DCBRP 2015

It is no secret that Americans are growing further apart – both physically and socially. As the industrial age made transportation easier and technology has made it easier to remain inside the home, human relationships have disintegrated. Now more than ever, people need places where they can gather freely, frequently, and with ease. The third […]

Less than 24 hours after my initial post about Alton Sterling (left) I’m coming back to add the name of Philando Castile (right). Another Black man killed by a scared officer.   second angle Watch the video here        Both men had a family, both were black, and both had a weapon. One had a

The sixth week in the program and it’s starting to get weird. Weird in a good way. When I go out and make my “anti-idling pitch” to people I always make sure to tell them I am from Southwest Detroit. That I am no stranger to the community and that I am really working for

This article is befitting since I am working with a program with high schoolers and we are in a couple of charter schools. There was some overlap in the schools we work at and that were listed in the article so it hit close to home. I kinda found the article on a wim but

http://www.nationalgeographic.com/taking-back-detroit/see-detroit.html This was one of the first articles that I came across in my search of interesting articles on Detroit. I was immediately wary of the title, “Tough, Cheap, and Real…. Detroit is cool again.” Upon clicking the link, I became prepared to read a banal article on how Detroit is making a recovery and

http://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/2016/03/10/last-detroit-woman-gets-running-water-years/81586390/ The title of my post is the title of the article that I read before I finally got started getting more involved with my internship. Fayette Coleman, a black, 66 year old woman hadn’t had running water for 3 years. I was appalled by the fact that this woman, this human being, had to

http://www.bls.gov/regions/midwest/news-release/areaemployment_detroit.htm The article I chose to write is about job growth and development in the Detroit.  Since I am a economics major, this is the type of statistical analysis that really interest me.  This article was published by the Bureau of Labor and Statistics and is about where the Job growth is in the city.

This article presents the fact that many neighborhoods in Detroit have not experienced or even had the opportunity to partake in the recent development in many other neighborhoods, like Downtown, Midtown, and Corktown. http://michiganradio.org/post/detroit-neighborhoods-not-part-citys-resurgence#stream/0 One of the most prominent topics of conversation in the city right now is that of gentrification. What development is “good” and how

I am a student at the University of Michigan, but first I am from Detroit. So when I see things like this, I get to thinking. How much is this really going to help the people they are researching directly? DCBRP’s work is hands on in the community and gets us working here directly. But when

http://www.detroitnews.com/story/opinion/columnists/nolan-finley/2016/06/29/gilbert-offers-big-vision-downtown/86540422/ The article I read was about how Dan Gilbert (the richest guy in Detroit who practically owns all of downtown) wants automobile companies to invest more money into the tech industry in Detroit.  He casually noted that it would cost GM about $1 billion to build a state-of-the-art tech facility to attract more young,