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Meet the innovative students who are helping to shape the future of accessible design. “I think products are about people,” says Taylor Spencer, who designed an accessible cookware set. “[...] if it doesn't make a person feel like a person, because they can't use it, then what did you make it for?”
Big changes at this West Side Detroit park have made it an easier more attractive place for residents to gather. And more renovations are on the horizon.
A nonprofit connected to Detroit's Church of the Messiah is helping mentor young entrepreneurs and working to empower local youth on the City's East Side.
West Warren Ave is about to get a little more colorful due to a collaboration between area artists and Cody Rouge youth.
In the age of influencers, social media is filled with product and food reviews, entrepreneurism, and beauty tips. Some influencers, however, chose to center their content on their location, and Detroit certainly gives them some content to work with. Here are 5 Instagram influencers who regularly share what makes Motor City so special, how their experiences prompt them to share their perspective with followers, and how they deal with haters.
A Northwest Detroit organization is surveying the neighborhood to find out how they and other partnering groups can better serve the community.
From food assistance to vaccine awareness, these Detroit community development organizations having been doing their best to adapt to COVID-19 as the pandemic evolves.
Young people have played a vital role in the development of this new community center in Southwest Detroit.
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