It's not just a design hub that Tanya Saldivar-Ali and her husband, Luis, are building on 18th Street — the Detroit couple is developing a construction pipeline to connect residents with sustainable careers. But it's the cutting-edge technology they are using to tell residents' stories that is capturing international attention.
Detroit firefighter Gary Ringer is connecting with national health experts to promote a better culture of health in his community, and wants local stations to be a part of that change: "As firefighters, we can do more than just putting the ‘wet stuff on the red stuff,’ we can play a more intricate role in the community we serve."
From Black Lives Matter to constitutional rights, here are the issues that matter most to young people this election year.
Juan Carlos Dueweke-Perez has come a long way from selling cheesecakes door-to-door in Southwest Detroit as a kid. Now the co-founder of Southwest Detroit Restaurant Week owns his own marketing agency and works toward bringing equity to minority- and immigrant-owned businesses: "I want to continue a legacy that doesn’t start or end with me.”
Detroit entrepreneur KaToya Scott has witnessed the joy her truck's ice cream can bring people, but she never expected her community to respond with an outpouring of support to help her business survive COVID-19 setbacks. "You don’t think people care and here are people saying ‘hey we see you.’ "
African Americans are now underrepresented in both COVID-19 cases and deaths. Still comprising just over 14% of the Michigan population, the two-week moving average for African American COVID cases was an estimated 9% in the first weeks of September, and the death rate has fallen to 12%.
Twelve years ago, a health scare prompted Harriet "Chef Bee" Brown to start "waging war with a fork" and launch a healthy catering company. She is just one of the entrepreneurs Detroit's nonprofit groups are working with to generate equitable opportunities through economic and workforce development in the city.
Providing Black farmers with land security was one of the reasons Jerry Hebron from Oakland Avenue Urban Farm, Tepfirah Rushdan from Keep Growing Detroit, and representatives from the Detroit Black Community Food Security Network (DBCFSN) D-Town Farm launched the GoFundMe campaign.
After the pandemic shut down schools, here's how Detroit organizations are stepping up to address inequities for local students.
The campaign comes at a time when the nonprofit has pivoted to help with COVID-19 response and amid new immigration policies that could have a significant effect on the local economy.
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