Bear Sanusi, owner of SOS Fitness

Get fit in Live6: Three local fitness centers offer a variety of workout options

Detroit's Livernois strip has long enjoyed a reputation as a center for fashion. But what if you want to look and feel great underneath the clothes you buy? The area is also starting to become a bit of a fitness hub as well.

Saving lives and delivering innovative care: When mobility and health care intersect

Applications for mobility innovation are as broad and as wide-reaching as the imagination. In Detroit, leaders in mobility and health care are beginning to speak the same language. 

Volunteers helping to build Freedom Path Park
Hundreds of volunteers gather to build brand new playground in northwest Detroit

More than 325 volunteers showed up to help build the 4,200-square-foot playground that includes a slither slide, climbing walls, monorail, musical panels, a zipline, picnic tables, and more.

Samantha Magdaleno
Samantha Magdaleno
The cast of Street Cred
Detroit kids learn skills and vie for internship in new youth reality show

Street Cred gives youth opportunities to learn and create with experts in various production elements, as well as receive mentorship. The winning youth will get an internship in the entertainment industry. 

David Hardin Jr., owner of Heavy Weight Cuts
How this classic barbershop is thriving amidst a changing West Village

It seems like a new business opens every month in the West Village. Heavy Weight Cuts, however, has been around for over 20 years. How has it and owner David Hardin Jr. survived in a changing neighborhood? 

Members of the Refugee Development Center's support group for refugee girls in Lansing.
How can we address Michigan students’ desperate need for behavioral health services?

One in five children is affected by mental illness, but getting students access to the mental health resources they need is a challenge.

Julia Cuneo, one of DRCC's founders, with kids
Detroit Radical Childcare Collective: Not your typical babysitters

Providing care for kids in family homes and at organized events, this group of progressive Detroiters is using a principle-driven platform to fill a gap in quality childcare needs for families.

Jewish millennials reconnect with their Detroit roots through social activism

A wave of young Jews in their 20s and 30s are moving to Detroit and the near suburbs to participate in a vibrant, place-based social justice movement. 

Mama Hanifa, education and outreach director of the Detroit Black Community Food Security Network, explaining the earth oven to a guest
Voices of Cody Rouge: three lessons from our time in the neighborhood

Cody Rouge taught us a lot over these last few months. Here are three lessons the rest of Detroit could learn from this resilient neighborhood. 

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