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In case you didn’t know so, it’s so cold in the D and it’s never heating up.

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People attempting to smuggle contraband, drugs and other items into prison is hardly a new trend. An innovative, yet foolish, Detroit man landed himself into a pile of struggle after he was arrested for allegedly attempting to throw a drug and contraband-stuffed football into a prison yard.

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Christin Howard, a 20-year-old openly gay man was enjoying the festivities at an annual Detroit gay pride festival when he says he was the victim of an unprovoked attack which left him physically and emotionally scarred.

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Eminem isn’t just a rapper who amasses millions of dollars, he’s also a patron who recently raised over $17,000 for a Detroit charity that aids seniors and their families.

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Chokwe Lumumba, the radical Black activist who rose to become mayor of Jackson, Miss., is dead at age 66. Lumumba was just the second Black mayor of the southern city, and one of the most visible members of the Black revolutionary movement to hold political office of a major city. Mayor Lumumba died on Tuesday […]

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The house that former Detroit mayor Kwame Kilpatrick built to destroy is exploring the possibility of auctioning off storied items in the country’s biggest African-American museum in attempt to even out the city’s $18B debt.

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Police in Grosse Pointe, Mich., a suburb of Detroit, have been targeting black men during routine stops and ordering them to perform humiliating acts. The cops added to the embarrassment by taking cellphone photos and video of the men, then texting them to their friends. Now, Grosse Pointe Park officials are investigating this unusual case […]

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Last week, residents of Flint, Mich. elected into city council seats four individuals with checkered pasts. The twist is that two of the new council members are convicted felons, including one man who served time for second-degree murder.

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Detroit police are investigating a violent shooting episode that has left three people dead and seven wounded. The shooting took place Wednesday (Nov. 6) night at Al’s Barbershop, and a person of interest in now in custody.

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With just two months since the tragic death of former Florida A&M student Jonathan Ferrell, another Black person seeking help after an auto accident was shot and killed. Renisha McBride, a Detroit teenager, was shot and killed after authorities say she may have been looking for medical assistance in an outlying suburb.

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Since the start of his long and successful career, Eminem has attracted attention for his controversial and sometimes homophobic lyrics. With the release of the “Rap God” single, Slim Shady finds himself explaining once more why homophobia plays such a large role in his musical output.

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Since the former mayor of Detroit, Kwame Kilpatrick treated the Motor City like his own personal paradise (and paid a hefty price for it as well), anything resembling his likeness at the city’s helm would ultimately rub the people the wrong way.