Former reality TV star Chandra London “Deelishis” Davis was reportedly attacked by her estranged fiancee over the weekend, causing her to jump out the window to seek safety. Davis, who battled for Flavor Flav’s heart on VH1’s Flavor of Love 2, was assaulted Sunday at her home in Franklin Hills, Mich.
A Black nurse in Michigan is suing her employer for not allowing her to touch a White baby. Tonya Battle is suing Hurley Medical Center in Flint, for not allowing her to touch one of the infants, after the baby’s father asked them to do so.
Confidence is very important, especially when you’re a thief trying to jack a luxury vehicle. A Michigan woman was able to pull off a heist that ended with her driving away from a car dealership in a Range Rover, Tuesday (Jan. 29), and all because she kept it cool.
School officials in Inkster, Mich. found a loaded handgun in a third grader’s possession at Daly Elementary, Friday (Jan. 25) morning. The school’s principal was notified at around 8:30 a.m. and the child, a young boy, was met at the school’s entrance. Within 30 minutes both the boy and the weapon had been removed from […]
Chicago has been getting tons of press for its massive homicide rate, which climbed to 500 at the end of last week, but Detroit has honed in on a similarly dreadful landmark. Mayor Dave Bing released the city’s homicide stats for 2012 and out of 461 death investigations, 411 were homicides.
President Obama has Jay-Z in his corner, and Mitt Romney has Kid Rock. The Romney campaign already adopted Rock’s “Born Free” track as its theme song, and now the Detroit native is totally on board with the Republican candidate, but it’s not really a big deal. “I’m just so fed up with political correctness and that […]
A Michigan man was killed in July, and today his family is seeking answers as to why police took his life, and why the investigation is taking so long to complete. Milton Hall, of Saginaw, was gunned down by police, following an incident in a convenience store. Hall was surrounded by cops, before being shot […]
Gabby Douglas is the youngster that’s been garnering the brunt of headlines for her Olympic feats, but boxer Claressa Shields is another teen deserving of recognition. The Michigan native grabbed the gold medal Thursday (Aug. 9) in a 19-12 victory against Nadezda Torlopova of Russia. At just 17-year-old, Shields dominated her 33-year-old opponent during the bout. […]
Michigan has become the latest state to introduce a museum chronicling racism in America. The Jim Crow Museum of Racist Memorabilia, in Big Rapids, Mich. features a host of artifacts large and small. According to curator, David Pilgrim, the $1.3 million gallery holds the largest number of historical antiques from the segregation era, including everything from […]
Today is Jon Connor‘s birthday, and in celebration of that the rising MC drops his new LP, The People’s Rapper hosted by Don Cannon. This project is composed completely of Eminem beats as the Flint, Michigan native goes for broke. Get a listen at the promising rapper after the jump.
As a city that has been under bankruptcy watch for quite some time now, denizens of Detroit were hardly shocked when news broke that their once glorious city currently embroiled in fiscal crisis is on the cusp of becoming a city entrenched in a battle for jobs. Official records show that the Motor City has […]
