detroit
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Detroit Nonprofit Upset After Bounce House Company Refused It Service, Citing Crime in the City
The director of a Detroit nonprofit is trying to wrap his head around the fact that he was denied delivery of a specially requested bounce house all because of the city in which the organization is located. According to WXYZ, Deon Mullen, the director of the Franklin Wright Settlement, which has been in business on…
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Kwame Kilpatrick Files Appeal, Says He Doesn’t Owe City of Detroit a Damn Thing
Kwame Kilpatrick, the disgraced former mayor of Detroit, is asking a federal judge to wipe his $1.5 million debt clean. The embattled politician, who is currently serving a 28-year sentence in Oklahoma for corruption, claims that he cost the city of Detroit no financial losses during his tenure, reports the Detroit Free Press. Kilpatrick was…
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A Couple of Thoughts for the White Man From Detroit Who Hates Black People Protesting the National Anthem
A metro-Detroit business owner is catching some serious heat for a racist Facebook post in which he used the n-word to call out a black couple protesting the national anthem at a Detroit Lions game. In the post, David Doptis—who, according to WXYZ Detroit, owns a business called Restaurant Liquidation Auctions in Pontiac, Mich.—attached a…
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Kid Rock, the Former Black-Culture Vulture and Now Trump Supporter, to Open New Detroit Arena Amid Protest
Some of you may remember Kid Rock; he’s the white rapper from Detroit not named Eminem who leeched off black culture until he realized that he could make more money being a redneck and then abandoned rapping for some kind of singing career. Many of you don’t remember him, and that’s fine, too, considering that…
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Watch: Detroit’s Algee Smith Loves the Unspoken Bond of Black Folks
Black and Proud is a video series on The Root that focuses on the pride that our favorite black celebrities, tastemakers and thought leaders feel about being black. Many of them talk about our resilience and strength throughout history, some talk about our undeniable talents, while others mention our dance skills, dopeness and more. Full…
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Watch: John Boyega’s Blackness Sits Like a Crown Atop His Head
Black and Proud is a video series on The Root that focuses on the pride that our favorite black celebrities, tastemakers and thought leaders feel about being black. Many of them talk about our resilience and strength throughout history, some talk about our undeniable talents, while others mention our dance skills, dopeness and more. Whatever…
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Why Detroit’s 1st Black Female Deputy Police Chief, Now 86, Says She Won’t Be Seeing Detroit
Surprise! Yet another black person eschews on-screen black-death porn. This time it is Mary Jarrett Jackson, the first woman to serve as deputy police chief in Detroit, the city for which the new film in theaters is named. “I haven’t seen the movie. I choose not to,” Jackson, 86, told HuffPost. “The riots were…
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I Walked Out of Detroit Because WTF, Man?!
I had a different title for this review. I tried to be poetic and dress up my disdain for this movie with not-so-pointed words. It was “Detroit Makes America Face Its Racist Demons With Unrelenting Torture,” but my managing editor, Danielle Belton, challenged me to be as real as I was in this review. So…
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I Understand Why The DETROIT Movie Was Made, But I Can't Recommend That You See It
Despite living away from my native Detroit for nearly a decade and a half, I stay connected to the city through frequent visits to my immediate family and through friends on social media. As of late, I’ve heard quite a few mixed-to-negative feelings about the upcoming DETROIT film from native Detroiters, so my first goal…
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Watch: John Boyega Says Police Brutality Isn’t Just an American Problem
John Boyega is one of the stars of Kathryn Bigelow’s latest film, Detroit, which focuses on the real-life tragic torturing of young black men in the Algiers Motel in Detroit in 1967. Boyega plays a young security guard who protects a grocery store from looters, and his character walks the thin and flimsy line between…