Tag: Michigan
Assistant Prosecutor Says Thanks by Giving Back to Detroit
By Scott Talley, Detroit Free Press
The date was Aug. 26, 1979. The venue was Cobo Hall. And a 17-year-old east-sider named Opolla Brown very...
Coaches vs. Racism aims to be about more than basketball
By Associated Press
The executive director of the Coaches vs. Racism campaign that brought men’s college basketball teams from Michigan and Prairie View A&M to...
Study: Poor, Low-Income Voters Comprised Over One-Third of Those Casting Ballots in 2020 Presidential...
By Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire Senior National Correspondent
Poor and low-income people accounted for more than a third of all voters overall in the...
COVID-19 creates dire US shortage of teachers, school staff
By JOCELYN GECKER, AP Media Writer
One desperate California school district is sending flyers home in students’ lunchboxes, telling parents it’s “now hiring.” Elsewhere, principals...
Met Opera to Stage Anthony Davis’ `X’ on Malcolm X in 2023
Associated Press
The Metropolitan Opera will present its second work by a Black composer, Anthony Davis’ “X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X,” just...