56 year old Grammy winning singer Anita Baker is a wanted woman in Detroit. And she found out while watching television after seeing a report about authorities looking for her. TMZ reports: According to court records, the bench warrant was issued yesterday after the singer failed to show up to court for a hearing in […]
DETROIT (AP) — Detroit presented its first full road map for leaving bankruptcy Friday, outlining an elaborate plan to restructure $18 billion in debt, demolish thousands of blighted homes and invest in the broken-down infrastructure that has made the city a symbol of urban decay. If approved by a judge, the wide-ranging proposal would sharply […]
The 5-year-old Detroit girl who was abducted by her mother was found in Texas. MyFOXDetroit reports: She had been missing since Monday, Feb. 3, when she was picked up from Detroit Community School by her mother, Carmela Jackson, who is only allowed four-hour monthly, supervised visits. Zoie’s substitute teacher was unaware and released Zoie when […]
MyFOXDetroit is reporting police are looking for a missing 5-year-old girl named Zoie Jackson. According to the site, Zoie was picked up from the Detroit Community School on Monday afternoon by her mother, Carmela Jackson. Carmela is only allowed hour-long supervised visits four times per month with Zoie. Unfortunately, Zoie’s substitute teacher was not aware […]
Aretha Franklin is back, in good health and ready to rock and roll. After recovering from an undisclosed illness, The Queen of Soul returns to performing at the Motor City Casino in Detroit on December 21st and at Radio City Music Hall on January 17 and 18th and she wants her fans to know she’s […]
DETROIT (AP) — Detroit police say a bus driver is hospitalized after a man threw a liquid believed to be bleach in his face. Officer Adam Madera tells The Associated Press the driver was attacked after pulling up Sunday at a stop near the former state fairgrounds along Woodward Avenue, the city’s main north-south thoroughfare. […]
Roland Martin walks with Detroit Free Press’ Rochelle Riley about the election of the first white mayor in 40 years in the city of Detroit.
DETROIT (AP) — When Mike Duggan recites the oath of office in January as Detroit’s first white mayor in four decades, he may — in a way — give the eulogy to a period of racial divide that has defined much of the city’s past. Unofficial general election results Tuesday night showed Duggan defeating Wayne […]
DETROIT (AP) – A 5-year-old Detroit boy called 911, getting emergency workers to his home only minutes after his mother began having a seizure. Akua McClain calls her son, Demonte Reilley, her “protector” and “guardian angel.” Demonte woke up Tuesday to his mother having a seizure. He tells WDIV-TV he “was scared,” but “wasn’t anymore […]
Dr. Cornell West is lashing out at both MSNBC and Reverend Al Sharpton. West called MSNBC the Rent-a-Negro network. And he said that Reverend Al is on the Obama plantation. And, of course, all this was said on his homeboy Tavis Smiley’s radio show. Tavis and Cornell have become the old men up in the […]
DETROIT (AP) — Lawyers jammed a courtroom Wednesday for the first hearing in Detroit’s bankruptcy case, as a judge set out to decide whether anxious city retirees can slow down the process with lawsuits in other courts. Detroit is the largest U.S. city to file for bankruptcy protection. U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Steven Rhodes was not […]
Just days after Detroit filed for bankruptcy, Beyonce’s “Mrs. Carter” world tour rolled through the Motor City on Saturday, with the singer dedicating a segment of her show to lifting spirits. The 31-year-old belted Sam Cooke’s classic “Change is Gonna Come” as a video montage of Detroit themes played behind her all-girl band. Among the […]
