A white man has been sentenced to at least four years in prison for shooting at a Black teenager who came to his Detroit home asking for directions to school, CBS reports. Brennan Walker, 14, wasn’t hurt. He told police he missed a school bus on April 12, 2018 and knocked on Jeffery Zeigler’s door to ask […]
DETROIT (AP) — An anonymously written letter led Michigan inspectors to find badly decomposed remains of 11 infants hidden in a ceiling compartment of a shuttered Detroit funeral home, police say. Inspectors with the Michigan Department of Licensing and Regulatory Affairs found the remains Friday at the former Cantrell Funeral Home, just hours after receiving […]
DETROIT (AP) — A police officer and two paramedics failed to help a man who was convulsing for more than an hour and eventually died from cocaine toxicity at a Detroit-area jail, a prosecutor said Monday as she filed involuntary manslaughter charges against the trio. William Marshall was in custody for drug possession when he […]
A new exhibit at the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History in Detroit honors the legacy of legendary songstress Aretha Franklin.
Today in a city courtroom as the family of slain victim, Danyna Gibson watched on in shock, 16-year old Tanaya Lewis who has been charged with first-degree murder was granted a Psychiatric exam Detroit News reports. Lewis is accused of stabbing Gibson twice in the chest, once in the heart, and twice in the back for […]
A Snapchat has cost a Detroit police officer his job. According to the Detroit News, before starting his shift on Saturday, Sean Bostwick took a selfie, but he chose add the caption, “another night to Rangel up these zoo animals.” (He probably meant “wrangle,” but we all have a little typo here and there.) The police […]
According to TheDetroitNews, in an FBI crime data report released this morning, Detroit has moved up to the 2nd most violent big city in America. The report concludes that murders in the motor city have actually decreased since the FBI’s last Uniform Crime Report in 2017. In that report Detroit sat at a staggering 303 […]
A new show at Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History in Detroit aims to celebrate Aretha Franklin’s life in an intimate display dubbed a “tribute to the Queen of Soul.” The estate-approved “Think: A Tribute to the Queen of Soul” arrives at the museum this Tuesday and will exhibit until January 21st, 2019. “This is an opportunity […]
Seniors at North Farmington High School in Michigan have a tradition where they take ID photos dressed as celebrities and popular film and TV characters. This year they shared their creative ID’s on Twitter with the hashtag #NFID19. Check them out below: https://twitter.com/MKashat_/status/1040236881856872451 https://twitter.com/__mommacee/status/1040252220946698243 https://twitter.com/justinmayz/status/1040268734055804930 Which one is your favorite? READ MORE STORIES ON BLACKAMERICAWEB.COM: […]
WARREN, Mich. (AP) — A 16-year-old girl died Wednesday after being stabbed twice in the chest by another teenage girl during a fight apparently over a boy at a suburban Detroit high school, police said. Warren Police Commissioner William Dwyer said the deadly clash between the two “straight-A students” took place in a Fitzgerald High […]
Detroit’s public school students are experiencing a health predicament and here’s the solution: They can’t drink the water. The water fountains are dry because drinking water has been shut off at all of Detroit’s 106 schools serving more than 40,000 students since officials discovered the water in 16 schools contained high levels of lead or […]
DETROIT (AP) — Thousands of Detroit public schools students were told Tuesday to drink from district-supplied water coolers or bottled water on the first day of classes, after the drinking fountains were shut off because of contaminants in some water fixtures. Superintendent Nikolai Vitti said last week that elevated levels of lead or copper […]
