Detroit was once the richest industrial city in America — a manufacturing titan that built bombers for WWII and created the ...

Write-in candidates won in the three districts that had no candidates for the Detroit Board of Police Commissioners listed on the Nov. 4 ballot.

A charismatic orator in the 1960s, he called for armed resistance to white oppression. As a Muslim cleric, he was convicted ...

Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin, aka H. Rap Brown, chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, has died at 82. Al-Amin ...

What happened to Eugene Williams is, to Deaunata Holman, “one of the most heinous crimes that could ever be committed.” Like Holman, Williams was a Black kid growing up on the South Side of Chicago.

DETROIT – Mary Sheffield has won the 2025 Detroit mayoral race, defeating Solomon Kinloch Jr. Sheffield will be the first woman in history to be elected mayor of Detroit. Detroit City Council ...

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Detroit City Council President Mary Sheffield made history Tuesday night, Nov. 4, winning the Detroit mayoral election and becoming the first woman to be elected to the city's top office. Sheffield ...

Standing before the crumbling walls of the old Packard Plant last year, I couldn’t help but feel the weight of the past pressing through the silence. Once the roaring heart of American industry, it ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Mary Sheffield won the race for Detroit mayor on Tuesday, defeating Solomon Kinloch Jr. to become the first woman elected to lead the city. Sheffield, the Detroit City Council ...

DETROIT (WXYZ) — Detroit voters will decide between City Council President Mary Sheffield and Pastor Solomon Kinloch in Tuesday's mayoral election, marking a ...