Yesterday's historic conviction of former Detroit mayor Kwame Kilpatrick sent city residents in a tweeting frenzy. Taking to social media to express their thoughts on the verdict, Detroiters created a whirlwind of response. Quickly making #kwame a trending topic, some expressed profound disappointment while others celebrated what...
Barbara McQuade, the United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Michigan, whose office prosecuted one of the largest public corruption cases in Detroit’s history that was dubbed “the Kilpatrick Enterprise,” that resulted in a guilty verdict by a federal jury today, told journalists at her office this afternoon that there are some pending c...
I recall almost a decade ago when former mayor Kwame Kilpatrick at the height of his powers walked up to me at the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History and asked “Can a brother get a good word from you?” My response was, “Mr. Mayor, give me something good to write about.”Apparently, the mayor was concerned that he wasn’t getting f...
Health and wellness are areas that tend to take a backseat to the stresses of everyday living. We get so caught up in the “hustle and bustle” of our routines that we forget to take care of what matters most. We tend to stop and only pay attention to our bodies when something is wrong. Yet, prevention goes a long way to ensure that we...
It’s that time! The highly anticipated new Tyler Perry movie “Temptation: Confessions of a Marriage Counselor” will be out this month on March 29. If you have been living under a rock and missed the trailer for the new flick, it stars Jurnee Smollet-Bell (The Great Debaters), Lance Gross ("House of Payne"), Robbie Jones ("90210"), Kim Kardashian,...
On Thursday, Feb. 28, the Detroit Regional Chamber hosted the 2013 Detroit Policy Conference at the MotorCity Casino Hotel. The 2013 conference hosted over 450 entrepreneurs, small business owners, major corporations and civic partners, and addressed hot button issues for Detroit as well as opportunities for urban and suburban...
In 1995, Montell Jordan had a huge hit with “This Is How We Do It.” It remained No. 1 on the national R&B and Pop charts for an amazing seven weeks, and he had a number of additional successes.
He announced in 2010 that he was leaving R&B and moving into church work and gospel music. In 2011 he had an album titled...
American Coney Island, home of the iconic Detroit Coney Dog, recently opened its first out-of-state location at the D Las Vegas. As part of the dramatic transformation taking place at the new downtown property, the D is excited to bring a taste of Detroit to the Fremont Street Experience in downtown Las Vegas.
A favorite of...
Hello, Detroit!
I’d like to think Emily T. Gail and I are kindred spirits. To date, my entire publishing career has been steeped in her simple slogan: “Say nice things about Detroit.” History tells us there were plenty of terrible (but true) things to say about Detroit in the 1970s when she launched her campaign. This was a post...
