There is a theory on Wall Street that goes something like this: If you follow the crowd and buy the hot investment of the day, chances are you’ll be scooping up shares when most others are about to sell. This natural tendency to buy when everyone is euphoric can have you buying at the wrong time and not buying when you should.Investors often jump...
The civil rights movement of the 60's might be over half a century in our rear view, but how far have we really come?
A nurse's case against a medical center in Flint, MI again reminds us that the society in which we live is hardly color blind.
Tonya Battle has filed a lawsuit against Hurley Hospital for being barred from...
The blues is about feeling. It's about locale. A state of mind. But mostly, it's about digging in, expressing pain, celebrating the sensual, mapping out life in a 12-bar structure. Grant Lyle might be playing the blues, but there's a progressive spirit that elevates his latest album, “So There,” to much higher ground. While far from p...
Some people just dream of success, while others wake up and make it happen. Count Eric Hardy as the latter.As president and CEO of w3r, Hardy oversees a progressive information technology consulting and staffing firm that provides infrastructure, integration and analytical services and support to a wide-spectrum of national businesses and...
Nailah Ellis (pronounced ni-E-luh) recalls as a youngster the reaction people had after tasting the homemade tea her father prepared during holidays or at family gatherings. Their animated glee was a dead giveaway that, indeed, the beverage was truly something special.
It began with Ellis’ great-grandfather, who was a master c...
Detroit Mayor Dave Bing and Bill Pulte, chairman of the Detroit Blight Authority and CEO of Pulte Capital Partners, unveiled their plans today for a public-private partnership that will become the cornerstone of the mayor’s next phase of blight removal for the city of Detroit. The pilot site of the newly formed authority is a recently cleared 1...
Photo credit: LON JOHNSON, the favorite to become chairman of the Michigan Democratic Party who is touting himself as a change agent, sat down on Monday with Bankole Thompson, editor of the Michigan Chronicle, for an exclusive interview ahead of the party’s convention this weekend at Cobo Hall. The party faithful, election and p...
With less than thirty days left to decide on whether or not Detroit will have an emergency manager, Governor Rick Snyder is set to address the media in an afternoon round table to discuss the city's finances.
Snyder is not expected to make the official announcement, but rather will offer an update on where things currently...
DETROIT—After serving multiple roles with Mayor Dave Bing’s administration, Deputy Mayor Kirk Lewis is headed back to the private sector.
Lewis served as corporate affairs officer before leaving the administration in 2010 to seek other opportunities. A year later, Bing rehired Lewis as his chief of staff and promoted him to...
Blended families are no longer an anomoly in our culture. As such, it is becoming more and more necessary for families to learn to work together and get along to create a postive environement for the children. Jada Pinkett Smith is a pro at managing a blended family, and she had a few choice words to a "friend" who is acting out...
