American Girl has emerged as one of the top businesses of its sort, selling millions of its beloved dolls and books aimed at young girls since debuting in 1986. This summer the company will reveal its latest doll, a girl from the civil rights era named Melody Ellison, as reported by CBS News. https://twitter.com/MelodyBodette/status/701943128249516032 The […]

Judge Vonda Evans of Detroit made a compassionate speech about racism and police brutality before sentencing former Michigan police officer William Melendez to prison Tuesday for the beating of an unarmed Black man last year.

Garner's family said she placed her 11-year-old son in the basketball program to keep him off the streets. Sadly, it was the mother who became a victim of street violence.

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After Oprah took to Twitter to share a video detailing how she dropped 26 pounds using Weight Watchers while still eating bread daily, the company’s shares catapulted more than 20 percent, and rose to $13.29 per share.

The Detroit Public School system was denied their request for a temporary restraining order positioned to stop teachers from engaging in so-called “sick-outs” protests over the poor conditions at city schools. The Monday strike down of the injunction was the second time a judge has sided with the teachers in their fight to bring changes […]

The owner of the four pit bulls who mauled a 4-year-old boy to death last week is now facing murder charges.

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A man in Detroit seems to have taken his fear of spiders too far. While filling up his car at a gas station in Detroit,…

A 23-year-old father says desperation led him to rob a Michigan bank so he could pay for his daughter's chemotherapy treatments.

Residents of a predominantly Black suburb in Detroit are up in arms after discovering racist political flyers sprinkled on their lawns