Solutions Journalism
The Joe Louis Greenway could transform Detroit. What about the neighborhoods around it?
Midwest Detroit residents hope the Joe Louis Greenway will catalyze positive changes that stretch beyond the path’s boundaries and onto…
The Mendota House: Generational wealth and inheritance in Detroit
Like many Black Detroiters, people in my family dream of creating wealth and passing it down through the generations.
Forging a fruitful life: Family and education in Detroit
Once they individually finished their bachelor's degrees, my parents hit the ground running, got jobs, had a few kids, and…
Homebound from Honduras: Economic opportunity in and out of Detroit
I always left Detroit for other opportunities. But I always came back.
This program trains Detroiters for in-demand jobs with livable wages — and fast
The Detroit Training Center works with employers to offer job training programs for skills that are in high demand, with…
How Building Community Value puts local development into the hands of Detroiters
Building Community Value's Detroit real estate course gives Black developers skills to navigate an industry that's historically shut them out.
Tribal communities in Michigan struggle to get justice for missing and murdered Indigenous people
Nangonhs-Ba Massey's death is part of an ongoing epidemic of violence against Indigenous women.
It took a group of Black farmers to start fixing Detroit’s land ownership problem
The Detroit Black Farmer Land Fund is tackling an entrenched problem in urban farming: the disparity in land acquisition between…