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Planet Detroit

Planet Detroit helps you get smarter about the environment in Detroit and Michigan. Planet Detroit’s stories and weekly newsletter focus on explanatory, solutions-based and investigative reporting, and a deep commitment to community engagement around local environmental issues. Planet Detroit’s mission is to raise awareness about Metro Detroit’s environmental and public health issues, hold powerful entities accountable and help our audience connect with their local environment and take action to protect the health of their communities.

Artist Cassie Thornton is giving Detroiters alternative credit reports, because subprime isn’t a character trait
Artist Cassie Thornton is helping Detroiters create alternative credit reports that show a more holistic picture than just a low
Challenge yourself at a discussion on neighborhood relations between Black Detroiters and new white residents 
How can white residents who are new to Detroit responsibly enter historically Black communities, and how can longtime residents cope
Through the Southwest Detroit TimeBank, neighbors spend thousands of hours helping each other
Southwest Detroit's Unity in our Community TimeBank, where more than 800 members have spent thousands of hours trading time and
Detroit’s Checker Bar fired a white bartender after a Black customer alleged racially-motivated mistreatment
Detroit's Checker Bar is quietly dealing with a racial discrimination complaint, and their response looks very different than Founder's Brewing
At Detroit’s Coup D’etat boutique, Angela Wisniewski suits up for a personal rebellion
Think of Coup, located inside New Center’s Cadillac Place building, as an ever-evolving art object with a moodboard for a
The best things to do each week in Detroit this November
Here's more than 70 recommendations for spending your November out on the town in Detroit, from art events to the
Even in her most private moments, Aretha Franklin was always a queen
The Queen Next Door, a coffee table book of photographs by Linda Solomon, shows Aretha Franklin's life off-stage when she
At this high-achieving Detroit elementary school, parents and teachers fear a state reading mandate will still leave kids behind
By Damon Mitchell On a Friday afternoon earlier this month, Gwendolyn Harris recited vowel sounds from her brightly decorated classroom
Painter Sydney G. James is making her mark on Detroit’s art scene — and celebrating the black women that inspire...
If you haven’t memorized the name Sydney G. James, it’s time to take notes. James, a native Detroiter and College
A program to cut down back taxes for Detroiters may be too little, too late
At first glance, the Pay as You Stay program -- which would dramatically cut down on back taxes for low-income