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Archive for the ‘Community’ Category

Wednesday, March 27, 2013

This satellite image shows blue-green algae on Lake Erie in 2011, the worst year for algal blooms on record. (Courtesy Essex Region Conservation Authority)

Maddening Algae on Lake Erie

Tuesday, March 19, 2013

Zebra mussels on barrel that was pulled from the Saginaw River in November 2011. The dock is in Essexville.

Lakes Changing Too Fast To Predict

Monday, March 18, 2013

Guilt Over White Privilege?

Thursday, February 21, 2013

The BBC did a documentary on Detroit's woes in 2009 and spoke to Sandra Hines. She can carry a conversation across the spectrum of injustice from police brutality to emergency managers to housing discrimination.

You Wrecked My House

Tuesday, February 19, 2013

Photo by Susan Frikken, September 15, 2012 on Belle Isle during the Tour de Troit bicycling event. Young whites are more and more visible in greater downtown Detroit, often on bikes. The expression of triumph for some comes from the need to prove to other whites 'look. I can go wherever I want and not get mugged.'

Unease With White Return To Detroit

Wednesday, February 13, 2013

(Demolition of Hudson's at 5:47 pm, October 24, 1998. . Photo courtesy of Lowell Boilleau/ DetroitYes.com) Dennis Archer pressed the button that pushed the plunger detonating 2,700 lbs. of explosives. The land has been vacant ever since. Archer has "no regrets." This reporter was in New York that day as well as September 11, 2001. The World Trade Center was destroyed by enemies. We destroyed Hudson's by ourselves.

Archer & Schostak on Hudson’s

Wednesday, February 13, 2013

Looking north on Woodward with Broderick Tower in background and Hudson's to the right. (Photo taken 1959)

Racism at Hudson’s

Wednesday, February 13, 2013

Tom Shurtleff of Farmington Hills and Akua Budu-Watkins of Northwest Detroit sitting down for an interview on W. Willis, September 29, 2012.

Peace Between Blacks and Whites?

Thursday, January 10, 2013

Library of Congress archive photo by Alfred T. Palmer, 1942

Fixing Climate Change Could Shrink Economy

Wednesday, October 24, 2012