Some fans braved the cold and wintry elements during Christmas week to take in some hot high school basketball action in the warm confines of Renaissance High School. The fourth annual Detroit Public School League Holiday Hoops Classic held Dec. 26 and 27 at Renaissance featured DPS High Schools against other prep squads from the metro Detroit area. In eight of the contests, the PSL was victorious seven tim ...

All over the country this week, schools, churches, universities and other community groups will be celebrating Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s birthday in many different ways. ...

Your quality of life is what you make it. You get to decide what’s important for you. Many people set goals in very specific areas, such as losing weight, watching less television, exercising more, learning something new, dropping bad habits, etc. ...

YMCA’s Smart Fitness certified personal trainer Bridget Porter launched Body Boot Camp for people who need to get in shape for the new year. Porter is anticipating a great response with the beginning of this year’s program. ...

Reggie Reg Davis recently opened a family restaurant in honor of his family — in particular, his deceased aunt who created a healthy diet for herself and her family. ...

My daughter and I started attending what I consider to be a phenomenal church. What makes this place so unique and one of the fastest-growing spiritual institutions in the country is its pastor and his “now” leadership. He’s well-versed on the Bible and articulates each verse in a way that relates to the issues of today. His passion, compassion and love of God reek from the pulpit. It is a come-as-you-are w ...

A special evening honoring filmmaker Julie Dash, director of the acclaimed “The Rosa Parks Story” (which premiered at the Detroit Film Theatre in 2002), takes place Jan. 24 at the Detroit Institute of Arts. During the evening, which is organized in cooperation with the Wayne State University Department of Communication, Dash will introduce her 1991 classic “Daughters of the Dust,” a portrait of the Gullah c ...

Artist Village, located on Lahser Road on Detroit’s west side, has the longest running open mic poetry club in Detroit. ...

Eleven-time Detroit Music Award winner Nadir Omowale presents Nadir’s Electric Lounge: A Multimedia Funk Experience and live concert recording Feb. 2 at NextWave Media Lab, 950 Stephenson Hwy., in Troy. Showtime is at 8 p.m. ...

When then-National Newspaper Publishers Association Chairman Danny Bakewell, Sr. asked me to emcee the Black Press Week luncheon at the National Press Club in 2011, I had no idea I would be witnessing history. At the urging of Wilmington Journal publisher Mary Alice Thatch, the NNPA decided to launch a national campaign to win pardons for the Wilmington Ten, a group of activists who were falsely convicted a ...