The Detroit Area Pre-College Engineering Program (DAPCEP) awarded five Michiganders for their work in medicine and science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) at its inaugural awards fundraising Aug. 24. DAPCEP executive director Jason Lee said that as the state is advancing in STEM and medicine fields, it was appropriate for the organization to recognize current leaders who are advancing STEM a ...

DETROIT — The Detroit Department of Health and Wellness Promotion (DHWP) is reporting eight confirmed cases of West Nile Virus. All cases are adults who have received medical treatment.West Nile Virus is an arborvirus that is transmitted by mosquitoes. Most individuals infected with West Nile Virus experience no symptoms. A minority of patients develops symptoms that may include a fever, rash, headache, joi ...

By Hilda L. Solis Under President Obama’s leadership, the U.S. economy has rebounded. We’ve seen 29 straight months of job growth with a total of 4.5 million jobs created. While this is good news, the unemployment rate among African Americans in Metro Detroit is still too high. The fact is, we’re still fighting back from the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression. The economy is growing but it’s n ...

(GIN) – Riots erupted in Kenya’s touristic port city of Mombasa over the contract-style killing of a popular Muslim cleric who had many followers among the youth. Aboud Rogo Mohammed was murdered Aug. 27 by suspects traveling in a car that had been trailing his. The gunmen’s car suddenly sped up and shots were fired at the driver’s side of the imam’s vehicle. Rogo Mohammed died instantly while his wife, fat ...

Special to the Trice Edney News Wire from GIN Disturbing images of gun-toting police firing point blank at striking miners shocked South Africans and others around the world. Thirty four workers fell dead in the melee — the worst case of post-apartheid state-sponsored violence since 1994. The Marikana massacre, named after the U.K.-based Lonmin platinum mining complex, was denounced by labor leaders includi ...

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Crusade for America marchers link violence to ‘bad’ policies By Zenobia Jeffries The Michigan Citizen HIGHLAND PARK — “Stop the violence and save the vote” is the message Highland Park Pastor Rev. D. Alexander Bullock has set out to deliver to the masses. “In the community, we’re affected by gun violence and in politics, we’re affected by gangster politics and bullying,” Bullock told the Michigan Citizen du ...

Residents vent grievances to city officials over land grab By Zenobia Jeffries The Michigan Citizen DETROIT — During a listening session, held Aug. 22, about the city’s land sale process hosted by the Detroit Food Policy Council (DFPC), city officials told residents that the process was “convoluted” and that it’s likely “big projects” will be processed more quickly. “I hate to say it but money talks,” Rober ...

Several weeks ago Vice President Joe Biden appeared in Virginia before a group of supporters, a number of them African American, and said this of Republican Mitt Romney: “He is going to let the big banks once again write their own rules, unchain Wall Street. He is going to put y’all back in chains.” Republicans, and some Democrats, are accusing Biden of playing the race card. Were Biden’s remarks inappropri ...

By Hazel Trice Edney Trice Edney News Wire It is called the anthem of the civil rights movement, no doubt sung at every major march and rally during the 1960s — including at the March on Washington, Aug. 28, 1963, 49 years ago this week. A sure sign of progress was when President Lyndon B. Johnson used its words amid his Voting Rights speech before Congress March 15, 1965: “We shall overcome,” he declared t ...