Black Women Rock’s featured show at the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History has become one of Detroit’s premier annual cultural events, an electrifying evening of music organized by the Motor City’s globally celebrated poet jessica Care moore. ...

Esther Collins, a Detroit resident and quilt artist, knows the value of the fine arts. She’s been sewing for over 20 years and quilting for eight of those years. Her passion was on display March 1 with the opening of the “Right On! Quilt Exhibition” and unveiling of the community quilt at the Carr Center in downtown Detroit. ...

Love. Trust. Betrayal. Envy. All are the makings of a good drama. And we all love drama — especially teens. On March 14-15, local teens from Teen HYPE (Helping Youth by Providing Education) will demonstrate how drama’s done in its ninth annual play, “Miseducation,” inspired by the 1998 album “The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill.” ...

After a two-year drought against the Catholic High School League (CHSL), the Operation Friendship Championship has returned to the Detroit Public School League (PSL). Both Pershing’s boys and King’s girls had well-earned victories, while Cass Tech gained a split in their matches against CHSL opponents. ...

Sitting in the Detroit One Coney Island on Woodward, mind snacking over black coffee and tuna (passing on the Coneys), I marvel at the intersecting life patterns of Rev. Al Sharpton, community activist Agnes Hitchcock and myself. In years bygone, I had conflict with both. ...

Gov. Snyder has declared a state of financial emergency in the city of Detroit. He says no satisfactory plan exists to resolve it. At a town hall address, March 1, at the Detroit Public Television studio, the governor said very little action was taken on the Consent Agreement city officials entered into with the state last April to solve the city’s deficit. “Today is the day to call all hands on deck,” Snyd ...

Detroit School of Arts students was recently invited to Carnegie Hall, but there is one problem: Lack of funding. Detroit School of Arts was recently awarded $2.5 million from The Knight Foundation. However, the University of Michigan delegates how the money is to be spent. U-M officials disperse the money over a five-year period. The students have only received $10,000 from the grant, which is divided betw ...

Within days after the Michigan National Action Network (NAN) intervened, Hurley Medical Center in Flint quickly settled a lawsuit filed by an African American nurse, Tonya Battle, against the hospital after she was not allowed to care for a white baby. ...

Like many big city folks, Detroiters enjoy wearing their pride — literally. Walking around midtown and downtown, you’re sure to see all kinds of T-shirts representing “the D.” Detroit Snob is one that stands out among the many, with its rhinestone letters. ...

The art of the hip hop mixtape is to bring together new artists and new sounds for listeners to experience. Detroit-based artist DJ LaJedi has released a new mixtape on the Internet that has gained worldwide attention. Bringing together women hip hop artists from around the globe, “World Hip Hop Women: From The Sound Up” is helping change the perception of how women can participate in hip hop. ...