Detroit. July 23, 1967. Twelfth Street and Clairmount. 3:15 a.m. Police raid a speakeasy. An uprising breaks out. Rioting. Looting. Anger. Frustration. Fear. Forty-three dead; 1,189 injured. Five days. A city forever changed. Changed in the way you’ve heard – accelerated flight from the city, abandonment by a generation of Detroiters – but also in […]
Article · June 26, 2017 by Amy Haimerl
The Detroit Development Fund, a Detroit-based small business lender, is releasing a report that highlights lessons in impact investing for community organizations, funders and others. Four years ago, this block was dark. The streetlights were out and all of the storefronts sat empty. Residents living in apartments above the shops came and went, hoping one day […]
Article · May 2, 2017 by Amy Haimerl
Art Deco design figures prominently in the skyline of downtown Detroit. Photo by Anthony Barchock. Detroit is the cradle of American design. The region started as the place for cast iron stoves, railcars and bicycles at the turn of the 19th century, and then became the hotbed of the automobile, industrial design and midcentury modern furniture. That’s right: Eero Saarinen and Charles and Ray Eames, designers of such icons […]
Article · August 25, 2016 by Amy Haimerl
Knight Arts Challenge Detroit award winner Shara Nova. “Stop texting and driving!” Shara Nova shouts The My Brightest Diamond lead singer is sitting on her hotel veranda in Savannah, Georgia, and she can see a man driving past with his phone in his hand. And that, she says, is a huge annoyance. She is thinking […]
Article · April 15, 2016 by Amy Haimerl
Photo: NorthernLights.MN, a St. Paul Knight Arts Challenge winner ATTEND AN INFORMATION SESSION ON THE KNIGHT ARTS CHALLENGE IN YOUR CITY: “Upcoming workshops give behind-the-scenes info on Knight Arts Challenge” by Marika Lynch on Knight Blog, 3/25/2016 Shane Wynn had an idea. Well, actually, the Akron, Ohio, resident has a lot of ideas. So many […]
Article · April 4, 2016 by Amy Haimerl
Photos by Justin Milhouse/Courtesy Louder Than a Bomb: The Michigan Youth Poetry Festival. The youth poets of Michigan have something to say. “My city taught me what it means to survive, despite.” – Ashley Carson, 18, Citywide Poets They aren’t spending their Saturday night in a Detroit auditorium just to talk about the Kardashians or other trifling things. They are here on Wayne State University’s campus to […]
Article · March 29, 2016 by Amy Haimerl
Above: Heritage Works took 10 current or recent ensemble members to Dakar, Senegal, with funding from the Knight Arts Challenge Detroit People’s Choice Award. Photo credit Cary Junior II via Heritage Works on Flickr. When Cary Junior arrived in Dakar, Senegal, last December, his first concern was the bugs. “It was late at night,” he says. […]
Article · March 14, 2016 by Amy Haimerl