Brandon Powell and Jalen Nailor have both scored touchdowns in each of the Minnesota Vikings’ first three games this season, marking the first time since 2018 that two players have done so in the NFL.
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Former pro hoopster now counsels other athletes
Val Whiting, a certified mental performance coach, works with athletes at all levels to enhance their performance and promote self-compassion.
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Detroit’s new all-Black sports talk station launches May 16
Detroit’s WXYT 1270 AM is set to launch Sports Rap Radio, an all-Black sports talk station, on May 16, featuring local Black voices and a sales team, with the goal of providing coverage of Black and brown Major League Baseball players.
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The Spencer Haywood story continues: Back to basics in Detroit
A continuation of a series delving further into the little known story of Spencer Haywood.
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Detroit’s poor struggle to keep the water on amidst coronavirus crisis
When the coronavirus arrived, many of these households were simply unable to follow the oft-repeated directions to engage in regular hand washing.
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Children not spared by pandemic
The Michigan Health Department reported that Skylar Herbert is the youngest person in Michigan to die of the disease.
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‘Malice at the Palace’ shadowed Pistons’ contributions
Over the years, the Detroit Pistons have brought several significant, largely good, if unrecognized, changes that transformed the NBA on and off the court.
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‘There’s no city like Detroit’
If you ever lived and worked there for any amount of time, and especially if you are Detroit born and made like this columnist, no matter where you are, you carry ‘The D’ with a strong sense of pride
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WATCH: Funeral for Aretha Franklin, Queen of Soul
The star-studded line up of speakers and entertainers to honor the late Aretha Franklin includes Steve Wonder, Jennifer Hudson and former President Bill Clinton, among many others.
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Paying our last respects to Aretha
Aretha Franklin wasn’t called “The Queen of Soul” for being a one-hit wonder. Franklin died last week of pancreatic cancer at age 76 in her Detroit home. Despite her worldwide fame, she never forgot her Motor City roots, which were grounded at the church of her late father, Rev. C.L. Franklin. She taught herself to […]
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‘Detroit’ movie screening: personal reflection and audience reaction
After an advance screening of the film Detroit, a patron asked how much of it was real and how much was just a movie. As a Detroit native, I felt like a lyric from Roberta Flack’s “Killing Me Softly”— “Telling my whole life with his words” — while watching director Kathryn Bigelow’s film, based on […]
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Claustrophobic docudrama revisits ’67 riots
Detroit’s ’67 riots broke out in the wee hours of July 23, in the wake of a police raid on an unlicensed bar where folks had been toasting a couple of vets who’d recently returned from Vietnam. Word spread like wildfire through the Black community that the cops had arrested all 82 people they found […]
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Up from the ashes — Detroit down, but not out
Conclusion of a two-part story The City of Detroit’s motto translated from the Latin is “We hope for better things; it will arise from the ashes.” That motto is prominently displayed on the city’s flag and has been the impetus for city residents ever since the 1805 fire that destroyed the city. The executive director […]
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Traveling exhibit tells the story of WGPR-TV
Detroit boasts of having aired first Black TV channel Before there was Black Entertainment Television (BET) and other Black-themed channels, there was Detroit’s WGPR-TV. “This is where it began,” declared Tracy Irwin, director of exhibitions and collections at the Detroit Historical Society, which hosted “America’s Broadcasting Pioneer: WGPR-TV 62” from January 23-April 3, 2016. Artifacts, […]