Detroit healthcare workers protest health and safety dangers amid COVID-19
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Detroit healthcare workers face threat of COVID-19
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Detroit on the Front Line in Battle to End COVID-19 Pandemic

By Abayomi Azikiwe More than 2,000 people working in the healthcare industry have reportedly tested positive for COVID-19 in the Detroit metropolitan area sending further tremors through the already heavily-shaken region which has been identified […]

Oakland County in metropolitan Detroit where COVID-19 cases are speading
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Coronavirus: Detroit Impacted Severely by Pandemic

By Abayomi Azikiwe On March 12, Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer declared a state of emergency in Michigan ordering public buildings and educational institutions closed for three weeks. By Monday, March 16, restaurants were closed for […]

Detroit City Council public hearing on property tax crisis, March 3, 2020
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“Cut the Damn Check!”

By Detroit Fighting Words Staff A public hearing petitioned by the People’s Slate to address their proposals on the over assessments and illegal payments of property taxes by homeowners in Detroit, attracted hundreds of people […]

Call'em out protest 02-28-2020
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Denby High football players with Coach deon Godfrey at 2020 Detroit MLK Day Rally
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Martin Luther King, Jr. marches with other Civil Rights, Labor and Antiwar leaders in Chicago on March 25, 1967 against the Vietnam War
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Detroit demolition by private contractors created environmental problems with debris left on sites
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Detroit Demolition Bond Proposal Defeated Amid Mass Discontent

By Abayomi Azikiwe On November 19, the Detroit City Council voted down a bond proposal advanced by corporate-imposed Mayor Mike Duggan ostensibly designed to eliminate blighted residential properties in this overwhelmingly impoverished African American municipality. […]

McDonald's workers demand an end to sexual harassment at #FastFoodGlobal Day of Action strike in Detroit on Nov. 14
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Detroit delegation headed by Helen Moore to Cincinnati for the literacy case appeal on Oct. 24, 2019
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