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Detroit

Slamming Use of Poor Communities as 'Dumping Grounds' by Corporate Polluters, Jay Inslee Unveils Plan to Hold Fossil Fuel Giants Accountable

Making Case for Green New Deal, Abdul El-Sayed Argues It's Also a Public Health New Deal

Jessica Corbett, staff writer

Abdul El-Sayed

As Detroit's health director, "I realized that the forces that cause climate change are the same forces that poisoned the lungs of babies in my city."

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Despite Hundreds of Arrests, Striking Workers Undaunted in Fight for $15

Nika Knight, staff writer

Striking workers in Kansas City, Missouri

"I'm fighting because I'm not afraid"

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Decrying State's "Systemic and Deliberate Failure," Detroit Students Demand Constitutional Right to Literacy

Andrea Germanos, staff writer

The schools are "irreparably damaging children's futures," new federal lawsuit...

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Detroit Ready to Sue Banks, Private Companies for Unpaid Property Taxes

'America is Back,' Trump Declares, Announcing Tax Cuts for Billionaires

Detroit Schools Shuttered as Lawmakers 'Illegally' Withhold Teacher Pay

Detroit Teachers Hold Sickout to Protest Broken Funding Promises

Disregarding Privacy, Court Rules Common Cell Surveillance Method is Legal

Lawsuits, Including RICO Charge, Pile Up for Embattled Michigan Governor

Facing Dual Crises, Former Flint Manager Resigns as Detroit Schools Head

As Obama Visits City, Teacher Sick-Outs Shutter Nearly All Detroit Public Schools

Detroit Teachers Hold Sick-Out to Demand Fixes to School's "Abominable" Problems

From Terrible to Worse for Those Living in One of America's Most Polluted Zip Codes

Concluding Lifetime of Dedicated Activism, Grace Lee Boggs Dies at Age 100

Between 'Schools and Smokestacks,' Detroit Rises Up for Climate Justice

Newswire

Food & Water Watch

Detroit Needs Affordable Water, Not More Shutoffs

People's Action

Michigan Women Disrupt Donald Trump in Detroit

Sierra Club

Tomorrow: Hundreds of Protesters to March on Detroit in Call for Justice

Food & Water Watch

Social Justice Organizations Demand Economic Relief for Affected Detroit Residents

Food & Water Watch

Concerned Americans Demand that President Obama and the Department of Health and Human Services Intervene in Detroit Water Crisis

ACLU

Federal Lawsuit Challenges Michigan City’s Rejection of Atheist Display

Views

Eleanore Catolico

Why Detroit Could Be the Engine for the Green New Deal

David Macaray

A Startling Shift in Demographics: Everything Seems to Be Going South

Valerie Vande Panne

Smells Like Environmental Racism

Zenobia Jeffries

What Is It Like to Live Without Running Water? Detroit Families Know

Arn Pearson

Flint Is a Casualty in the Right Wing's War on Local Democracy

Laura Flanders

A Great National Sick-Out - It's Past Time

Bill Quigley

Water Resistance Trial Underway in Detroit

Laura Gottesdiener

A Foreclosure Conveyor Belt: The Continuing Depopulation of Detroit

Nick Turse

RoboCop, Detroit, and the Rise of Our Contemporary Dystopia

Maude Barlow

Everyone in Detroit Should Have Access To Clean Water