Detroit

US Water Shutoff Moratorium May Have Prevented Nearly 500,000 Covid-19 Cases: Study

"These findings should move us to fight even harder for water justice everywhere."

Jessica Corbett · Mar 26, 2021

Progressive Rashida Tlaib Calls Primary Victory 'A Resounding Mandate to Put People Before Profits'

Eoin Higgins · Aug 5, 2020

New Local Lawsuit Challenges 'Violent and Unlawful' Attacks on Portland Protesters by Trump's Secret Police Force

Jessica Corbett · Jul 21, 2020

'Fascism Coming to a City Near You': Trump Pledges to Deploy Secret Police Units to Major US Cities

Jessica Corbett · Jul 20, 2020

ACLU Demands Lawmakers Act After Michigan Man Wrongfully Arrested 'Because Face Recognition Can't Tell Black People Apart'

Jessica Corbett · Jun 24, 2020

'You Wanna Go Outside With Me?' Joe Biden Tries to Fight Union Worker After Disagreement Over Gun Control

The auto-worker accused Biden of plotting to take his guns away.

Eoin Higgins · Mar 10, 2020

'About Damn Time': Detroit Pauses Water Shutoffs Amid Coronavirus Outbreak

"It shouldn't take a crisis like the spread of coronavirus to restore people's right to drinking water."

Andrea Germanos · Mar 9, 2020

'It Always Seems Impossible Until it Is Done': Bernie Sanders, at Detroit Rally With Rashida Tlaib, Calls on Audience to Believe in a Better Future

"Don't believe anyone that tells you that moving towards a society of justice is impossible."

Eoin Higgins · Oct 27, 2019

Former Rep. John Conyers, Who Served in Congress for 53 Years, Dies at 90

"He never once wavered in fighting for jobs, justice, and peace. We always knew where he stood on issues of equality and civil rights in the fight for the people." 

Eoin Higgins · Oct 27, 2019

Why Detroit Could Be the Engine for the Green New Deal

The city exhibits all of the problems the framework is meant to heal.

Eleanore Catolico · Sep 21, 2019

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

"For too long we have allowed the forces of economic injustice and environmental racism to perpetuate inequality and lack of opportunity. Now it is time to build environmental justice into everything we do."

Julia Conley · Jul 29, 2019

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

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."

Jessica Corbett · Apr 26, 2019

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

Sadly, there will come a day when Detroit speaks of Henry Ford and Walter Reuther with the same sense of nostalgia and lost glory that the Greeks reserve for Plato.

David Macaray · Jan 14, 2018