On this day in 1906, Sidney Barthwell is born in Georgia. He will migrate to Detroit at age 14 and attend Cass Technical High School and Detroit Technological Institute (the forerunner of Wayne State’s College of Pharmacy), graduating with a degree in pharmacy. An ambitious entrepreneur, he will open Barthwell Drugs during the 1930s in the midst of the […]
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The repairs took nearly six hours and all of my savings. And that was just the beginning.
Henderson later turned to ministry and became an important voice for Detroiters.
George will work primarily as a music critic for the newspaper.
“There’s a lot of smart people around here but the economy isn’t doing too well,” a recent college graduate from Grosse Pointe Woods said.
“It’s distasteful; I couldn’t believe it when I saw it,” Francis Moore, who lives in Detroit near the border, said.
Sheffield spokesman: “This is not about physical violence. This is about a cell phone.”
“The music is what kept us out of trouble and the hardships are what kept us focused; it didn’t discourage us,” T3 of Slum Village said.
Richards taught at Everett Elementary School for 44 years. It was there that she established the first kindergarten in Michigan.