“Suppose that the 500,000 blacks in Detroit decided this this is our city, this is our home, and we are not going to let buzzards take it from us,” Farrakhan said to thundering applause.
The homemade bomb fizzled out before it caught fire at the Whittier home of Art Van Furniture President Gary Van Elslander.
As police cordoned off the scene of a fatal motorcycle-car collision Wednesday evening, something unusual started happening at the intersection.
“I’m sorry but, I mean, bring it on,” George Jackson said of gentrification. “We can’t just be a poor city and prosper.”
Farrakhan is in town looking for potential buildings and properties to purchase as a way to help reignite the local economy.
Detroit mayoral candidate Tom Barrow claims three of his opponents committed campaign violations that are egregious enough to dismiss their candidacy.
Police said the the 21-year-old woman, who is a few months pregnant and was a passenger in the car, was shot in the body after turning down sex from the driver on West Fort.
“No one attempted to assist the victim,” police said today.
The documentary shows the young father tenderly caring for an elderly woman with chest pains in Detroit.
Mayor Dave Bing, whose popularity has steadily declined since taking office in 2009, won’t run for re-election after all, but he has his eyes on something else.