4 children, adult narrowly escape fire on Detroit’s east side; puppies found
Neighbors rescued some of the children from the burning home.
Daylight firebombing kills 2 children, ages 1 and 4
“They don’t care how old you are,” a neighbor told me. “Death means nothing to them.”
Detroit paramedics slow to respond to deadly fire; injured child waits 45 minutes for ambulance
Victims of two house fires waited between 25-45 minutes for an ambulance to arrive.
The ice cream truck doesn’t stop here anymore
When I hear Dr. Martin Luther King Jr’s “I Have A Dream” speech, a single image pops into my head – a couple of 3-year-old kids, a tow-headed girl and a dark-skinned boy, sharing a red popsicle on a concrete porch on the east side of Detroit. Moments earlier, the ice cream truck had pulled […]