Detroit, Michigan

Great works of art have come to the streets of Detroit as part of a new exhibition called  Inside/Out. Proving  that art can also be enjoyed outside of museum walls, The Detroit Institute of Arts has brought life-size reproductions of famous masterpieces to the streets, parks and concrete facades of Detroit.  This is the second year for the […]

Half a century ago, as Martin Luther King Jr. marched on Washington and Freedom Riders tested the desegregation of interstate buses, students at a Detroit high school stood up for their rights, and won. Finding the facilities and education at their school inferior to what was available at predominately white schools, they staged a walk-out, […]

According to the most recent Census data, the city of Detroit lost over 237,000 people over the past decade. Today, the Motor City has a population of only 713,777, making Detroit America’s 18th  most populated city. The Census findings fit nicely into the narrative of Detroit as a modern-day ghost town. However, say argue that the […]