Partner programs like Project Green Light, Ceasefire Detroit and the Detroit Police Department’s Real Time Crime Center helped take a big bite out of crime in Detroit in 2017, and officials are putting more strategies in place to ensure the trend continues. Since 2016, nearly every category of major crime in Detroit has seen significant […]
Angela Yvonne Griggs gave many the gift of time. In November 2010, Griggs, a native Detroiter, suffered a fatal asthma attack. She had already made the decision to be an organ, eye and tissue donor, and that commitment saved and improved the lives of many. Her gift and her generous spirit where memorialized on New […]
The City of Detroit is partnering with city-contracted service providers, the faith-based community and others to reach more homeless individuals and families and help them get into shelters or warming centers this weekend (Jan. 5-7) as temperatures drop to dangerous lows. In addition to the warming centers and current outreach efforts, the city will be […]
Ten years ago Shamayim (Mama Shu) Harris lost her two-year-old son, Jakobi, when he was killed by a hit-and-run driver on Rhode Island Ave. in Highland Park. She decided the best way to create a memorial to Jakobi was to help turn some of that city’s most blighted blocks into an eco-village. She started out […]