“Is this real?” flashed the text message on my cell phone. My brother was asking, I suspect, more out of puzzlement than shock. He didn’t know I’d already stopped at the side of the road in an urgent scramble for more information. I thumbed the phone’s touch-screen. Google never seemed more critical. It couldn’t be […]
On a summer-like evening, Alcides Roman walks down his street just off Vernor Highway, noting obvious changes in daily life in his Southwest Detroit neighborhood, pointing at houses along the way. “You’ve got a Mexican family there, and they don’t come out. You’ve another family there, they’re not coming out, either,” he says. “And that […]
Ground zero for the 1967 civil disturbance is becoming ground zero for neighborhood transformation thanks to involved citizens and the Detroit Planning and Development Dept. A standing-room-only crowd at a recent Rosa Parks/Clairmount Community forum sought a hundred ways to preserve historical buildings and increase density of homes and retail. With the renovation of the […]
“Wait,” I remember asking my mom as we drove under the bridge next to the Detroit Zoo, “So we’re a mixed race family?” It took me 17 years to realize that from the outside, we were a family of blended colors, cultures, identities, and histories. I am half Mexican and half white. My mother is […]