Tracy Tilmon-Jackson isn’t used to being stopped in her tracks. In late 2011, Tilmon-Jackson had just come home from a FEMA deployment – she works as a public assistance tech crew lead on various disasters – and was cleaning the house when it felt as if something had hit her in the chest, straight on. […]
Food waste. It’s something we might only think about when cleaning up from dinner or maybe we don’t think about it at all. The awful truth is America leads the world in food waste. According to the USDA, 30 to 40 percent of food is wasted every year in the United States, and the estimated […]
Four Detroit-area organizations have received grants for projects to eliminate child lead exposure. They awards were announced by the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services (MDHHS), on behalf of Michigan’s Child Lead Exposure Elimination Commission (CLEEC). In total, 11 local health departments, non-profit organizations, universities and other entities in Michigan received the one-time grants […]
Detroit’s own Erika ‘Big Red’ Stowall has danced her way into an online PBS series called “If Cities Could Dance.” The program is the creation of KQED, the San Francisco Bay Area NPR and PBS station. Each webisode in the series captures the dancers’ personal stories and their deep-rooted relationships to their community and city. […]