In the heart of Detroit’s west side, Prairie Street cuts an unassuming route between Puritan Avenue and McNichols Road. Dozens of vacant lots owned by the Detroit Land Bank Authority are flanked by 1920’s homes, some well-maintained and some dilapidated. On the block between Grove and Florence, a bright, white tent is set up on […]
Although he’s not a local native, Dr. Antoine Garibaldi is on familiar ground. Hailing from New Orleans, the University of Detroit Mercy president has family in the Detroit area and a background of scholarship that supported black Michigan youth during the 1990s. Today his ongoing challenge is to lead a campus of 5,000 in the […]
