Retiring Southwest Solutions CEO John Van Camp took part in his first “sit-in” for social justice when he was just 10 years old. His family had moved from Detroit to an apple farm in Romeo around 1948. There was little interracial contact in the city, so his mom Dorothy, a social activist, formed an interracial […]
Detroit’s superheroes don’t wear capes. They don’t bend steel with their bare hands or leap tall buildings in a single bound. They’re mild-mannered and unassuming, like the legendary comic book reporter, Clark Kent. Or like real-life Southwest Detroit community advocate Kathy Wendler. But, make no mistake about it, Wendler has her own set of special […]
The importance of rebuilding homeownership in Detroit in order to revitalize its neighborhoods cannot be underestimated. Detroit is where the middle class movement began and took hold, and the distinctively American dream of homeownership helped form the foundation of this defining movement. Detroit had the greatest number of single-family homes per capita and boasted highest […]