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Share May 07, 2021, 8:04 PM "Just the beginning," says the caption with this Instagram portrait of Cass Tech pioneers. See nine more photos. An 18-member Cass Tech team has several distinctions. Its a first-season newcomer among Michigans 92 high school womens lacrosse teams and the only one in Detroit. It also has more Black players -- 14 -- than most others in the state, and perhaps than all of them. Alexia Carroll-Williams, left (Photo: Instagram) "They do not look like t...

LaShay Heard of Detroit started her mobile paint and sip business back in 2017. It's called "Paint'd Party Services," and provides an instruction-led painting experience, which she leads.

Up to 50 kids join the Monday meets, to allow space for social distancing. “You couldn’t really trust (players) to touch pieces and not touch their face,” said retired Detroit police Officer Chevelle Brown, founder of I Teach Chess, a program dedicated to chess classes and camps. The Detroit Police Athletic League started its youth chess program on March 22, in partnership with I Teach Chess. Among the benefits of chess are critical thinking, foresight, creativity, concentration, and ...

Several Detroit City Council members wont seek reelection Detroit — New representation is in store this fall for many Detroit residents as nearly half of the incumbents on the City Council are not seeking new terms. Indicted District 7 Councilman Gabe Leland is foregoing another run as well as District 4 Councilman Andre Spivey, who represents the east side, and District 6 Councilwoman Raquel Castañeda-López, the first Latina elected to the council whose district covers southwest Detroit...

Lawrence Price and Sydney Neal Special to the Detroit Free Press Tonya Mosley was 13 when she boarded a bus in northwest Detroit and took it downtown to the Detroit Free Press to meet editor Bob McGruder in 1993. McGruder, who had been named editor of the paper earlier that year, had arranged for Mosley to spend a day shadowing a journalist. It was her first time taking the bus that far. “I was like an hour late, and when I got there, this journalist had actually called in sick,” said Mosle...

Applications open for Freep Summer Apprentice Program: Where former apprentices are now Lawrence Price and Sydney Neal © Detroit Free Press Detroit Free Press Summer Apprentice Jasmin Lee covers the NAACP convention in Detroit during the summer of 2019. Tonya Mosley was 13 when she boarded a bus in northwest Detroit and took it downtown to the Detroit Free Press to meet editor Bob McGruder in 1993. McGruder, who had been named editor of the paper earlier that year, had arrang...

“I don’t say, ‘Next chapter,’” she muses from her Los Angeles home. “I say this is an additional chapter in my life, just being able to be a creator and helping actors, producers and others receive opportunities in this industry. I know when I see my name on my screen when these movies air, I am going to be screaming.” Like many dreams in Hollywood, or elsewhere, Robinson’s producing vision took a while to materialize: four years, to be exact. The telemovies ar...

A mega-designer brand is getting some much-needed schooling from Detroit high school students.

K-12 schools now number one source of COVID-19 outbreaks in Michigan Next meeting of the Michigan Educators Rank-and-File Safety Committee: Saturday, March 13, 1PM.Register now K-12 schools are now the largest source of new COVID-19 outbreaks in Michigan. In the first week of March, the state recorded 47 separate outbreaks at K-12 schools in which a combined 221 students, teachers and staff tested positive for the virus. The same week, 24 more outbreaks took place at daycare centers and “yout...

The man behind ‘Detroit vs. Everybody’ ‘The message is not mine. The message is ours and it resides in all of us.’ Tags:  DETROIT – It’s one of the most recognizable slogans in Metro Detroit: “Detroit vs. Everybody.” It was started by a Detroit graduate whose career took him across the country. The man responsible for the multi-million dollar business is changing the way people view Detroit and creating jobs. Tommey Walker is a Cass Technical High School graduate with a deep-ro...