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A minister since the age of 16, Deon Mullen continues to find new ways to serve through his work at Detroit's Franklin Wright Settlements.

Orofino, who died at 98, taught at Galileo High School and scarcely mentioning the heroic...

The city unveiled plans to erect a shelter for the destitute in the inner city, but the area is the subject of land claims

We live as a rainbow nation.

Welbedacht is home to Black, Indian, white and mixed-race residents, and researchers say it could be a model for other places still scarred by apartheid

This KwaZulu-Natal neighbourhood is hailed as a model for racial diversity and social cohesion.

The people of Welbedacht in South Africa always knew there was something special about their neighborhood. In contrast to the towering walls and electric fences seen in more crime-ridden urban areas, residents criss-cross between open and interconnected land on undulating green hills and say crime is less frequent. Eager to identify the key to Welbedacht’s harmony, researchers think they have discovered one of the answers — its long-standing ethnic diversity, a finding they hope could serve ...

Analysts, activists and officials point for need to quickly slash fossil fuel use as climate scientists release their latest report

We applaud the recent commentary authored by Jametta Lilly, CEO, Detroit Parent Network; Monique Marks, CEO, Franklin-Wright Settlements Inc., and Alice Thompson, chair of the NAACP-Detroit Branch Education Committee, in which they shine a light on school funding gaps that result in poor literacy…

The Bellhaven Harm Reduction Centre in Durban has been featured in a documentary called Good Hood Stories that will premier at the Better Cities Film Festival on Thursday, October 7, in Michigan in the US