Stateside’s conversation with Dr. Melba Boyd and Tristan Taylor
This time last year, the world as we knew it looked quite different than it does today. And although issues like police violence against people of color aren’t new, the murders of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor and so many other Black Americans jolted our country in new ways last summer.
Stateside wanted to spend some time thinking about the activism that has shaped the past few decades, and the many parallels and differences between the civil rights movement of the 1960s and today’s movement for Black lives.
Melba Boyd is a lifelong Detroit resident and distinguished professor of African American Studies at Wayne State University. Boyd has seen Detroit through its many forms and leadership. She had just graduated high school and was preparing to go to school at Western Michigan University when the Detroit 1967 Rebellion broke out.
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Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan (left), pictured Jan. 13 while speaking at the city s COVID-19 vaccination site at the downtown TCF Center garage, is running for a third term.
The Detroit Regional Chamber s political action committee has endorsed Mayor Mike Duggan for a third time.
The chamber s backing comes early in the race as other candidates have until April to file to run for the seat with a primary coming Aug. 3 and general election Nov. 2.
The Detroit-based but regionally focused chamber of commerce said in a news release Tuesday morning that Duggan would work well with Gov. Gretchen Whitmer s and President-elect Joe Biden s administrations in the coming years.