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Pastor Charles Williams II at Historic King Solomon Baptist Church in Detroit. Image credit: Eric Bronson, Michigan Photography DETROIT-Jean Sherman

David McMillon was a middle schooler in Saginaw when he dreamed of space travel and outer space. Anthony Della Pella was working in his high school library when he found a book on theoretical math—and his direction in his educational life. But the route to a doctorate degree in the fields of science, technology, engineering and mathematics for students like McMillon, who is Black, and Della Pella, a first-generation college graduate from River Rouge, isn’t always clear cut. Trachette Jackson, a University of Michigan math professor, says that many students face biases, inequalities and ba...

It’s time for affordable homes in Washington State PHOTO COURTESY OF JOSH FIELDS | Home prices are rising in WA. Newly constructed or nice family homes in Washington state can cost anywhere from 600,000 to 1 million. How can it be addressed that this is just too expensive? When looking for homes, apartments or townhouses to rent or buy in Washington state, especially near the coast, the prices are exorbitant.  If you want a nice or newly built family home near the Bellevue, Issaquah or Kirkland area, it will be very hard to find anything below $600,000. As we look at the beautiful cities o...

Providence saw a spike in homicides and shootings in 2020. The Police Department recorded 18 homicides in the year. The department reported 13 murders and nonnegligent manslaughters to the FBI in 2019 and 10 in 2018, according to FBI data.  The increase in shootings, which include people killed or injured by gunfire, was even starker: 73 victims as of Dec. 29, compared to 35 for all of 2019. That’s just as troubling as the increase in murders, because the difference between a fatal shooting and a nonfatal shooting is often just luck.  The increases came despite a remarkably peaceful start...