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Abayomi Azikiwe
Detroit City Council Expands “ShotSpotter” After Two More are Gunned Down by Police
19 Oct 2022
Detroit resident Porter Burks was killed by police while in the midst of a mental health crisis. To add insult to injury, the city of Detroit is spending millions of dollars on dubious technology…
Abayomi Azikiwe
Tens of Thousands Threatened with Property Tax Foreclosures in Detroit
30 Mar 2022
March 31 has been designated as the deadline for Wayne County residents to pay back property taxes from 2019 and before despite the failure to provide adequate assistance to working and impoverished…
Roy Singham
On the Road from Detroit to South Africa: Black Radical Internationalist Traditions
23 Nov 2021
Roy Singham reminisces about his work with the late General Gordon Baker, Jr. and the League of Revolutionary Black Workers (LRBW) in Detroit and its connections with South African workers.
Mark P. Fancher
COVID-19 and the War Against Black Detroit
29 Apr 2020
Corporate America and white supremacists have waged merciless war against the Black megapolis that dared to nurture revolutionaries and great music.
Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
Detroit Teachers Strike Against Disaster Capitalism
05 May 2016
The corporate narrative on the Detroit teacher’s sick-out is that the public schools are “failing,” just as the city has “failed” to manage its own finances. But the state has intervened in Detroit’s…