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10 most expensive homes sold in Wayne County, April 15-21
A house in Grosse Pointe that sold for $2 million tops the list of the most expensive residential real estate sales in Wayne County in the past week. In total, 397 residential real estate sales were recorded in the county during the past week, with an average price of $179,725, or $136 per square foot.
Flint marks 10 years since water crisis
We can expect a high of 75 degrees. It'll be mostly cloudy, warm, and humid with a couple of showers and a thunderstorm, mainly early in the day. The Flint water crisis began ten years ago this month. It began when an unelected emergency manager made the catastrophic decision to change the source of the city's drinking water from Lake Huron to the Flint River as a cost-saving measure.
Museum lecture deals with Detroit’s other Rosa Parks
The story of Detroit’s other Rosa Parks will be the subject of Thursday’s lecture at the National Museum of the Great Lakes, 1701 Front St. Journalist and author Desiree Cooper’s All Aboard: How Sarah E. Ray Integrated the Boblo Boats will cover the story of how the Black woman who took a stand against discrimination while traveling on a boat sailing tourists from Detroit to a Canadian amusement park, Her fight against racial injustice led to a U.S. Supreme Court victory in 1948 and induction into the Michigan Women’s Hall of Fame. Registration is required for the free lecture. Click here to register and for more information.
Mild and muggy temperatures stick around
Some showers and storms move back in overnight.
Temporary Shelters For Human Trafficking Victims
Architectural Firm Fusco Shaffer and Pappas (FSP) in Ferndale, has a long history of helping non-profits, recently completed a renovation at Vista Maria In Dearborn - a safe haven for women who have escaped human trafficking. The psychology behind the renovation is fascinating. As FSP worked with Vista Maria to provide a center to care for women who had escaped human trafficking, they designed the space to have enough security for residents to feel safe yet not feel like it was a prison. Over the years FSP has learned that to help people heal, “you want to create a sense of family and place and try not to make it feel like an institution,”
Listen to episode 7 of 'Where Secrets Go to Die' podcast on Tuesday
A new episode of the Detroit Free Press podcast "Where Secrets Go to Die: The Disappearance of Derrick Henagan" comes out Tuesday at freep.com/secrets, only for subscribers. This will be the seventh installment in the eight-part true crime series built on long-form investigative journalism. The episode is told in two parts released the same day.
Red carpet premiere for ‘Higher and Higher’ TV series to be held in Detroit
DETROIT – The TV series “Higher and Higher” will be premiered at an event in Detroit. The series tells the story of the life of Jackie Wilson. The premiere is at 7 p.m. on Saturday, May 4, at the Bel Air Luxury Cinema on 8 Mile Road in Detroit.
Coach of Michigan HS basketball player who died of cardiac arrest finds 'sense of relief' in new law strengthening CPR, AED requirements
Gov. Michigan Gretchen Whitmer on Saturday signed a pair of bills that will better protect student athletes during practice and competition by strengthening CPR and AED requirements for coaches. Damar Hamlin attended the event in Detroit.
More charges are expected against people who assaulted cops during fight outside Warren's Lincoln High School: police
Three teens have been arraigned on charges in connection with large fight outside of a high school, that injured an officer with the Warren Police Department. Now police say more arrests and charges are expected in the case.
Excerpt from 'Summer on Fire:' A Detroit Novel by Peter Werbe
Peter Werbe is an author and longtime radio personality who was on the air in Detroit for more than four decades on stations including WABX, WWWW. WRIF, and WCSX. His book, "Summer on Fire," is a mix of history and inventive remembrance. Werbe’s novel follows members of the Fifth Estate newspaper staff through six weeks in the hot summer of 1967. This excerpt follows a huge demonstration against the war in Vietnam where undercover cops set up two marchers on vandalism charges and the court proceedings.
'The Week That Was:' TikTok Ban and Pro-Palestinian Protests at University of Michigan
Host Saeed Khan talks with guests, author and Detroit radio personality Peter Werbe, Detroit Free Press investigative columnist M.L. Elrick, attorney Joel Sklar, community and labor activist Barb Ingalls and Deadline Detroit co-founder Allan Lengel. They talk about the ban of TikTok and regulating social media, University of Michigan protests...
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