Wayne State University Law School, under the direction of professor Dana A. Roach, has established an expanded transactional clinic called the Small Business Enterprises and Nonprofit Corporations Clinic to offer free legal service to small businesses. At the Small Business Clinic (SBC), WSU Law School students represent non-profit and for-profit organizations located in the city of Detroit and in the metropolitan Detroit area that are unable to afford to pay for legal services provided by attorneys in private practice. SBC offers the legal services at no cost to the clients. However, clients are expected to pay for all expenses related to their transactions.

Dana Roach is also director of the Damon J. Keith Law Collection of African American Legal History at the university.

Contact Roach at 313-577-3961 or droach@wayne.edu.

Mayor offers tax breaks

Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick is pushing a proposal to grant 24 additional neighborhoods in Detroit a tax break. The plan is to attract homeowners to Detroit and reduce the tax burden on residents.

If approved by the Detroit City Council, about 28,000 home-owners would benefit from Kilpatrick’s plan to make them eligible for the Neighborhood Enterprise Zone tax break. The break would result in a reduction of city and county property tax by 18 to 35 percent.

Cosby, community to focus on manhood

Dr. Bill Cosby will join community leaders and experts at St. Paul Church of God in Christ, July 19 to focus on manhood, which includes fatherhood, husbandhood and mentorhood- everything but being a hood.

The event will take place from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m.. Panelists include: Keith Bennett; Deputy Police Chief Ralph Godbee; Rev. Zachary Hicks; Judge Willie G. Lipscomb Jr.; Dr. Curtis Ivery; and Bilal Quayyam. The rally is for good fathers who need help; young men who’ve made bad choices; mentors or those who want to be mentors; men looking for help getting jobs.

Men’s groups, and legal and social agencies will have booths available to provide information and help to men looking for opportunities to move ahead in life.

This event is sponsored by ARISE Detroit! Call (313) 921-1955. St. Paul Church of God in Christ is located at 1111 Sheridan.