Council member Brenda Jones was elected to serve the citizens of Detroit in November 2005. As a member of this legislative branch, she pledges her commitment to advocate for positive progression, safe and clean neighborhoods, and opportunities for development throughout the entire community. Jones currentlyserves as chairperson of the City Council
 Rules Committee and is a member of the Internal Operations Standing Committee and Neighborhood and Community Services Standing
Committee. In addition, she is the chairperson of the Skilled Trades Task Force, co-chair of the...

With only two weeks before the election for City Council, the race is getting hotter. With 167 candidates and 49 running for the Charter Revision
Committee, is it possible for voters to know who is in the race or for whom they are even voting?

The candidate list is filled with familiar names such as Charles Pugh,
Freman Hendrix and Gary Brown. However, are less familiar candidates
subject to lose the race due to lack of name recognition?

Are voters overlooking promising and qualified candidates because the
celebrated names in politics are casting a large...

One of the nation’s pre-eminent Black scholars, Henry Louis Gates Jr., last week had a taste of the criminal justice system that critics say is vehemently biased against people of color, especially Black men in America.

Like the transformation of Apostle Paul of Tarsus on the road to Damascus, Gates is now vowing to pursue prison reform to help Black men — exposing the judicial inequities deeply buried in our criminal justice system drawing from his recent experience.

“There are one million Black men in jail in this country and last Thursday I was one of...

The second edition of “The Window 2 My Soul,” written by Detroiter Yusef Shakur (formerly known as Joseph Ruffin) with a new forward by Michigan State University Professor Carl S. Taylor, will be launched July 25 at 2243 Ferry Park from 1 to 8 p.m. Entertainment will be provided.

In the book, Shakur highlights his rambunctious youth with gripping moments, such as being expelled from all Detroit Public Schools while being charged with numerous violent assaults and attempted murder. In prison, before he the age of 20, Shakur would meet behind bars the father he never...

Attorney General Mike Cox recently published an official opinion asserting that because the Detroit Public Schools has fallen below the 100,000 enrollment mary necessary to maintain its status in state law as a “first class school district,” DPS is a “general powers” school district.

Cox’s opinion was written in response to an inquiry from Mike Flanagan, superintendent of public education.