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Local Black churches play a supporting role in students’ education

As students return to the classroom, the faith-based community continues to play a supporting role in their education. The partnerships created <a href="https://wordpress.detroitpbs.org/black-church-abj-clips/detroits-black-churches-partner-with-city-schools-champion-students-education/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">between school districts and churches</a> often bridge gaps in resources, provide emotional support, and address various challenges faced by the school system. <span data-ccp-props="{&quot;134233117&quot;:false,&quot;134233118&quot;:false,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:0,&quot;335551620&quot;:0,&quot;335557856&quot;:16777215,&quot;335559685&quot;:-20,&quot;335559737&quot;:-20,&quot;335559738&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:279}"> 
American Black Journal’s <a href="https://wordpress.detroitpbs.org/abj-church/">“Black Church in Detroit” series</a> explores the contributions of local churches. Guest host Trudy Gallant-Stokes leads a discussion with Bishop Dr. Corletta Vaughn of <a href="https://www.gotellit.org/holy-ghost-cathedral" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Holy Ghost Cathedral Church</a> and Pastor Velma Jean Overman of <a href="https://www.facebook.com/p/Christ-Temple-City-of-Refuge-CTCOR-100064276496158/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Christ Temple City of Refuge</a>. <span data-ccp-props="{&quot;134233117&quot;:false,&quot;134233118&quot;:false,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:0,&quot;335551620&quot;:0,&quot;335557856&quot;:16777215,&quot;335559685&quot;:-20,&quot;335559737&quot;:-20,&quot;335559738&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:279}"> 
Bishop Vaughn, <a href="https://www.detroitk12.org/site/default.aspx?PageType=3&amp;DomainID=4&amp;ModuleInstanceID=4585&amp;ViewID=6446EE88-D30C-497E-9316-3F8874B3E108&amp;RenderLoc=0&amp;FlexDataID=25399&amp;PageID=1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">a board member</a> of the Detroit Public Schools Community District, talks about the spiritual support faith leaders provide to students, parents, and educators. She emphasizes the faith community’s role in addressing chronic absenteeism, which has been a major issue for the district. <span data-ccp-props="{&quot;134233117&quot;:false,&quot;134233118&quot;:false,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:0,&quot;335551620&quot;:0,&quot;335557856&quot;:16777215,&quot;335559685&quot;:-20,&quot;335559737&quot;:-20,&quot;335559738&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:279}"> 
At Pastor Overman’s church, students are rewarded for consistent school attendance. Pastor Overman discusses those efforts and emphasizes the close collaboration between her church and local educators to enhance out-of-school time learning opportunities for children.
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President Biden gives keynote at Detroit NAACP Fight for Freedom Fund Dinner

The Detroit Branch NAACP is gearing up for its 69th annual Fight for Freedom Fund Dinner on May 19 at <a href="https://www.huntingtonplacedetroit.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Huntington Place</a> in downtown Detroit. <a href="https://www.detroitnaacp.org/69th-dinner" target="_blank" rel="noopener">This year’s dinner</a> will feature <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/administration/president-biden/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">President Joe Biden</a> as the keynote speaker, marking only the second time a sitting U.S. President has given the keynote address in the dinner’s history. 
The significance of President Biden’s appearance comes at a crucial time as the nation and world grapple with pressing issues, including those vital to the African American community. The stakes are high for Biden heading into the 2024 Presidential election. <span data-ccp-props="{&quot;134233117&quot;:false,&quot;134233118&quot;:false,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335557856&quot;:16777215,&quot;335559685&quot;:-20,&quot;335559737&quot;:-20,&quot;335559738&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:279}"> 
The Detroit NAACP Freedom Fund Dinner traces its origins back to April 1956 when it was launched under the leadership of Branch President Edward M. Turner, Arthur L. Johnson, and Dr. Lionel F. Swan. Despite the challenges of racial violence and tragedy during its inception, the event symbolized a period of renewed hope and determination among Black Americans. Attendees of the annual dinner play a crucial role in supporting the Detroit NAACP’s efforts to remain at the forefront of advocacy and activism.<span data-ccp-props="{&quot;134233117&quot;:false,&quot;134233118&quot;:false,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335557856&quot;:16777215,&quot;335559685&quot;:-20,&quot;335559737&quot;:-20,&quot;335559738&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:279}"> 
Host <a href="https://twitter.com/SHDetroit" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Stephen Henderson</a> talks with Detroit NAACP <a href="https://naacp.org/people/reverend-wendell-anthony" target="_blank" rel="noopener">President Rev. Dr. Wendell Anthony</a> about President Biden’s appearance. Rev. Anthony outlines some of the issues and policies that are important to the African American community. He also gives details on the honorees at this year’s Fight for Freedom Fund Dinner.<span data-ccp-props="{&quot;134233117&quot;:false,&quot;134233118&quot;:false,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335557856&quot;:16777215,&quot;335559685&quot;:-20,&quot;335559737&quot;:-20,&quot;335559738&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:279}"> 
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President Joe Biden to deliver keynote at Detroit NAACP’s Fight for Freedom Fund Dinner

Bookstock returns for 20th year to support literacy in metro Detroit

The 20th annual <a href="https://www.bookstockmi.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Bookstock event</a> is set to return to Livonia, Michigan bringing with it nearly 400,000 used books, DVDs, CDs, books on tape, and vinyl records. From April 7th to 14th, book enthusiasts and bargain hunters alike will flock to Laurel Park Place to peruse the vast selection of media available at discounted prices.<span data-ccp-props="{&quot;134233117&quot;:false,&quot;134233118&quot;:false,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:0,&quot;335551620&quot;:0,&quot;335557856&quot;:16777215,&quot;335559738&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:279}"> 
Bookstock isn&#8217;t just a sale; it&#8217;s a community-driven initiative organized entirely by volunteers that supports education and literacy projects in the Detroit metropolitan area and beyond. One such initiative is the <a href="https://www.bookstockmi.org/best/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">B.E.S.T. Awards essay contest</a>, open to fourth-grade students in the Detroit Public Schools Community District. Winners of the contest receive gift cards for their schools, teachers, and themselves. The contest’s goal is to foster a culture of literacy and creativity among Detroit&#8217;s youth.<span data-ccp-props="{&quot;134233117&quot;:false,&quot;134233118&quot;:false,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:0,&quot;335551620&quot;:0,&quot;335557856&quot;:16777215,&quot;335559738&quot;:300,&quot;335559739&quot;:300,&quot;335559740&quot;:279}"> 
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But the impact of Bookstock extends far beyond the confines of a single event. Through the <a href="https://www.bookstockmi.org/bookstock-fund/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Bookstock Fund</a>, established from the revenue of each year&#8217;s sale and generous donations, the organization continues to support a myriad of literacy-enhancing endeavors including book clubs, poetry slams, and innovative literacy programs like the Einstein Method.
<a href="https://twitter.com/SHDetroit" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Host Stephen Henderson</a> speaks with three guests connected to Bookstock and its B.E.S.T. Awards essay contest for fourth-grade students in the Detroit Public Schools Community District: DPSCD Deputy Superintendent &amp; Bookstock Honorary Chancellor Alycia Meriweather, Davison Elementary School Teacher Kenya Austin-Posey, and a finalist in last year’s B.E.S.T. Awards competition, fifth grader Dak’harion Dikemerekwe. The group talks about what to expect at this year’s Bookstock, how the event benefits literacy and education projects in Detroit and the surrounding area, and its impact on students like Dak’harion.
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10th annual Black Friday Scholarship Bootcamp returns Nov. 24 in Detroit

In a bid to transform Black Friday from a day of shopping sprees to a day of educational empowerment, Gwen Thomas, the founder and executive director of Fresh Perspectives Seminars, is gearing up for the 10th annual Black Friday Scholarship Bootcamp on Nov. 24 in Detroit. This year, <a href="https://wordpress.detroitpbs.org/event/a-conversation-with-university-of-michigan-president-santa-ono-detroit-economic-club-livestream/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">the event</a> will offer four scholarships, including two $1,000 prizes, one $500 award, and one $250 grant for graduating seniors.<span data-ccp-props="{&quot;134233117&quot;:false,&quot;134233118&quot;:false,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:0,&quot;335551620&quot;:0,&quot;335559738&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}"> 
More than just monetary rewards, the Bootcamp provides an array of resources such as coaching, ACT/SAT preparation, academic advising, and even assistance with resumes or CVs. With a track record of helping students secure over $22 million in scholarships and study abroad funding to over 100 countries, the Bootcamp is a beacon for those seeking higher education opportunities. Beyond scholarship insights, the event will feature an exciting seminar on the entertainment field, engaging attendees with celebrity entrepreneurs.<span data-ccp-props="{&quot;134233117&quot;:false,&quot;134233118&quot;:false,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:0,&quot;335551620&quot;:0,&quot;335559738&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}"> 
<figure id="attachment_33173" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-33173" style="width: 650px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="wp-image-33173" src="https://wordpress.detroitpbs.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/3.png" alt="Black Friday Scholarship Bootcamp" width="650" height="366" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-33173" class="wp-caption-text">Fresh Perspectives Seminars&#8217; Founder and Executive Director Gwen Thomas speaks at the 2022 Black Friday Scholarship Bootcamp. | Photo courtesy of Fresh Perspectives Seminars&#8217;</figcaption></figure>
Host <a href="https://twitter.com/SHDetroit" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Stephen Henderson</a> recently caught up with Thomas to discuss the unique approach of encouraging families to shop for scholarships instead of retail bargains at the mall. Additionally, they delve into federal, state, and private loans, grants, and shortcuts to navigate the FAFSA process. The day-long workshop, to be held at the prestigious <a href="https://www.detroitgolfclub.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Detroit Golf Club</a>, is not just a seminar, it&#8217;s a transformative journey offering valuable insights for high school juniors and seniors and their parents. 
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10th Annual Black Friday Scholarship Bootcamp offers educational opportunities rather than shopping sprees

The challenges of higher education access and equity in Michigan

​A sobering reality persists for many students from communities of color trying to enter one of Michigan’s many higher education institutions. Often, they’re met with a myriad of challenges and barriers in the pursuit of higher education access and admission. From systemic inequities to financial constraints, these aspiring scholars often confront multifaceted hurdles that can hinder their dreams of post-secondary education.   
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In a high-impact panel discussion led by host <a href="https://twitter.com/SHDetroit" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Stephen Henderson</a>, some of the state’s top experts in higher education diversity, equity, and inclusion including <a href="https://ssw.umich.edu/faculty/profiles/leo/fsalman" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Fatima Salman</a>, President of the <a href="https://www.nasw-michigan.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">National Association of Social Workers-MI</a>; <a href="https://detroitfuturecity.com/team_member/kimberly-faison/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Kimberly Faison</a>, Director of Community and Economic Development at <a href="https://detroitfuturecity.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Detroit Future City</a>; and <a href="https://ticas.org/staff/onjila-odeneal/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Onjila Odeneal</a>, Senior Director of Policy and Advocacy at <a href="https://ticas.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Institute for College Access &amp; Success</a> (TICAS), came together to address the issues of college access and achievement for students of color in Michigan’s higher education system.  
The panelists talk about how Michigan can improve outcomes for young students of color and what Michigan’s institutions of higher education must do to diversify their admissions and ensure first-generation students have the support they need. <span data-ccp-props="{&quot;134233117&quot;:false,&quot;134233118&quot;:false,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:1,&quot;335551620&quot;:1,&quot;335559738&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}"> 
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Michigan’s higher education experts discuss college access, equity for communities of color

Brilliant Detroit launches 2023 citywide summer literacy campaign

As summer break continues for students across the United States, concerns about the academic impact of learning loss on communities of color and low-income families continue to heighten. Research consistently shows that students from these communities are disproportionately affected by <a href="https://www.ed.gov/content/stopping-summer-slide" target="_blank" rel="noopener">the &#8220;summer slide,&#8221;</a> a phenomenon where children experience a decline in academic skills and knowledge during the extended break. With limited access to resources and educational opportunities, these students face even greater challenges in bridging the achievement gap when they return to school in the fall.  
Addressing this issue has become a critical focus for educators, policymakers, and local and national community organizations, like <a href="https://brilliantdetroit.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Brilliant Detroit</a> and <a href="https://readingpartners.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Reading Partners</a>, as they strive to ensure equity and provide support to vulnerable populations during the summer months. By creating engaging and enjoyable summer literacy programs, it can instill a love for reading and learning in children, making them more motivated to excel academically. 
Brilliant Detroit Co-founder &amp; CEO Cindy Eggleton and Reading Partners CEO Adeola Whitney talked with “American Black Journal” host <a href="https://twitter.com/SHDetroit" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Stephen Henderson</a> about Brilliant Detroit&#8217;s new <a href="https://brilliantdetroit.org/summer-reading-progress/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">citywide summer literacy campaign</a> at its community hubs. Children and families can take part in reading activities, field trips and pop-up events designed to keep young kids engaged in the joy of reading. Whitney, whose national organization partnered with Brilliant Detroit for the event, also talks about collaborating in Detroit for the first time and providing volunteer tutors to assist families. 
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Brilliant Detroit announces new citywide summer literacy campaign to curb student learning loss

Detroit Food Academy teaches culinary. life skills to Detroit youth

Detroit Food Academy is revolutionizing the lives of young Detroiters by blending the art of cooking with life and leadership skills. <a href="https://detroitfoodacademy.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">As a nonprofit organization</a>, the Academy’s mission is to transform the lives of Detroit youth by using food as a medium to teach essential life skills, promote social justice and build vibrant communities. 
The Detroit Food Academy curriculum is designed to not only teach culinary skills, but also to foster personal and professional growth among its participants. Through experiential learning, they gain practical knowledge about food systems, sustainability, and the importance of healthy eating. 
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Additionally, the nonprofit incorporates a strong emphasis on social justice and community engagement. Students learn about food disparities, food deserts, and the importance of equitable access to nutritious food. Two of the Detroit Food Academy instructors talked with <a href="https://www.bridgedetroit.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">BridgeDetroit</a> reporter <a href="https://www.bridgedetroit.com/author/micah-walker/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Micah Walker</a> about the mission of the organization, the culinary opportunities available for young people in Detroit, and how it prepares students to become leaders in the community. 
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Detroit Food Academy cooks up the next generation of young leaders through food education

Bookstock 2023 raises money for literacy

The Detroit area&#8217;s <a href="https://www.bookstockmi.org/">largest used book and media sale</a>, Bookstock, returns this year to <a href="https://www.laurelparkplace.com/">Laurel Park Place</a> in Livonia to once again benefit literacy and education projects in Southeast Michigan. Bookstock 2023 runs April 23-30 this year and will feature more than 400,000 used books, DVDs, CDs, books on tape, vinyl records and more. Eight hundred volunteers coordinated the event. Leftover Bookstock items are donated to area nonprofits and charities in the community.   
“American Black Journal” host <a href="https://twitter.com/SHDetroit">Stephen Henderson</a> sits down with Bookstock Honorary Chairperson <a href="https://www.freep.com/staff/2646714001/neal-rubin/">Neal Rubin</a> of the Detroit Free Press, Davison Elementary School teacher Kenya Posey, and Posey’s student Syeda Tausiyah, last year’s annual Bookstock essay contest winner, to get the details about Bookstock 2023. 
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Catch the daily conversations on our<a href="https://wordpress.detroitpbs.org/category/american-black-journal/"> website</a>,<a href="https://www.facebook.com/AmericanBlackJournal/"> Facebook</a>,<a href="https://twitter.com/amblackjournal"> Twitter</a> and<a href="https://www.instagram.com/amblackjournal/"> Instagram</a> @amblackjournal.
<h3><a href="https://wordpress.detroitpbs.org/category/american-black-journal/">View Past Episodes &gt;</a></h3>
Watch American Black Journal on Tuesday at 7:30 p.m. and Sunday at 9:30 a.m. on Detroit Public TV, WTVS-Channel 56.

Bookstock 2023 raises money for literacy, education projects by recycling used media

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The nation is mourning the loss of the great civil rights leader, Congressman John Lewis, who passed away Friday after a battle with cancer. Called by many “the Conscience of Congress&#8221;, Rep. Lewis was a close associate to Martin Luther King, Jr. Brutally beaten by Alabama state troopers on the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Ala., his courage helped galvanize the nation and build support for the Voting Rights Act President Lyndon Johnson proposed to Congress eight days later.
In November 2017, Detroit Public TV partnered with the University of Michigan’s Penny Stamps Speakers Series to carry an appearance by Rep. Lewis at a packed Hill Auditorium in Ann Arbor. He spoke about his life, his work and a best-selling graphic novel trilogy he co-wrote that capturing the moral lessons he learned during his quest for social justice.
At DPTV, we are honored to once again to share his presentation, as a tribute to a towering figure in American history.
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<h3>Watch PBS documentary, &#8220;John Lewis: Get in the Way&#8221;</h3>
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John Lewis Remembered

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This Black History Month, and every other month throughout each year, American Black Journal celebrates the stories and accomplishments of African American men and women of our past, present and future.
Since its first broadcast in 1968, American Black Journal has continued to act as a forum to discuss culture, public affairs and societal concerns from an African American perspective.
As the longest running public affairs program on any local television station, American Black Journal is now a major part of not only black history, but American history in its own right. The weekly series began with a mission to increase access to media relating to African American experiences during a time of great turmoil after the 1967 Detroit riots.
Today, American Black Journal still provides a platform to share thoughts and solutions that help empower and uplift the African American community. Each week the show includes interviews, round-table discussions, field-produced features, or artistic performances featuring a variety of African American guests, ranging from local residents making an impact in their neighborhood to some of the nation&#8217;s most recognized celebrities and leaders.
Join American Black Journal in celebrating #BlackHistoryEveryday by tuning in to new episodes on WTVS &#8211; Detroit Public TV every Sunday at 9:30am ET, or watch repeat episodes on Wednesdays at 7:30pm ET. Full episodes are also available to watch online anytime at <a href="https://wordpress.detroitpbs.org/category/american-black-journal/abj-episodes/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">americanblackjournal.org</a>. You can also watch digitized versions of some of ABJ’s historic episodes, featuring important African American figures from the past 50 years <a href="http://abj.matrix.msu.edu/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">here</a>.
Featured Image: Elijah Cummings and Barack Obama, Mixed media on wood by artist <a href="https://www.desireekellyart.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Desiree Kelly</a> from the &#8220;Then and Now: A Retrospective of Portraits&#8221; series, Photo by Michael Sellers
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American Black Journal: Black History Everyday

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<h2>On the next American Black Journal,</h2>
We&#8217;re at the Detroit Regional Chamber&#8217;s Detroit Policy Conference. Stephen talks with the <a href="https://acepetroleummi.com/about/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">African-American businessman</a> who made history by signing a multi-million dollar contract with the City of Detroit to provide fuel for the city&#8217;s fleet of vehicles. And, a <a href="https://theurbanalliance.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">national non-profit organization</a> is putting young people to work and helping them learn how to become self-sufficient.
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Don&#8217;t miss American Black Journal on Sunday at 9:30 a.m. and again on Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. on Detroit Public TV, WTVS-Channel 56.
<h3><a href="http://www.pbs.org/show/american-black-journal/">View more from American Black Journal &gt;</a></h3>
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2/2/20: American Black Journal – ACE Petroleum / Urban Alliance-Detroit

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<h2>On the next American Black Journal,</h2>
The nonprofit <a href="https://detroitfuturecity.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Detroit Future City</a> opens a new center that will use extensive research, data and stakeholder engagement to promote economic <a href="https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/detroit-city/2020/01/22/detroit-future-city-creates-department-address-economic-equity/4546282002/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">equity in Detroit</a>. Plus, we&#8217;ll have advice for business owners on how to navigate the challenges and opportunities of 2020. And, a Detroit woman leaves a successful financial career to explore the world of technology.
Featured Image: Detroit skyline with night lights in Michigan. Photo by unknown via goodfreephotos.com, Public Domain cc 0.0 
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<h3>WATCH NOW:</h3>
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Don&#8217;t miss American Black Journal on Sunday at 9:30 a.m. and again on Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. on Detroit Public TV, WTVS-Channel 56.
<h3><a href="http://www.pbs.org/show/american-black-journal/">View more from American Black Journal &gt;</a></h3>
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1/26/20: American Black Journal – Detroit Future City / 2020 Business Outlook / Women & STEM Careers

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<h2>On the next American Black Journal,</h2>
We&#8217;ll take a look at the power of diversity and inclusion in the arts with The <a href="http://www.sphinxmusic.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Sphinx Organization</a>. We&#8217;ll talk about the 23rd annual Sphinx competition for young classical musicians of color, and we&#8217;ll have an in-studio performance by a talented cellist. Plus, Detroit Performs reports on the historic Harp and Vocal program at Detroit&#8217;s Cass Technical High School.
Featured Image: The Sphinx Virtuosi National Tour at Carnegie Hall, Photo courtesy of The Sphinx Organization
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Don&#8217;t miss American Black Journal on Sunday at 9:30 a.m. and again on Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. on Detroit Public TV, WTVS-Channel 56.
<h3><a href="http://www.pbs.org/show/american-black-journal/">View more from American Black Journal &gt;</a></h3>
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1/19/20: American Black Journal – Sphinx competition / Cass Tech Harp & Vocal program

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January is <a href="https://www.mentoring.org/our-work/campaigns/national-mentoring-month/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">National Mentoring Month</a>, and Stephen had Calvin Mann and Heather Miller from <a href="https://emiyworld.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Encourage Me I’m Young</a> in studio to discuss the organizations efforts to help African American boys develop their natural talents and strengthening the relationship between fathers and sons.
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Encourage Me I’m Young

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For <a href="https://www.mentoring.org/our-work/campaigns/national-mentoring-month/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">National Mentoring Month</a> Stephen sat down with Milton Eric Fletcher and Warren Galloway from <a href="https://www.brothersalsoread.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">The BAR</a> (Brothers Also Read), a fraternal literary-based organization of professional Black males who use the power of reading to mentor young men.
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The BAR (Brothers Also Read)

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<h2>On the next American Black Journal,</h2>
January is <a href="https://www.mentoring.org/our-work/campaigns/national-mentoring-month/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">National Mentoring Month</a> and Stephen talks with two organizations that are helping young African Americans develop into future leaders. We&#8217;ll talk about <a href="https://www.brothersalsoread.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">The BAR</a> (Brothers Also Read), a fraternal literary-based organization of professional Black males who use the power of reading to mentor young men.  And, <a href="https://emiyworld.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Encourage Me I&#8217;m Young</a> is helping African American boys develop their natural talents and strengthening the relationship between fathers and sons.
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<li>To learn about a mentoring program for African American girls, go to the clip below and watch Stephen&#8217;s November 3, 2019 interview with <a href="https://www.imaginementoring.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">I.M.A.G.N.E Mentoring</a> founder Latonya L. Garth.</li>
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Featured Image: Reading materials, Photo courtesy of THE BAR (Brothers Also Read)
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Don&#8217;t miss American Black Journal on Sunday at 9:30 a.m. and again on Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. on Detroit Public TV, WTVS-Channel 56.
<h3><a href="http://www.pbs.org/show/american-black-journal/">View more from American Black Journal &gt;</a></h3>
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1/12/20: American Black Journal – The BAR / Encourage Me I’m Young

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<h2>On the next American Black Journal,</h2>
Our special roundtable guests take on some of the stories in 2019 that had a significant impact on African Americans. We&#8217;ll talk about President Trump&#8217;s impeachment, the <a href="https://blacklivesmatter.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Black Lives Matter</a> and <a href="https://metoomvmt.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Me Too</a> movements, and the digital divide.
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Don&#8217;t miss American Black Journal on Sunday at 9:30 a.m. and again on Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. on Detroit Public TV, WTVS-Channel 56.
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12/29/19: American Black Journal – ABJ Roundtable

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Plans to redevelop the Shrine of the Black Madonna bookstore and cultural center are underway, we have Kandia Milton, Project Coordinator &amp; Minister, Shrine of the Black Madonna; Rhonda Smith, Reporter, <a class="profileLink" href="https://www.facebook.com/DetourDetroiter/?__tn__=K-R&amp;eid=ARB2lHvwCa1eQ1tqbk8OrOf1uOdHr34-JIkoTBkEAKr5Gl4Ko-GqESVLPjviNdj82aA1r_9pISb-iOdI&amp;fref=mentions&amp;__xts__%5B0%5D=68.ARDiBiSj362wYDifDLNWdNFlZPZJk1hRwrc3U4NWMP-ZpWn8rDXzMW3XK6flxNUs_n8faEP6rc64OxvPcWRm5mGlWvBoSuobK01XpEXbB21H2Q75umKrZYt0aV1VZ2TgzFRxTMFEY-x5lAxLCK0sLWOPhZwCPrQBBabwXYpYC6ThMZy5u1V9IMNZHKcbvmm5tCroNNSG8EybCcCuaq9Vy5TxiSQOEk2V9kSumvi0fXD9xRA-qo9WhcG8Ls5_paC7tdgT2Y8H-SJPQeLFOOXZgTv2PVs6FVfOqAlsfuV3fMNoDRAcFDwJL_RrcsleZeGgI3IvJ7ZIiPHnb25o10wP5veVyzoH00V9PcArjw" data-hovercard="/ajax/hovercard/page.php?id=307883109694217&amp;extragetparams=%7B%22__tn__%22%3A%22%2CdK-R-R%22%2C%22eid%22%3A%22ARB2lHvwCa1eQ1tqbk8OrOf1uOdHr34-JIkoTBkEAKr5Gl4Ko-GqESVLPjviNdj82aA1r_9pISb-iOdI%22%2C%22fref%22%3A%22mentions%22%7D" data-hovercard-prefer-more-content-show="1">Detour Detroit</a> and Rainy Hamilton, Principal, <a class="profileLink" href="https://www.facebook.com/hamiltonandersonassociates/?__tn__=K-R&amp;eid=ARC0tjEP1JDjiM9BHn1IrA9Jnv0Q0ijLHK-L-_EyAAAJfJrmpIVjY-1jVNUE2RsDYXq98SmcVByXig2Q&amp;fref=mentions&amp;__xts__%5B0%5D=68.ARDiBiSj362wYDifDLNWdNFlZPZJk1hRwrc3U4NWMP-ZpWn8rDXzMW3XK6flxNUs_n8faEP6rc64OxvPcWRm5mGlWvBoSuobK01XpEXbB21H2Q75umKrZYt0aV1VZ2TgzFRxTMFEY-x5lAxLCK0sLWOPhZwCPrQBBabwXYpYC6ThMZy5u1V9IMNZHKcbvmm5tCroNNSG8EybCcCuaq9Vy5TxiSQOEk2V9kSumvi0fXD9xRA-qo9WhcG8Ls5_paC7tdgT2Y8H-SJPQeLFOOXZgTv2PVs6FVfOqAlsfuV3fMNoDRAcFDwJL_RrcsleZeGgI3IvJ7ZIiPHnb25o10wP5veVyzoH00V9PcArjw" data-hovercard="/ajax/hovercard/page.php?id=454740904607751&amp;extragetparams=%7B%22__tn__%22%3A%22%2CdK-R-R%22%2C%22eid%22%3A%22ARC0tjEP1JDjiM9BHn1IrA9Jnv0Q0ijLHK-L-_EyAAAJfJrmpIVjY-1jVNUE2RsDYXq98SmcVByXig2Q%22%2C%22fref%22%3A%22mentions%22%7D" data-hovercard-prefer-more-content-show="1">Hamilton Anderson Associates</a> on hand to discuss all the details.
Featured Image: Collection of African masks, animal sculptures wood, bone, paint, carving, faces, Photo by <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/wonderlane/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Wonderlane</a> via flickr.com cc 2.0
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Shrine of the Black Madonna

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<h2>On the next American Black Journal,</h2>
The New York Times Magazine&#8217;s &#8220;<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/08/14/magazine/1619-america-slavery.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The 1619 Project</a>,&#8221; takes a comprehensive look at the start of slavery in America 400 years ago. Stephen talks with two of the initiative&#8217;s contributors about how the controversial project reframes U.S. history around the arrival of the first African slave ship in August of 1619. Plus, in light of the recent entertainment partnership between <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/newsbeat-49420465" target="_blank" rel="noopener">rapper Jay-Z and the NFL</a>, we&#8217;ll talk about the concept of &#8220;entertainment justice&#8221; with music producer, artist and social justice activist Bryce Anderson, aka <a href="http://aboutthemselves.com/2017/04/20/bryce-detroit/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Bryce Detroit</a>. 
Featured Image: Stowage of the British slave ship Brookes under the regulated slave trade act of 1788, <a href="https://www.loc.gov/rr/print/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Print</a> by the <a href="https://www.loc.gov/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">United States Library of Congress</a>
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Don&#8217;t miss American Black Journal on Sunday at 9:30 a.m. and again on Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. on Detroit Public TV, WTVS-Channel 56.
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9/8/19: American Black Journal – The 1619 Project / Entertainment Social Justice

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<h2>On the next American Black Journal,</h2>
Stephen talks with the new CEO of the <a href="https://www.bgcsm.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Boys &amp; Girls Clubs</a> of Southeastern Michigan, Shawn Wilson, about his partnership with Detroit rapper Big Sean and his efforts to transform the facilities in the area. And, we&#8217;ll hear from Big Sean at the reveal of a content and production studio at the Boys &amp; Girls Club in the Cody-Rouge neighborhood, funded by his <a href="https://www.seanandersonfoundation.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Sean Anderson Foundation</a>.  Plus, we&#8217;ll talk with two young African American executives who are working to develop and support other <a href="https://www.philanthropy.com/interactives/20190709_LeadersOfColor" target="_blank" rel="noopener">leaders of color</a> in the non-profit sector.
Featured Image: Leadership, Photo by <a href="https://pixabay.com/users/wokandapix-614097/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Wokandapix</a> via pixabay.com cc 2.0 
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Don&#8217;t miss American Black Journal on Sunday at 9:30 a.m. and again on Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. on Detroit Public TV, WTVS-Channel 56.
<h3><a href="http://www.pbs.org/show/american-black-journal/">View more from American Black Journal &gt;</a></h3>
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9/1/19: American Black Journal – Boys & Girls Clubs / Non-Profit Leaders of Color

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<h2>On the next American Black Journal,</h2>
Stephen sits down with local writer <a href="https://www.freep.com/staff/27945/mark-stryker/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Mark Stryker</a> to talk about his new book, &#8220;<a href="https://www.freep.com/story/entertainment/music/2019/06/30/jazz-from-detroit-mark-stryker-book-excerpt/1590096001/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jazz From Detroit</a>,&#8221; which traces the city&#8217;s profound influence on modern and contemporary jazz. Plus, a new <a href="https://familypicturesusa.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">PBS series</a> explores America&#8217;s history and diversity through the pages of family photo albums, and Detroit is featured in an episode. One Detroit&#8217;s Will Glover catches up with the show&#8217;s Executive Producer <a href="https://familypicturesusa.com/about/team-2/don-perry/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Don Perry</a> during his recent visit to the city.
Featured Image: Michelle Lanier of North Carolina presenting her grandmother Ann Eliza Lanier Caution, Photo by <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/familypicturesusa/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Family Pictures USA</a> via flickr.com 
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Don&#8217;t miss American Black Journal on Sunday at 9:30 a.m. and again on Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. on Detroit Public TV, WTVS-Channel 56.
<h3><a href="http://www.pbs.org/show/american-black-journal/">View more from American Black Journal &gt;</a></h3>
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8/4/19: American Black Journal – Jazz From Detroit / Family Pictures USA

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<h2>On the next American Black Journal,</h2>
Several of the 2020 presidential <a href="https://people.com/politics/2020-presidential-candidates-so-far/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">candidates</a> give <a href="https://www.vox.com/identities/2019/5/29/18643125/black-voters-election-democrats-black-census-project-survey" target="_blank" rel="noopener">African American voters</a> their solutions to <a href="https://www.blackenterprise.com/democrat-debates-where-each-candidate-stands-on-african-american-voter-issues/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">critical issues</a> affecting communities of color.  We&#8217;ll have a report from the candidates&#8217; forum at the <a href="https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/detroit/2019/07/20/naacp-detroit-convention-presidential-election/1786008001/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">NAACP</a> National Convention in Detroit. Plus, the &#8220;<a href="http://gdyt.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Grow Detroit&#8217;s Young Talent</a>&#8221; program is putting 8,000 teenagers and young adults to work this summer. Stephen talks with a participant, an employer and the program&#8217;s manager.
 
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Don&#8217;t miss American Black Journal on Sunday at 9:30 a.m. and again on Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. on Detroit Public TV, WTVS-Channel 56.
<h3><a href="http://www.pbs.org/show/american-black-journal/">View more from American Black Journal &gt;</a></h3>
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7/28/19: American Black Journal – NAACP Presidential Candidates Forum / Grow Detroit’s Young Talent

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<h2>On the next American Black Journal,</h2>
Two African American female poets honored by the <a href="http://www.kresgeartsindetroit.org/2019/06/20/congratulations-to-the-2019-kresge-artist-fellows-and-gilda-award-recipients" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Kresge Arts in Detroit</a> initiative talk about the inspiration behind their literary works. Plus, a former urban school administrator writes about her experiences in a new book titled, &#8220;<a href="https://www.newswire.com/news/shelley-mcintosh-ed-d-s-new-book-a-principals-tale-is-a-profound-20424871" target="_blank" rel="noopener">A Principal&#8217;s Tale: Life in 31 Days</a>.&#8221;
Featured Image: <a href="https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/langston-hughes" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Langston Hughes</a>, Image by artist <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winold_Reiss" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Winold Reiss</a>, wikimedia via United States Library of Congress 
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Don&#8217;t miss American Black Journal on Sunday at 9:30 a.m. and again on Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. on Detroit Public TV, WTVS-Channel 56.
<h3><a href="http://www.pbs.org/show/american-black-journal/">View more from American Black Journal &gt;</a></h3>
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7/7/19: American Black Journal – Kresge Eminent Artist & Kresge Artist Fellow / A Principal’s Tale

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<h2>On the next American Black Journal,</h2>
&nbsp; A new exhibit at the Detroit Historical Museum focuses on the <a href="https://nlbm.com/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Negro Leagues</a>&#8216; professional baseball team, the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Detroit_Stars" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Detroit Stars</a>. This year marks the 100th anniversary of the founding of the team, which featured legendary outfielder, Norman &#8220;Turkey&#8221; Stearnes. Stephen talks with Stearne&#8217;s daughter, Joyce, and members of the Detroit Black Historic Sites Committee, Detroit Historical Society, and Friends of Historic <a href="https://www.hamtramckstadium.org/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Hamtramck Stadium</a>, where the Detroit Stars played ball. Plus, a crowdfunding campaign is in the homestretch for the Detroit Public Schools Foundation. We&#8217;ll get an update on the fundraiser from the organization&#8217;s CEO. &nbsp; Featured Image: Detroit Stars Exhibit at the Detroit Historical Museum, Photo by Michael Sellers &nbsp;
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Don&#8217;t miss American Black Journal on Sunday at 9:30 a.m. and again on Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. on Detroit Public TV, WTVS-Channel 56.
<h3><a href="http://www.pbs.org/show/american-black-journal/">View more from American Black Journal &gt;</a></h3>
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6/23/19: American Black Journal – Negro Leagues & Detroit Stars Exhibit / DPS Foundation

2019-05-23_1711

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<h2>On the next American Black Journal,</h2>
A Harlem-based program that puts books in barbershops launches in Detroit. We&#8217;ll get details on how the initiative is aimed at improving literacy rates for African-American boys. Plus, the Detroit Chapter president of the National Association of Black Women in Construction talks about how her organization provides a voice &#8212; and opportunities &#8211; for females in a male-dominated industry. And, we&#8217;ll air a short documentary that&#8217;s making the rounds at local film festivals. It&#8217;s about a Detroit boxing coach who provides life lessons to the young students he trains. 
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Don&#8217;t miss American Black Journal on Sunday at 9:30 a.m. and again on Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. on Detroit Public TV, WTVS-Channel 56. <a href="http://www.pbs.org/show/american-black-journal/">View more from American Black Journal &gt;</a>
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5/26/19: American Black Journal – Barbershop Books / National Association of Black Women in Construction

2019-05-17_0926

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<h2>On the next American Black Journal,</h2>
Detroit&#8217;s oldest Black-owned funeral home celebrates its 100th year in business. Stephen talks with the third and fourth generation family members who are running the business today. Plus, there&#8217;s a new online tool that will help parents find programs to keep their children engaged and active in educational activities during the summer break.
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Don&#8217;t miss American Black Journal on Sunday at 9:30 a.m. and again on Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. on Detroit Public TV, WTVS-Channel 56. <a href="http://www.pbs.org/show/american-black-journal/">View more from American Black Journal &gt;</a>
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5/19/19: American Black Journal – James H. Cole Home for Funerals / Summer Spark

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Detroit&#8217;s own civil rights icon, federal judge Damon Keith, passed away this weekend. He was 96. One Detroit contributor, Stephen Henderson sat down with Judge Damon Keith in 2014 for an in-depth interview on his career, his life, and his biography, &#8220;Crusader for Justice: Federal Judge Damon J. Keith&#8221;.
Watch the entire interview here:
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In his op-ed, One Detroit&#8217;s Nolan Finley reflected on Judge Damon Keith&#8217;s legacy. He writes, &#8220;The late Judge Damon Keith was descended from people for whom the United States Constitution and its Bill of Rights were hollow words formed from lofty ideals that didn’t apply to them.
Yet if you walk into any federal courthouse, and countless other public and private offices throughout the country, the plaque on the wall commemorating the 200th anniversary of those documents bears the name of Detroit’s Judge Damon J. Keith, who served as chairman of the bicentennial.
Rather than rejecting the Constitution for its hypocrisy, Keith spent a lifetime wielding it as a weapon against racism, segregation and discrimination.&#8221;
Read the entire article here: <a href="https://www.detroitnews.com/story/opinion/2019/04/28/finley-damon-keith-spent-lifetime-fighting-justice/3608654002/"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" src="https://www.detroitpbs.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/detroitnews.png" alt="" width="41" height="34" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-3878"></a>
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Crusader for Justice: Judge Damon Keith

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<h2 style="text-align: center;">Are the Kids All Right?The Well-Being of Children</h2>
“One Detroit” and “American Black Journal” hosted a Roadshow on what we need to do so our children can prosper
WATCH ON DETROIT PUBLIC TV THUR, APRIL 25 AT 7PM ET
What is keeping some of our kids from living a full life? How do issues such as food and housing insecurity and mental health affect their lives and future?
The team from Detroit Public TV’s “One Detroit” and “American Black Journal” addressed these issues in a live Roadshow – “Are the Kids All Right? The Well-being of Children” – at City Covenant Church&nbsp; in the Brightmoor neighborhood.
This community conversation took a 360-degree view of the well-being of children and explored how residents in Brightmoor are working towards solutions that will give kids the best life possible – a promising career, access to health and educational opportunities and, most of all, the <a href="https://www.detroitpbs.org/wellbeing/">support that will allow them to thrive</a>.
One Detroit’s Christy McDonald, Stephen Henderson and Nolan Finley lead the discussion.
This roadshow is part of DPTV’s ongoing commitment to community-based engagement. Our One Detroit team doesn’t just visit neighborhoods like Brightmoor but immerses itself in the lives of the community, to better understand the needs and aspirations of their residents – the authentic stories of the people of Detroit and the region. The welfare of children – the concerns parents have and the solutions they seek – are always front of mind to the people we speak to.
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Are the Kids All Right? The Well-Being of Children Roadshow

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<h2>On the next American Black Journal</h2>
The <a href="https://www.everyschooldaycountsdetroit.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Every School Day Counts Detroit</a> campaign is part of a <a href="https://nces.ed.gov/pubs2009/attendancedata/chapter1a.asp" target="_blank" rel="noopener">national initiative</a> to combat chronic student absences, which tend to peak after spring break. The campaign includes a citywide student-to-student &#8220;challenge&#8221; demonstrating reasons to be engaged and present at school.&nbsp; Plus, Wayne County Prosecutor Kym Worthy and her father Clifford talk with Stephen about Clifford&#8217;s new autobiography detailing the segregation and other struggles he experienced at <a href="https://www.ebony.com/news/west-point-racism/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">West Point</a> and in the Army.
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Don&#8217;t miss American Black Journal on Sunday at 9:30 a.m. and again on Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. on Detroit Public TV, WTVS-Channel 56.
<h3><a href="http://www.pbs.org/show/american-black-journal/">View more from American Black Journal &gt;</a></h3>
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4/14/19: American Black Journal – Every School Day Counts Detroit / The Black Knight

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<h2>On the next American Black Journal</h2>
A Detroit Free Press analysis of mortgage data shows a small number of Blacks are getting mortgages in Detroit. We&#8217;ll talk about the racial disparities in lending and the state of the mortgage market in the city.  Plus, two local African-American chefs join Stephen to talk about the impact of Detroit&#8217;s burgeoning restaurant scene on Black-owned restaurants.
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Don&#8217;t miss American Black Journal on Sunday at 9:30 a.m. and again on Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. on Detroit Public TV, WTVS-Channel 56.
<h3><a href="http://www.pbs.org/show/american-black-journal/">View more from American Black Journal &gt;</a></h3>
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3/31/19: American Black Journal – Detroit Mortgages / Black Chefs

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<h2>On the next American Black Journal</h2>
The new CEO of the <a href="http://www.degc.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Detroit Economic Growth Corporation</a>, Kevin Johnson, talks with Stephen about his vision and priorities for driving investment, creating jobs and growing Detroit&#8217;s economy.  Plus, we&#8217;ll get details on the Detroit-area&#8217;s largest <a href="https://www.bookstockmi.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">used book and media</a> sale that&#8217;s raising money for local education and literacy projects.
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Don&#8217;t miss American Black Journal on Sunday at 9:30 a.m. and again on Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. on Detroit Public TV, WTVS-Channel 56.
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3/24/19: American Black Journal – Detroit Economic Growth Corporation / Bookstock 2019

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<h2>On the next American Black Journal</h2>
Stephen gets details on the special <a href="https://mymodernmet.com/cristi-smith-jones-black-history-month-photo-project/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Black History Month</a> programming at the <a href="https://thewright.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Charles H. Wright Museum</a> of African American History, which includes a book talk and signing and a tribute to Detroit&#8217;s pioneering hip-hop producer <a href="http://www.j-dilla.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">J. Dilla</a>.  Plus, a new book uses DNA evidence and the findings of historians and scientists to prove the presence of people of African descent in <a href="https://bibleisblackhistory.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">biblical history</a>.
Featured Image: Frederick Douglass, “<a href="http://mentalfloss.com/article/92216/20-powerful-quotes-frederick-douglass" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave</a>.” Engraved by J.C. Buttre from a daguerretotype (public domain)
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Don&#8217;t miss American Black Journal on Sunday at 9:30 a.m. and again on Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. on Detroit Public TV, WTVS-Channel 56.
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2/10/19: American Black Journal – Black History Month at The Wright / The Bible is Black History

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The non-profit &#8220;<a href="http://brilliantdetroit.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Brilliant Detroit</a>&#8221; is on a mission to make sure that families have what they need to prepare their children for school and create a healthy, stable environment. Stephen Henderson speaks with Brilliant Detroit Co-founder &amp; CEO, Cindy Eggleton, community partner Kenyatta Stephens from <a href="http://www.blackfamilydevelopment.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Black Family Development</a> and Jasmine Mahone a Brilliant Detroit participant, about the organizations unique neighborhood approach to creating successful families.
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American Black Journal airs Wednesdays at 7:30 PM and Sundays at 9:30 AM on <a href="http://www.dptv.org/home/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Detroit Public Television</a>.
Featured Image: Children doing homework, Photo by Brilliant Detroit
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Brilliant Detroit | American Black Journal Clip

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<h2>On the next American Black Journal</h2>
A volunteer <a href="http://www.mlktaskforcemi.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">grassroots organization</a> is keeping Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.&#8217;s legacy alive through its annual <a href="https://www.cityofsouthfield.com/NewsEvents/tabid/158/newsid1480/2427/mid/1480/34th-annual-Southfield-MLK-Peace-Walk-Celebration-set-for-Monday-January-21--/Default.aspx" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Peace Walk</a> in Southfield on the King Holiday.  Nearly 2,000 people take part in the walk, program and tastefest.  Plus, the non-profit organization <a href="http://brilliantdetroit.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Brilliant Detroit</a> uses a unique neighborhood approach to creating successful families with children who are ready for school and thriving in a healthy and stable environment.
Featured Image: Martin Luther King, Jr., Photo by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoichi_Okamoto" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Yoichi Okamoto</a>, Lyndon B. Johnson Library and Museum via wikimedia
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Don&#8217;t miss American Black Journal on Sunday at 9:30 a.m. and again on Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. on Detroit Public TV, WTVS-Channel 56.
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1/20/19: American Black Journal – Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Task Force / Brilliant Detroit

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<h2>On the next American Black Journal</h2>
The new owner of Aretha Franklin&#8217;s Detroit home talks with Stephen about his vision for the historic mansion, the importance of preserving Detroit homes, and African American home ownership.  Plus, families in an east side Detroit neighborhood get access to early childhood education with the opening of the area&#8217;s first &#8220;Birth to 5&#8221; Head Start center. It&#8217;s all part of revitalization efforts in the once thriving community known as Regent Park.
Featured Image: Kristin Shaw
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Don&#8217;t miss American Black Journal on Sunday at 9:30 a.m. and again on Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. on Detroit Public TV, WTVS-Channel 56.
<h3><a href="http://www.pbs.org/show/american-black-journal/">View more from American Black Journal &gt;</a></h3>
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12/16/18: American Black Journal – Aretha Franklin’s Detroit Home / “Birth to 5”

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<h2>On the next American Black Journal</h2>
This year marks what would have been Detroit <a href="https://michronicleonline.com/2018/05/24/coleman-a-young-a-history-of-the-peoples-mayor/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Mayor Coleman Young</a>&#8216;s 100th birthday. Stephen talks with the head of the <a href="http://www.cayf.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Coleman A. Young Foundation</a> about the <a href="https://www.freep.com/story/news/columnists/rochelle-riley/2018/05/24/mayor-coleman-young-rochelle-riley/638902002/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Mayor&#8217;s legacy</a>, how the foundation is preparing Detroit youth for college and beyond, and an upcoming fundraiser featuring comedian D.L. Hughley.  Plus, a special look at the issue of children frequently changing schools in Detroit. We&#8217;ll share a portion of a WDET/DPTV public discussion about the causes, consequences and possible solutions.
Featured Image: #GoYoung, Photo by Coleman A. Young Foundation
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Don&#8217;t miss American Black Journal on Sunday at 9:30 a.m. and again on Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. on Detroit Public TV, WTVS-Channel 56.
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11/25/18: American Black Journal – Coleman A. Young / Student Mobility Discussion

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<h2>On the next American Black Journal</h2>
Detroit&#8217;s <a href="https://wayne.edu/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Wayne State University</a> is celebrating a major milestone as it welcomes a huge, new financial gift from a married couple who are former WSU students.  Plus, people with <a href="https://www.aapd.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">disabilities</a>, senior citizens and veterans work to make sure political candidates hear their concerns this election year.  And, the CEO of <a href="http://www.goodwill.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Goodwill Industries</a> talks with Stephen about how his organization is preparing Detroiters for the workforce.
Featured Image: Wayne State University&#8217;s Old Main, Photo by Del arte via wikimedia
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Don&#8217;t miss American Black Journal on Sunday at 9:30 a.m. and again on Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. on Detroit Public TV, WTVS-Channel 56.
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11/4/18: American Black Journal – Wayne State University 150th Anniversary / Disability Network/ Goodwill of Greater Detroit

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<h2>On the next American Black Journal</h2>
An unprecedented philanthropic commitment by <a href="https://www.crainsdetroit.com/education/kresge-puts-50-million-behind-marygrove-cradle-college-center" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Kresge Foundation</a> is creating a &#8220;<a href="https://www.freep.com/story/news/education/2018/09/12/school-campus-marygrove-college/1272309002/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">cradle-to-college</a>&#8221; educational center at Detroit&#8217;s <a href="https://www.marygrove.edu/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Marygrove College</a>. Stephen talks with some of the key partners in this new collaboration. Plus, in a special <a href="https://www.detroitperforms.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Detroit Performs</a> report, we meet a spoken word artist who is educating Detroit children on the power of writing and words.
Featured Image: A student in the audience waves during First Lady Michelle Obama&#8217;s remarks for the Tuskegee University, Photo by Chuck Kennedy via <a href="https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">obamawhitehouse.archives.gov</a>
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Don&#8217;t miss American Black Journal on Sunday at 9:30 a.m. and again on Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. on Detroit Public TV, WTVS-Channel 56.
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10/28/18: American Black Journal P-20 Educational Partnership / Spoken Word Artist

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<h2>On the next American Black Journal</h2>
Stephen talks with the new <a href="https://www.crainsdetroit.com/article/20180808/news/667991/focus-hope-taps-portia-roberson-as-new-ceo" target="_blank" rel="noopener">CEO of Focus</a>: HOPE, as the non-profit gets ready for its 44th annual <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZHazes54l14" target="_blank" rel="noopener">March for HOPE</a>. Thousands will march later this month in celebration of unity and the commitment to overcome racism, poverty, and injustice.  Plus, the Detroit Public Schools Foundation is honoring the <a href="https://www.wkkf.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">W.K. Kellogg Foundation</a> and Educators of the Year at its annual Champions of Education fundraiser. The president of the <a href="http://www.dpsfdn.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">DPS Foundation</a> shares the details.
Featured Image: Photo from 2017 March for Hope, Photo by focushope.edu
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10/7/18: FOCUS: HOPE “MARCH FOR HOPE” / DPS FOUNDATION “CHAMPIONS OF EDUCATION”

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Stephen Henderson: Welcome to American Black Journal. I&#8217;m Stephen Henderson. Each year thousands of teenagers and young adults get an opportunity to work during the summer through the Grow Detroit&#8217;s Young Talent program. For some, it&#8217;s the first time they&#8217;ve been exposed to the workplace. For others, it&#8217;s a chance to build their work readiness skills and gain experience in their chosen career fields. Meanwhile, employers are being introduced the next generation workforce. Here to tell us more is Jason Lee. He&#8217;s the executive director of Grow Detroit&#8217;s Young Talent along with employer Shawna Johnson Norfolk and program participant Akira Wright. Thanks for being here.
Jason Lee &amp; Shauna Norfolk: Thank you for having us.
Stephen Henderson: So this is the third year of Grow Detroit&#8217;s Young Talent, is that right?
Jason Lee: So yes so Grow Detroit&#8217;s Young Talent we&#8217;ve historically had a summer youth program in the city of Detroit. But under Mayor Dugan&#8217;s leadership he&#8217;s adopted Grow Detroit&#8217;s Young Talent as one of his pillars in the community. And the program went from 2000 young people to 5000 under Mayor Duggan&#8217;s leadership. And this year we&#8217;re serving over eight thousand young people in the city of Detroit.
Stephen Henderson: Right. And the importance of that program. We can&#8217;t sort of overstate that. You think about the things that lurk for trouble for teens in the city in the summer. This is a primary way of redirecting them of saying &#8216;Hey, here&#8217;s something for you to do that&#8217;s not just not dangerous. It&#8217;s something productive. It&#8217;s going to help you now, it&#8217;s gonna help you in the future&#8217;.
Jason Lee: Absolutely. I think that everyone recognizes their first employment opportunity, getting that first paycheck. 
And what Grow Detroit&#8217;s Young Talent is doing beyond just giving kids something to do is giving them an opportunity to earn that first&#8211;that first check. As the mayor&#8217;s summer youth program, we are providing tremendous opportunities for Detroit residents 14 to 24 to participate in the workforce and be a contributor to Detroit.
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Stephen Henderson: Yeah yeah. You&#8217;re one of the employers to participate. Tell us about your business and about your experience with these young people.
Shauna Norfolk: Yes I am I&#8217;m an employer. My company is Be Legacy Solutions and our goal is to work with growing Detroit young talent is to employ young people give them time readiness skills also give them the opportunity and the ability to have some hands on training. Anything from attire, interviewing skills, and they also have had an opportunity to do some site visits with some local churches at 36th District Court. And so our goal is really to prepare them for the opportunities that lie ahead.
Stephen Henderson: What&#8217;s what&#8217;s the nature of the business that you.
Shauna Norfolk: The nature of the business is basically training and coaching and personal development.
Stephen Henderson: Yeah yeah and what&#8217;s the response you get from from the young people?
Shauna Norfolk: The response from the young people was very positive in the beginning. You know they&#8217;re a little to it because they don&#8217;t know what to expect. It&#8217;s not a regular working environment as they would expect. And so we come in and we do a lot of team building a lot of networking and then there are some assessments of their strengths and their talents. So it was unlike anything that they&#8217;ve had before. But naturally as we progress they progress and they improve over time.
Stephen Henderson: And how long has your business been participating in&#8211;
Shauna Norfolk: This is my first year participating with Grow Detroit&#8217;s Young Talent.
Stephen Henderson: Yeah. So you&#8217;ll come back next summer, you think?
Shauna Norfolk: Hopefully they&#8217;ll have me back to come back and continue to develop our young talent in the city of Detroit because it&#8217;s very important that we have a product as well to send out into the city and to other states across the nation. So my goal is to help do that.
Jason Lee: Yeah and what Be Legacy is providing is what we call it an industry led training opportunities. So, we have students in a very diverse employment range of opportunities. And so whether it&#8217;s working at a company, whether it&#8217;s in automotive or one of the companies that downtown in the city of Detroit or even a small business we&#8217;re giving kids diverse experiences and in alignment with their skill sets are also their needs and interests. Yeah so Be Legacy&#8217;s providing tremendous opportunities for get kids additional foundation so kids are essentially getting paid to learn about themselves. So that&#8217;s a one of our newer initiatives for 2018.
Stephen Henderson: Yeah yeah. So, Akira, you&#8217;re one of the participants in Grow Detroit&#8217;s Young Talent this summer. Tell us what you did and how you found it.
Akira Wright: Well, what I did. Her program helped me learn more about myself and get life. I knew my strengths; we had a strength finder. So I knew my strengths, I just didn&#8217;t know how to use them. And through the program I learned how to use my strengths, like how to be a better leader because you can you can be a leader, but that don&#8217;t you&#8217;re a good leader. I learned how to be a better leader and just a positive person overall. Like even if I wasn&#8217;t getting paid, I would still do her program. Her program is so amazing like I think it should be a year-round.
Stephen Henderson: So, what year are you in school?
Akira Wright: 2019, I&#8217;m a senior now. .
Stephen Henderson: OK now you&#8217;re gonna graduate in the spring. Talk about how this has framed for you the way you think of your work life after high school or after college. Has this really sort of helped you helped you decide what you&#8217;re interested in. Honestly, just doing this program like the career options are endless. Like we&#8217;ve just seen a judge, and she was so confident like very confident. And I was like, &#8216;I want to be a judge&#8217;, but then we saw a psychologist before that and I&#8217;m like I want to be a psychiatrist. Like I want to be a motivated and I want to be a motivating speaker. I want to be like&#8211;I want to be a entrepreneur just like the options are endless.
Stephen Henderson: Yeah yeah. And the idea that this work experience sort of opens up those options and sort of the idea behind it is the more you are exposed to things the more curious you might be about other&#8211;.
Akira Wright: It did teach me like that I want to work with people; like I like networking and the CAP program also taught me about networking. So this is just like both programs were just so amazing.
Stephen Henderson: The CAP program she&#8217;s mentioning is something new you have with&#8211; .
Jason Lee: Yes absolutely. So we&#8217;re really excited this year. 
We partnered with Detroit Public Schools Community District and also at the United Way to create what we call the CAP program which is the Career Academy Program. Looking at the lens and other urban communities and other youth employment programs, there&#8217;s been a push for us to have a year-round work readiness program. So this is a pilot. We&#8217;ve worked with five Detroit Public School Community District&#8217;s high schools. Cody, Randolph, Osborn, Western International, and Ben Carson. And we picked a segment of students participate in that group. They are receiving year-round work readiness support as well as a career specialist to kind of support them throughout their work pathways and also removing any barriers that may be impeding them from an academic perspective also. So, Akira was part of our group of Ben Carson. And you know we kind of walked through the process of becoming a an employee through GDYT. We provided additional levels of work readiness training in addition to that we also provided what we call work readiness behavioral health awareness training through a partnership [with] Detroit Mental Health Authority. So over 1500 young people who participated in GDYT received what we call behavioral awareness training, which we recognize there are some obstacles that many people are facing that are preventing them from being either employed or maintaining employment. So the training is becoming a critical component of our work moving forward. When you are looking to hire people your business. Talk about some of the things that you see are lacking here in the city of Detroit that maybe made up for by programs like this.
Shauna Norfolk: One of the things that I see not necessarily lacking but needs improvement leadership and our young people need to know and be taught that they are leaders and that they can be leaders. And one of the other things is identifying what are their strengths. And that&#8217;s one of the first things they do when they come into the program because they know they have talent. They know they&#8217;re really good at things. But how do I harness those and put those on a pathway so that I can do what I need to do and not feel necessarily like work. So understanding what your strengths are and not focusing on only on the weaknesses, I think, is very helpful for our young people so that they don&#8217;t they don&#8217;t feel so defeated every time something needs to improve, and so they can start from a place of leverage because they know what they&#8217;re good at. And the ability to lead&#8211;to walk into a room and be a leader and understand and make connections and networking you know this is you know the the social media age. So some of that high touch has been lacking and so one of the things that we do in the program is we force the young people to interact with each other and get to know each other.
Stephen Henderson: That&#8217;s interesting outside of social media. Face to face which a lot of young people are not really interested right.
Shauna Norfolk: They are not they are not. But the first day when they walked in I told them you all will become a family at the end of the six weeks, and you know we&#8217;re going to put the phones down and just engage with one another just learn small things about each other because we&#8217;re all humans and we all have a lot of similarities and so they&#8217;ve taken that to a new level.
Stephen Henderson: I&#8217;ll bet they have talk about how this fits in with the work that you do in school. You&#8217;re at Ben Carson, is that right? Does this dovetail nicely with what they&#8217;re trying to prepare you for?
Akira Wright: Yes like basically, they teach her&#8211;both programs teach critical thinking skills and in school, you&#8217;re going to need that. Also, she got us ready for like, filling out the basic information for college and stuff that would be like stuff that school don&#8217;t teach&#8211;.
Stephen Henderson: That they&#8217;re not going to make sure that you know how to do, right?
Akira Wright: Yeah.
Stephen Henderson: Are you thinking about applying to college for the next year? And so this helped out.
Akira Wright: Yes.
Stephen Henderson: Talk about into the future Grow Detroit&#8217;s Young Talent. This has grown a lot over the last three years. What else is on tap?
Jason Lee: So I think that we&#8217;re going to see continued partnership with industry led training opportunities as well as working with the leading companies that are here in the city but also with small businesses small and medium sized businesses. We did a partnership with Motor City match and we provided an intern to the Motor City match winners for this year. And it was a tremendous experience as we talked to Motor City fashion agencies that are working with businesses that are trying to either grow here in Detroit or be here, the conversation around talent continues to come up. So this is an opportunity to for businesses to get a insight into what type of talent is here and meet people like Akira and actually give them exposure to those opportunities for future careers.
Stephen Henderson: Yeah, and the pipeline for this, does it flow through DPSCD and other schools for the program?
Jason Lee: We had over 13,000 young people apply for the program for internship opportunities this summer and it is a cross-section of all of Detroit. To qualify for Grow Detroit&#8217;s Young Talent. There&#8217;s two simple factors: you have to be a Detroit resident and be between 14 and 24 years of age.
Stephen Henderson: Ok, ok, Right. So you&#8217;re getting all kinds of people coming through.
Jason Lee: Absolutely. So we&#8217;re going to do some strategic planning moving forward and look at how do we continue to have a model that&#8217;s relevant to the community that is important to the business community. And we&#8217;ve received tremendous amount of support from business and the philanthropic community here in Detroit. We are a very generous community that believes in the young people and its future.
Stephen Henderson: OK, well, congratulations on all the good work, and congratulations, Akira, on a successful productive summer. I didn&#8217;t have many of those when I was a teenager, so, you&#8217;re ahead of the game. Thanks for being here.
Jason Lee: Thank you.
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American Black Journal | Grow Detroit’s Young Talent

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<div align="left">On the next American Black Journal, the<a href="http://gdyt.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> Grow Detroit&#8217;s Young Talent</a> program provided summer employment opportunities for 8,000 youth and young adults in the city.  Stephen talks with the head of the program about this year&#8217;s success and how the program benefits young people and Detroit employers. Plus, the newly-formed<a href="https://www.skillman.org/people/community-education-commission/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> Community Education Commission</a> has released its<a href="http://www.detroitschoolsguide.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/DPGS-FULLProof2.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> Detroit Parents&#8217; Guide </a>to Schools for the 2018-19 academic year. We&#8217;ll learn what information is in the guide and how it helps parents make educational choices for their children. </div>
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Don&#8217;t miss American Black Journal on Sunday at 9:30 a.m. and again on Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. on Detroit Public TV, WTVS-Channel 56.
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08/26/18: GROW DETROIT’S YOUNG TALENT / COMMUNITY EDUCATION COMMISSION

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On the next episode of American Black Journal:
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<li>Launch Michigan  &#8211; A statewide effort to improve K-12 education outcomes in Michigan brings together a diverse group of business, education, labor, philanthropy, and community leaders. Stephen talks with members of the new Launch Michigan education alliance.</li>
<li>Family Assistance for Renaissance Men &#8211; A local non-profit is helping men become better fathers.  We&#8217;ll meet the founder and two of the program&#8217;s participants.</li>
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Don&#8217;t miss American Black Journal on Sunday at 9:30 a.m. and again on Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. on Detroit Public TV, WTVS-Channel 56.
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<a href="https://launchmichigan.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Launch Michigan</a>
<a href="http://farm-mi.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Family Assistance for Renaissance Men</a>
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7/1/18: Launch Michigan / Family Assistance for Renaissance Men

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On the next American Black Journal: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cfotp32rFK0&amp;list=PLwe1DQGIxfLOa2s6dLwpXQprZcuvhwu1S&amp;index=54" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Who killed Dr. Martin Luther King</a>, Jr. fifty years ago?  We&#8217;ll delve into the decades long belief by some that Dr. King&#8217;s assassination was the result of a government plot. Stephen talks with William Pepper, the former attorney for the King family and the author of a book detailing the conspiracy theory.
Plus, a Detroit entrepreneur gives back to his alma mater Cass Technical High School by awarding <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SjFjfl6-Dow&amp;list=PLwe1DQGIxfLOa2s6dLwpXQprZcuvhwu1S&amp;index=55" target="_blank" rel="noopener">scholarships</a> and Internships to the next generation of civic leaders.
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Don&#8217;t miss American Black Journal on Sunday at 9:30 a.m. and again on Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. on Detroit Public TV, WTVS-Channel 56.
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4/8/18: American Black Journal | The Plot To Kill King, Cass Tech Scholarships

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This special episode of “American Black Journal” – Detroit Public Television’s landmark weekly news show – features a special, in-depth conversation with award-winning filmmaker, Stanley Nelson. He will discuss his career, his mission as a chronicler of the Black experience and his most recent documentary, &#8220;Tell Them We Are Rising,&#8221; which traces the rich history and enduring influence of America&#8217;s historically Black colleges and universities.
This conversation took place at the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History after a public screening of his documentary on historically black colleges and universities in this country. In a wide-ranging and insightful interview, we gain a personal understanding of this outstanding filmmaker, his approach to his subject matter and what it means for Black artists to control the narrative surrounding their community’s experiences and vision for the future.
It is compelling viewing, the kind you will only find on public television and the kind that DPTV has been proud to bring you for half a century on “American Black Journal.”
Born out of the Detroit rebellion of 1967, a time of social upheaval and racial unrest, “American Black Journal” was created to give the Black community a meaningful media platform and a greater voice in the issues that affected its quality of life.
Nelson has won numerous awards for his documentary treatments of Black American life and culture – including “The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution,” “The Murder of Emmett Till,” and “Freedom Riders.”
“Tell Them We Are Rising” captures the rich history of  America’s Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs), which  began before the end of slavery, flourished in the 20th century, and profoundly influenced the course of the nation for over 150 years. Yet it remains largely unknown.
Join the conversation online about Nelson’s landmark films and inspiring career using the hashtag #HBCUrising and tagging @amblackjournal.
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A Conversation with Stanley Nelson

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As we commemorate the 50th anniversary of American Black Journal, we&#8217;ll have a special, in-depth conversation with award-winning filmmaker Stanley Nelson.  American Black Journal contributor Marlowe Stoudamire talks to Nelson about his newest documentary, &#8220;Tell Them We Are Rising,&#8221; which traces the rich history and significant influence of America&#8217;s historically Black colleges and universities.
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Don&#8217;t miss American Black Journal on Sunday at 9:30 a.m. and again on Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. on Detroit Public TV, WTVS-Channel 56.
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Don&#8217;t miss American Black Journal on Sunday at 9:30 a.m. and again on Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. on Detroit Public TV, WTVS-Channel 56.
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4/1/18: Stanley Nelson, Filmmaker, “Tell Them We Are Rising”

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On the next American Black Journal, two legacy institutions that made their mark in Black history are teaming up for a celebration of excellence in music. We&#8217;ll get details on an upcoming benefit for a <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ReX777dQSd0&amp;index=80&amp;list=PLwe1DQGIxfLOa2s6dLwpXQprZcuvhwu1S" target="_blank" rel="noopener">historically Black college</a> alumni association and the Motown Museum. Plus, a Detroit church <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GeYtalJ-qn4&amp;list=PLwe1DQGIxfLOa2s6dLwpXQprZcuvhwu1S&amp;index=79" target="_blank" rel="noopener">celebrates 100 years</a> in the same neighborhood where it was founded during the early years of the Great Migration.
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<a href="http://www.detroitmorehousealumni.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Morehouse College Glee Club Meets Motown</a>
<a href="http://ststephename.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">St. Stephen A.M.E. Church</a>
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3/11/18: Morehouse Meets Motown / St. Stephen AME Church Centennial

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On the next American Black Journal: An early childhood initiative, &#8220;<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uDWIzF3MwB8&amp;index=143&amp;list=PLwe1DQGIxfLOa2s6dLwpXQprZcuvhwu1S" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Hope Starts Here</a>,&#8221; led by The Kresge Foundation and W.K. Kellogg Foundation reaches an important milestone in its mission to make Detroit a city that puts young children and families first. We&#8217;ll talk about the massive engagement effort and the framework that&#8217;s now in place.  Plus, studies show that young Black males have greater success when they have African-American male teachers. We&#8217;ll talk with three committed <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tT6geur_brM&amp;index=142&amp;list=PLwe1DQGIxfLOa2s6dLwpXQprZcuvhwu1S" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Black male educators</a> about the need for more men to enter the field of teaching. Original air date: 11/26/17.
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<a href="http://detroitk12.org/schools/douglass/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Frederick Douglass Academy for Young Men</a>
<a href="http://dft231.mi.aft.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Detroit Federation of Teachers</a>
<a href="https://www.wkkf.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">W.K. Kellogg Foundation</a>
<a href="https://motheringjustice.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Mothering Justice</a>
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3/4/18: Hope Starts Here / Black Male Teachers

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On the next American Black Journal, we take a look at the importance of literacy in the Black community. An upcoming <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=px5WvV9sabQ&amp;index=90&amp;list=PLwe1DQGIxfLOa2s6dLwpXQprZcuvhwu1S" target="_blank" rel="noopener">book expo</a> is hoping to increase literacy in the city by celebrating reading and African American authors.  Plus, a special report on an African-American violinist who is taking the classical music world by storm. We&#8217;ll see his performance at this year&#8217;s Sphinx Competition.
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Don&#8217;t miss American Black Journal on Sunday at 9:30 a.m. and again on Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. on Detroit Public TV, WTVS-Channel 56.
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2/18/18: African-American Family Book Expo / Sphinx Competition

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On the next American Black Journal: An early childhood initiative, &#8220;Hope Starts Here,&#8221; led by The Kresge Foundation and W.K. Kellogg Foundation reaches an important milestone in its mission to make Detroit a city that puts young children and families first. We&#8217;ll talk about the massive engagement effort and the framework that&#8217;s now in place.  Plus, studies show that young Black males have greater success when they have African-American male teachers. We&#8217;ll talk with three committed Black male educators about the need for more men to enter the field of teaching.
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Related Links:
<a href="http://detroitk12.org/schools/douglass/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Frederick Douglass Academy for Young Men</a>
<a href="http://dft231.mi.aft.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Detroit Federation of Teachers</a>
<a href="https://www.wkkf.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">W.K. Kellogg Foundation</a>
<a href="https://motheringjustice.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Mothering Justice</a>
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Don&#8217;t miss American Black Journal on Sunday at 9:30 a.m. and again on Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. on Detroit Public TV, WTVS-Channel 56.
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11/26/17: Hope Starts Here / Black Male Teachers

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On the next American Black Journal: The Michigan Science Center celebrates it&#8217;s fifth birthday with an award-winning, international exhibition. We&#8217;ll talk with the CEO about how the museum is inspiring and empowering children. Plus, there&#8217;s a demand for skilled tradespeople, and the upcoming Apprenticeship Expo will introduce Detroiters to options in the construction and transportation industries.
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Related Links:
<a href="http://www.mi-sci.org/">Michigan Science Center</a>
<a href="http://randolphcareertech.com/">Randolph Career and Technical Center</a>
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Don&#8217;t miss American Black Journal on Sunday at 9:30 a.m. and again on Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. on Detroit Public TV, WTVS-Channel 56.
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11/12/2017: Michigan Science Center / Apprenticeship Expo Show

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Extended Audience Q&amp;A:  
Our audience had great questions for Superintendent Nikolai Vitti that we couldn&#8217;t fit into the broadcast. Check out the extended Q&amp;A below:
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Rev. Larry Simmons and Cherie Bandrowski showed the One Detroit team a whole host of notable sites in the Brightmoor neighborhood. Check out their extended tour below:
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Education Roadshow Extras | American Black Journal

9-27-17

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Extended Audience Q&amp;A:  
Our audience had great questions for Superintendent Nikolai Vitti that we couldn&#8217;t fit into the broadcast. Check out the extended Q&amp;A below:
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More of Brightmoor: 
Rev. Larry Simmons and Cherie Bandrowski showed the One Detroit team a whole host of notable sites in the Brightmoor neighborhood. Check out their extended tour below:
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American Black Journal | One Detroit Education Roadshow | Extras

9-24-17

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Don&#8217;t miss American Black Journal on Sunday at 9:30 a.m. and again on Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. on Detroit Public TV, WTVS-Channel 56.
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9/24/17: Do we really care about our kids’ education?

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On the next American Black Journal: The historical society for the country&#8217;s first Black owned and operated television station, WGPR, launches a series of screenings and talkbacks with filmmakers. The first documentary focuses on the lives lost during the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kjodM0Wg0uM&amp;index=194&amp;list=PLwe1DQGIxfLOa2s6dLwpXQprZcuvhwu1S&amp;t=5s" target="_blank" rel="noopener">1967 Detroit rebellion</a>. Plus, we&#8217;ll preview our upcoming <a href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/american-black-journal-one-detroit-education-roadshow-registration-37502550137" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Education Roadshow</a> with a look at the educational challenges in Detroit&#8217;s Brightmoor community.  And, we&#8217;ll talk about the in-depth report by our Detroit Journalism Cooperative partner <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kuf_Rc6KyM8&amp;index=191&amp;list=PLwe1DQGIxfLOa2s6dLwpXQprZcuvhwu1S&amp;t=17s" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Chalkbeat Detroit</a> on Detroit School Superintendent Dr. Nikolai Vitti&#8217;s first three months on the job.
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Related Links:
<a href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/wgpr-tv-historical-society-presents-behind-the-lens-tickets-37564174457?aff=es2" target="_blank" rel="noopener">WGPR-TV Historical Society&#8217;s &#8220;Behind the Lens&#8221;</a>
<a href="https://www.chalkbeat.org/posts/detroit/2017/09/11/possible-but-daunting-inside-nikolai-vittis-early-effort-to-transform-detroits-battered-public-schools/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">&#8216;Possible, but daunting&#8217;, Chalkbeat Detroit report on Dr. Vitti</a>
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Don&#8217;t miss American Black Journal on Sunday at 9:30 a.m. and again on Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. on Detroit Public TV, WTVS-Channel 56.
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9/17/17: “Summer ’67” / Mission City in Brightmoor / Dr. Nikolai Vitti – Chalkbeat Detroit Report

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On the next American Black Journal: The call has gone out for 2,500 volunteers to <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5MLNhFU6vDA&amp;index=211&amp;list=PLwe1DQGIxfLOa2s6dLwpXQprZcuvhwu1S&amp;t=0s" target="_blank" rel="noopener">mentor students</a> in the Cornerstone Schools when classes resume next month.  Plus, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2HGk5wSa4Ck&amp;index=210&amp;list=PLwe1DQGIxfLOa2s6dLwpXQprZcuvhwu1S&amp;t=20s" target="_blank" rel="noopener">independent filmmakers</a> show off their culturally diverse works at a Detroit-based film festival in downtown Detroit.  And, former Detroit Mayor and NBA legend <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qcZOngFoxj8&amp;index=213&amp;list=PLwe1DQGIxfLOa2s6dLwpXQprZcuvhwu1S&amp;t=0s" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dave Bing </a>talks about the American Dream.  Don&#8217;t miss American Black Journal on Sunday at 9:30 a.m. and again on Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. on Detroit Public TV, WTVS-Channel 56.
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Related Links:
<a href="http://www.cornerstoneschools.org/giving/partner-program/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Cornerstone Schools &#8211; Partner Morning Program</a>
<a href="http://trinityinternationalfilmfest.blogspot.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Trinity International Film Festival</a>
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8/20/17: Partner Morning Program / Trinity International Film Festival

6-25-17

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On the next American Black Journal: The new superintendent of the Detroit Public Schools Community District, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BI-N2dsSwUM&amp;index=256&amp;list=PLwe1DQGIxfLOa2s6dLwpXQprZcuvhwu1S&amp;t=0s" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dr. Nikolai Vitti</a>, talks with Stephen Henderson about his priorities for the district, teachers, academics and student enrollment. Plus, the long-awaited &#8220;<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CGAk6WRUZGk&amp;index=254&amp;list=PLwe1DQGIxfLOa2s6dLwpXQprZcuvhwu1S&amp;t=0s" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Detroit 1967: Perspectives</a>&#8221; exhibition opens at the Detroit Historical Museum. Stephen talks with the project&#8217;s director, Marlowe Stoudamire, and Tracy Irwin, curator of the Detroit 67 exhibit, about what museum visitors will experience at the exhibit.
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Related Links:
<a href="http://detroitk12.org/admin/dpscd/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Detroit Public Schools Community District</a>
<a href="http://www.detroit1967.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Detroit 67: Perspectives</a>
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Don&#8217;t miss American Black Journal on Sunday at 9:30 a.m. and again on Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. on Detroit Public TV, WTVS-Channel 56.
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6/25/17: Superintendent Dr. Nikolai Vitti on DPSCD / Detroit 67: Perspectives

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American Black Journal took to the road to produce a special one-hour edition focused on <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kcc1qVTOz0A" target="_blank" rel="noopener">mentorship and education</a>.
Hosted by Stephen Henderson, the show recorded at the Downtown Boxing Gym in January 2017 and featured several community leaders including Boxing Gym Founder and Program Director, Khali Sweeney.
Sweeney founded the Downtown Boxing Gym in 2007 with the goal of opening a safe haven for kids who grow up in Detroit’s East Side. His own history as a Detroit native shapes the curriculum he has 
developed for the Youth Program that emphasizes books before boxing and community service. He was honored with an American Graduate Champion award in 2015.
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National Minority Health Month spotlights disparities faced by people of color

April is National Minority Health Month, <a href="https://www.nimhd.nih.gov/programs/edu-training/nmhm/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">an annual observance</a> aimed at shedding light on the persistent health disparities faced by racial and ethnic minority communities. <a href="https://www.hhs.gov/national-minority-health-month/index.html#:~:text=April%20is%20National%20Minority%20Health,action%20to%20end%20these%20inequities." target="_blank" rel="noopener">This year’s theme</a>, “Be the Source for Better Health: Improving Health Outcomes Through Our Cultures, Communities, and Connections,” emphasizes understanding how social determinants of health impact minority health outcomes.<span data-ccp-props="{&quot;134233117&quot;:false,&quot;134233118&quot;:false,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:0,&quot;335551620&quot;:0,&quot;335557856&quot;:16777215,&quot;335559685&quot;:-20,&quot;335559737&quot;:-20,&quot;335559738&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:276}"> 
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Originating from National Negro Health Week established in 1915 by Booker T. Washington, National Minority Health Month gained formal recognition from Congress in 2002. It serves as a platform to educate and raise awareness about health issues affecting minority populations, urging action to promote healthfulness and reduce disparities.<span data-ccp-props="{&quot;134233117&quot;:false,&quot;134233118&quot;:false,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:0,&quot;335551620&quot;:0,&quot;335557856&quot;:16777215,&quot;335559685&quot;:-20,&quot;335559737&quot;:-20,&quot;335559738&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:276}"> 
For National Minority Health Month, Dr. Hayley Thompson, director of Wayne State University’s Center for Health Equity and Community Knowledge in Urban Populations (<a href="https://check-up.wayne.edu/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">CHECK-UP</a>), talks with “American Black Journal” host <a href="https://twitter.com/SHDetroit" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Stephen Henderson</a> about the efforts to tackle health inequities in Detroit and Michigan.<span data-ccp-props="{&quot;134233117&quot;:false,&quot;134233118&quot;:false,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:0,&quot;335551620&quot;:0,&quot;335557856&quot;:16777215,&quot;335559685&quot;:-20,&quot;335559737&quot;:-20,&quot;335559738&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:276}"> 
They talk about CHECK-UP’s collaboration with researchers, community partners, and corporations and the importance of building trust between minority communities and medical institutions. Plus, Thompson also discusses the leading causes of death for African Americans and the importance of assessing social needs during medical encounters.
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Black women entrepreneurs face uphill battle for business growth

Venturing into the world of entrepreneurship comes with challenges.  However, for Black women entrepreneurs, the hurdles can be much higher and different. A study from the <a href="https://www.nawbo.org/">National Association of Women Business Owners</a> shows 42% of U.S. businesses are owned by women, yet those businesses grow at only half the rate as businesses owned by men. To learn more about the unique challenges African American women entrepreneurs face, &#8220;American Black Journal&#8221; host <a href="https://twitter.com/SHDetroit">Stephen Henderson</a> spoke with two Black women entrepreneurs from Detroit. 
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Linda Hendricks, co-founder of the <a href="https://www.detroitdancecenter.com/">Detroit Dance Center</a>, and Chinonye Akunne, the owner of <a href="https://ileraapothecary.com/">ILERA Apothecary</a>, join Henderson to discuss what led them to become entrepreneurs and share their advice for budding business owners. Plus, they talk about the financial and marketing grants they received through <a href="https://www.comcastrise.com/">Comcast RISE</a>, a program created during the pandemic to assist small businesses owned by women and people of color. 
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Stephen Henderson, Host, American Black Journal: Linda and Chinonye, welcome to &#8220;American Black Journal.&#8221;
Linda Hendricks, Co-Founder, Detroit Dance Center: Yes. Thank you for having us.
Stephen Henderson: So, I always think that one of the most daring things you can ever do in life is to go out on your own and start a business, decide that you&#8217;re going to fair for yourself out in the market economy. Of course, that looks really different for people of color than it does for the majority population, and it looks really different for women than it does for men. So, you both face both of those challenges. I want to start with both of you just kind of telling your story, how you came to decide that this was for you and what you ended up creating. Linda, I&#8217;ll start with you.
Linda Hendricks: Okay, sure. So, I&#8217;m one of the co-owners of Detroit Dance Center. We are located in midtown Detroit. And myself and my two other partners, Dominique and Jasmine, we all used to teach together. We taught dance together at a dance studio in Detroit. We taught together, I was a teacher, they were students, and then we all became teachers, and then the pandemic happened. And so, we were kind of on a hiatus.
Everybody was sitting at home in Zoom classes and everything like that. It started off as just a little playful banter if I had a studio, I would do this, if I had a studio, I would do that. The discussion became a little serious. Moving forward, next thing you know, about a year later, we opened up our studio in September of 2021, and it was kind of we were trying to figure it out during the pandemic, but that&#8217;s how we all got started.
Stephen Henderson: Yeah, and what were some of the risks, I guess, that you felt or some of the challenges that you faced in making that decision?
Linda Hendricks: Oh, definitely, yeah. The pandemic, that&#8217;s really what it was.
Stephen Henderson: We&#8217;ll start there, right?
Linda Hendricks: Yeah, it was really that. We were thinking would parents want their kids to be around other kids so close? And, if we had classes, how many kids can we put in a classroom and work on social distancing? So, it was really unknown how the public would react. Would we have students, starting in 2021, that would want to be in-person and not have to do virtual dance classes?
Stephen Henderson: Yeah. Chinonye, tell us how you came to decide to be an entrepreneur.
Chinonye Akunne, Founder, Ilera Apothecary: Yeah. So, I always tell people entrepreneurship found me. And I say that because about eight years ago my brother came to me needing a natural deodorant. He was changing his lifestyle, changing his diet, and was going vegan. So, he wanted something that was vegan and that actually worked. At the time, I studied chemistry in college, I also got my master&#8217;s in public health. And so, I was&#8211;always been tinkering with formulas and things like that.
So, I was able to make it for him. And on this journey of making this natural deodorant, I realized that some of the chemicals in my workplace, I was working at a global automotive company at the time, I was making sure we were by weighting the chemicals that were coming into our plants, and some of I saw a lot of crossing. And so, I said, &#8220;If I&#8217;m banning this from coming into a plant because it&#8217;s unsafe for people to work in a large manufacturing environment, then why are we putting it on our skin?&#8221; Even though it&#8217;s at smaller doses, but we&#8217;re still doing that every single day and that&#8217;s just compounding onto us.
And so, I was like— I just started doing my research. I started talking to friends and family, and when I learned about how many people were suffering with different skin ailments from eczema, to psoriasis, dry skin, being allergic, I was very shocked because I had never experienced any of that. And so, I realized that my brother came to me for a reason and I was going to create the solution. So, that&#8217;s when I created Ilera Apothecary, and the goal of Ilera is to make people feel confident in their skin. Ilera literally translates to &#8216;health&#8217; in Yoruba language in Nigeria. I&#8217;m a first-generation American, and so, really tying my roots, tying my education, tying who I am into a product that helps people. And so, essentially that&#8217;s how Ilera Apothecary came to be. And that&#8217;s what we&#8217;re about, growing confidence through skin care.
Stephen Henderson: Yeah. So, I do want to talk a little about the program that has helped you guys with some financial assistance and other things. But before we get there, I want to talk about what some of the day-to-day reminders, I guess, that you get about the challenges that exist because of who you are. The things that might be easier for other people who&#8217;re starting their own businesses, than they are for you. Chinonye, I&#8217;ll start with you this time.
Chinonye Akunne: You know, it&#8217;s interesting because in business, you don&#8217;t know what you don&#8217;t know until you come across that hurdle, and then you have to start figuring it out. And I don&#8217;t have just a dedicated group of people that I can go and say this is what I&#8217;m dealing with, how can you help me? Or where do I go? It&#8217;s like, I talked to one person, they introduced me to another person. And so, the time to resolve issues, the more that I&#8217;m learning about business and getting familiar with that, it decreases. But you have to be intentionally in those spaces to even get that access. And I know, when I was applying for the Comcast grant for marketing, it was like, I don&#8217;t need the money right now. But what I need is for people to know about my business because essentially the money will come back from there. And so, really just understanding what you need in business and how you can make it work for you, even if it is something as a tangible dollar.
Stephen Henderson: Yeah. I mean, this idea that you need the support of other people, other people who own businesses, other people who know what it&#8217;s like to start a business. Linda, talk about how that challenge looks, if you&#8217;re an African American woman and trying to make a business work.
Linda Hendricks: Yeah, absolutely. Well, one good thing about me and my business partners is that we are career professionals first and dancers second. We have that passion for dance. We love to dance, but we do other things. Myself, I am an internal auditor, I&#8217;ve been so for over 20 years. My partner Jasmine is a chemistry teacher, so she works on all the curriculum development. And then, Dominique is a project manager. So, with those things, we&#8217;re able to work the business, put out processes and procedures, and operations, and know about customer service. However, we struggled a lot with that marketing. So, being able to use that Comcast grant to join other groups that are similar with doing dance studios, and how do you get students in, and bring in the babies that you can help them grow up within your studio and everything like that.
So, that has been a struggle. And then on a personal level, because we are minority women, we&#8217;re also mothers. So, our husbands have had to take on the role of Mr. Mom if you want to say, because we teach classes in the evening. So, my husband is running around, picking up the kids from school, dropping them off, and he comes home late at night saying, &#8220;Oh, I&#8217;m pooped.&#8221; I&#8217;m like, &#8220;Oh, really? Interesting.&#8221; So, that&#8217;s a challenge of just being able to definitely have that support system, being able to operate in the evenings when most family, or even women are at home, be it taking care of family or running errands or just being the family Uber.
Stephen Henderson: Yeah. So, I want both of you to talk just a little about the grant, the Comcast Rise grant. But also, I want to have you give some advice to people out there who might be thinking about starting their own business and maybe apprehensive about the idea, maybe don&#8217;t think that it will work or that they&#8217;ll have the support. Talk about both of those things and how they kind of work together. Linda, I&#8217;ll start with you this time.
Linda Hendricks: OK. Yeah, definitely. With the Comcast grant, definitely the application process, I think, prepares the person and entrepreneur to be able to make sure that they have all their ducks in a row before their hitting market. So, it asks a lot of questions about what is your budget? How do you foresee yourself after 12 months? What are some of your obstacles? What are some of your risks? What are the markets looking like?
So, just those questions alone, if you don&#8217;t have those answers to those questions you might not be in that position quite yet to hit market. But it&#8217;s not a, it&#8217;s done for and you can&#8217;t do anything about it. It&#8217;s really like, this is what it&#8217;s going to take as an entrepreneur. You&#8217;re always going to plan, you&#8217;ll always have to forecast, you&#8217;re always going to have to figure out how can you shift or change with the market or the environment of what&#8217;s going on. So, my tips are, really thoroughly look at those questions on the application. You know, answer them to the best of your ability and be, what am I trying to say, realistic with those answers. And if you can do those things, I think you would have a, hopefully, a good shot at that.
Stephen Henderson: Chinonye, what would your advice be?
Chinonye Akunne: Yeah, absolutely understand your &#8216;why&#8217;. Why are you going into business? Often I found that people have said they&#8217;re going into business because they don&#8217;t want to work for another person. What they don&#8217;t realize is that when you go into business, you get a lot more managers. You&#8217;re answering to your customers, you&#8217;re answering to your employees, your vendors, everyone. And so, really understand what value are you bringing? Why you? And what difference are you trying to make with your business?
Also, just like Linda said, understand your business, know your numbers, know, like I said, know the value that you bring, and really make sure that you&#8217;re organized and you have your ducks in a row, but also don&#8217;t think that you have to know everything. Don&#8217;t wait for perfection to get to where you want to be. People fail so many times, but as long as you get up after every single one of those failures, you&#8217;ve learned something new where you can then go and take it to the next thing that you do. But don&#8217;t think that you need to have all the answers and make sure that the answers that you do have, you have them organized. Ask a lot of questions and understand your &#8216;why&#8217;.
Stephen Henderson: That advice about understanding failure, there is no such thing as a business owner who&#8217;s never failed, right. But you learn from those failures, you don&#8217;t just give up. Wonderful advice from both of you. Linda and Chinonye, thank you very much for being here.
Linda Hendricks: Thank you. Thanks for having us.
Chinonye Akunne: Yes, thanks for having us.
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American Black Journal host Stephen Henderson examines the results of an <a href="https://www.michigan.gov/documents/msp/Executive_Summary_Wolfe_et_al_MSP_external_benchmark_FINAL_REPORT_2021_745157_7.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">independent study</a> from the Michigan State University School of Criminal Justice showing African Americans were stopped by Michigan State Police troopers at disproportionately high rates in 2020. The study also showed Black and Hispanic drivers were more likely to be searched and arrested after a traffic stop.
Stephen sits down with <a href="https://www.michigan.gov/msp/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Michigan State Police</a> Director Col. Joe Gasper and <a href="https://www.michigan.gov/mdcr" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Michigan Department of Civil Rights</a> Executive Director John E. Johnson, Jr. to investigate the findings and the steps being taken to address these racial disparities.
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Stephen Henderson: Let&#8217;s start with both of your reactions to this report and what it says about policing in our state, and then we&#8217;ll talk about kind of where we&#8217;ll go from here. But these are very stark conclusions drawn by this report, and I think they demand a lot of our attention. Colonel Gaspar, it&#8217;s your department that is the subject of this report. Tell me what your reaction was to all of this.
Col. Joe Gasper, Director, Michigan State Police: Yeah, I think that, you know, we&#8217;re in a time and in the country right now, really, where, you know, all police departments need to be looking internally and externally to making sure that, that we&#8217;re evolving and that we&#8217;re demonstrating best practices. And sometimes when you engage in some self-reflection, you have a reminder that, you know, sometimes it&#8217;s not what you want it to be.
Col. Joe Gasper: And this would be one of those times where we saw some disparity that was concerning to us. And so we wanted to make sure that we understood it. So we hired Michigan State University and partnered with them, and they did the analysis on our on our traffic stop data. And it was not where we want it to be.
Col. Joe Gasper: So now we&#8217;re in a time period here where we need to better understand it. You know, the goal of the report was to identify if there was disparity. Clearly, there is disparity. And now we&#8217;ve got an opportunity to understand why that&#8217;s occurring.
Stephen Henderson: Colonel, I wonder if you were surprised by what you saw, I mean, it&#8217;s always, I think, a little jarring to see things drawn out in statistics, right and data. But I guess what I&#8217;m getting at is what was your sense of how this issue was playing out in the department before you saw the numbers?
Col. Joe Gasper: Yeah. You know, I think that when you, you know, when I looked at something like this and we see the in the beginning, it kind of the aggregate data where it was. And, you know, obviously, that&#8217;s something that we wanted to understand a little bit more.
Col. Joe Gasper: And I think when the numbers came out, I&#8217;m confident that our troopers are out there doing what they&#8217;ve been trained to do and in and you know, where the disparity is now. And clearly, it&#8217;s concerning to everyone involved. And now the goal needs to be to do what we can to reduce that disparity.
Stephen Henderson: So, John, this is an issue that you and I have discussed before. It&#8217;s an issue that I know you&#8217;ve worked on for a really long time trying to draw attention to this disparity. Give me your reaction to the report.
John E. Johnson, Jr. Executive Director, Michigan Department of Civil Rights: Thank you, Stephen again for having us on this. And our reaction was there was not one of surprise, as you can imagine. As you&#8217;ve indicated, we&#8217;ve worked on these issues for decades, beginning with right or wrong with the Detroit NAACP and surrounding suburbs of Detroit, where we identified racial profiling going on in a number of areas and it continues today.
John E. Johnson Jr.: So this is not a surprise. I do, however, must applaud Colonel Gasper for ordering, commissioning this report, releasing the data of it and owning up to what it says and then making some recommendations as to what he sees needs to be done in order to improve the conditions going forward. So we applaud him for that and our department stands ready to work with him in any way that we can in order to actualize the recommendations that he&#8217;s put forth already.
Stephen Henderson: Yeah. So, John, as you point out, I mean, you&#8217;ve done a lot of work here in the city of Detroit on civil rights issues for a really long time as well. I&#8217;m really curious what you think the distinction might be between this data about state police and what we might see if we did the same kind of report with DPD.
Stephen Henderson: You know, there are a lot of citizens who complain about their interactions with Detroit police. Do you think this is a problem that would look the same here as it does at the state police?
John E. Johnson Jr.: Well, I think that issue was raised recently by some folks in regards to DPD. And I think what allegations made by the public defender that arrests have escalated against people of color during the pandemic based on possession of weapons. I don&#8217;t think any law enforcement agency is excluded from this.
John E. Johnson Jr.: And one of the things I hope comes of this and what Colonel Gaspar has done is that other agencies would take stock of themselves and do their own internal audit to be able to bring the truth to light. That&#8217;s and he&#8217;s shown himself to be a leader in this category, and I hope other folks will follow suit.
John E. Johnson Jr.: You know, there&#8217;s other problems in other areas. A result shows have come out about Lansing and the 85% rate of Black juveniles arrested over there. So it&#8217;s as we know, it&#8217;s something that unfortunately that exists throughout our law enforcement departments and as a culture that needs to be addressed as we know it. I&#8217;m glad Col. Gasper is taking the steps to do that.
John E. Johnson Jr.: Some of the recommendations that he&#8217;s put forward to some of the ones that have been recommended in the MSU report of which we&#8217;re speaking, I think would bring a lot of accountability. And that&#8217;s what we seek. It&#8217;s good to have policies, but it&#8217;s more important to have accountability when people don&#8217;t violate those policies and procedures, and that must be in place also.
Stephen Henderson: Colonel Gasper, two of the things that jumped out at me from the report in terms of recommendations, obviously, you know, training of officers in some sort of sensitivity, I guess you might call it, to differences cultural differences, but then also, you know, the racial makeup of the department itself.
Stephen Henderson: Now, neither of those is a snap your finger kind of solution. These are things that departments struggle with all the time. So tell me what your approach is going to be to those things.
Col. Joe Gasper: So the training that&#8217;s probably an easier thing to accomplish. We&#8217;ve already started to make some significant modifications in the area of training in the last couple of recruit schools that we&#8217;ve done. We have a couple hour block every week in the evening where we have the recruits in the current environment, a virtual environment, and they sign on to a cultural competency or cultural awareness speaker.
Col. Joe Gasper: And so we&#8217;ve had a number of speakers from various communities. One obviously is from the African-American community and it&#8217;s been very insightful because especially from a historical perspective, you know, that obviously is an important part of, you know, some of the challenge that we have here and making sure that our members are aware of that history is very important.
Col. Joe Gasper: We are actually implementing a much more comprehensive history of policing in our recruit school we&#8217;re hoping to start that as soon as our next school here in the next several weeks, and then offering that in an in-service capacity too. And then just broadly paying attention to how do we bring in more specific training when it comes to cognitive or implicit bias?
Col. Joe Gasper: The cultural awareness, there&#8217;s a lot of troopers that that may not grow up in a very culturally diverse area of the state or the country and would not have any way of really knowing some of that background. So that&#8217;s an important part. So we feel really confident that we&#8217;re going to be able to be successful with that. And a huge component of that too is partnering with the community.
Col. Joe Gasper: And we recently solicited input and interest from the community to come be part of our several-day scenario-based training, and we wanted the community to actually be role players for that. So that was successful. We can plan to continue that, but then also continuing to partner with some of our community groups, some of our universities and colleges to work on that training.
Col. Joe Gasper: The recruiting, you know, we&#8217;re not where we want to be or not where we need to be. You know, we need to continue to try, you know, a big component of recruiting and getting people into the department is making sure, especially from a diversity perspective, that that young people or people that are interested in coming into the Michigan State Police, that they can see themselves not only as a trooper but in various ranks throughout the department, so that there is, you know, the idea that they might be able to promote or even potentially lead the agency at some point.
Col. Joe Gasper: We&#8217;ve had African-American directors in the past, we&#8217;ve had female director in the past. And so so that&#8217;s important. And then again, right now, it&#8217;s just really working with the community to see what we can do to partner together to create that interest.
Stephen Henderson: So, so, John, I want to ask you about the kind of broader context of discussion about police reform and you know, there are a lot of people talking about much more drastic changes to the way that we fund policing the way that we structure policing. Are there things from that narrative that you would throw onto the pile here as well and say that we ought to be thinking about in terms of the state police?
John E. Johnson Jr.: Well, yes, there&#8217;s a package of bills have been introduced in the Legislature that would allow us to have more police accountability. So certainly we embrace those. In this instance, again, I just would have to refer back to the study that was done by MSU and where it shows even post-stop, the level of searches that are involved with people of color are significantly higher than those of other races.
John E. Johnson Jr.: So I refer back to some of the recommendations made in the report, specifically seven through nine with which deal with post-stop outcome results and recommending that the Michigan State Police track when searches are conducted. The outcomes of those searches, the disposition of those searches and also recommendation number 12 with which wants to mesh the trooper&#8217;s characteristics with the traffic stop database.
John E. Johnson Jr.: So we begin to get a profile of the troopers who are beginning who are making these stops in which they are significantly higher percentage of people of color being arrested than others per the census and per other things so. So those are sort of the, I think, the progressive sort of recommendations that could be embraced that again would bring more accountability, which is what we seek.
John E. Johnson Jr.: Again, we laud Colonel Gasper for, we laud his leadership and just the fact that he is reform-minded. So we&#8217;re behind him all the way with that and like him to embrace on these other things, which will take the reforms to the level where there&#8217;s, again, some accountability.
Stephen Henderson: Hey, Colonel Gasper and John Johnson, it was great to have both of you here to talk about this important work. And Colonel Gasper, of course, we wish you the best in implementing these recommendations.
Col. Joe Gasper: Yeah, I appreciate that.
Stephen Henderson: Okay, thank you.
John E. Johnson Jr.: Thank you.
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Study Shows Black Drivers Were Stopped by Michigan State Police at Disproportionately High Rates 

Mental Health Awareness Month

Host Stephen Henderson talks with <a href="https://www.cnshealthcare.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">CNS Healthcare</a> President and CEO Michael Garrett about how people can take care of their mental health this holiday season. The two discuss the impacts the COVID-19 pandemic, incidents of systemic racism and increased gun violence have had on people’s mental health in communities of color, as well as the importance of finding resources to combat trauma, stress and anxiety. They explore the stigma associated with mental health in communities of color, and how to reduce it.
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Making Mental Health Better for Communities of Color

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A number of civil rights groups, including the NAACP and ACLU, have filed a federal lawsuit against Georgia over its controversial new voting law. The legislation includes massive changes to absentee and early voting, and it places restrictions on the locations of ballot drop boxes. Similar voter suppression bills have been introduced by republicans in the Michigan legislature and several other states. Stephen spoke with <a href="https://www.detroitnaacp.org/">Detroit NAACP</a> president, Rev. Wendell Anthony, who recently received the national NAACP activist of the year award.
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Wendell Anthony on voter suppression bills and the Black vote

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“What we know as Black people, whether we get paid or not, we know we have to face these inequities.”—Yusef Shakur
Thanks to a grant from the Kresge Foundation, <a href="https://www.miroundtable.org/">The Michigan Roundtable for Diversity and Inclusion</a> is expanding its anti-racism work in the city of Detroit. Stephen talked about the roundtable’s plans with its new deputy director of strategy and innovation, Yusef Shakur.
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Stephen Henderson  About this new position of yours with Michigan Roundtable for Diversity and Inclusion, how did this come about?
Yusef Shakur, Deputy Director, Strategy &amp; Innovation, Michigan Roundtable For Diversity &amp; Inclusion  I&#8217;ve been working for the organization 4 and a half years. Prior to that, I had community connections in terms of them supporting some of our community initiatives. I think in terms of being able to push the organization to go deeper in terms of racial and social justice and being able to earn my keep as continue to develop as a leader within the city. And personally, through pursuits of continuing to get better to transformation as well as pursuing higher education. And opportunity presented itself and Steven, the board saw the potential and we seized the moment.
Stephen Henderson  Go deeper, that&#8217;s a that&#8217;s a great phrase to describe what I imagine you&#8217;re trying to do here with this with this position. People who know you around the city know you&#8217;re a guy who&#8217;s about action and not just talking. And I suspect that that&#8217;s part of what you&#8217;re up to.
Yusef Shakur, Deputy Director, Strategy &amp; Innovation, Michigan Roundtable For Diversity &amp; Inclusion  Absolutely, a thing in particular, look, before the era that we&#8217;re currently in is challenging ourselves to take a position of racial or social justice.  Again, in particular black folks we&#8217;ve inherited a lot of inequities, and as a result we fought against it. A lot of other people, you know, in the current time, like this work is led by nonprofit, but what we know as black people, whether we get paid or not, we have to face these inequities. We have to figure out how to do it, so we&#8217;re trying to bring that type of mentality w whether you get paid for this or not, we have to change this. And this is this is bigger than what we can get paid for is just fortunate that someone was going to get paid for it. So being able to find that common thread in there. But also, Detroit is a predominately black city. The suburbs are predominantly white, and that heightens a lot of the contradictions that goes on. So being able to put ourselves in the ring to challenge those contradiction.
Stephen Henderson  Talk about some of the things in the short term you would want to focus on in this new role.
Yusef Shakur, Deputy Director, Strategy &amp; Innovation, Michigan Roundtable For Diversity &amp; Inclusion  So, currently what we&#8217;re doing is we&#8217;re pushing ourselves to take whatever, whatever role that we engage. We&#8217;re taking a position, a racial social justice position that is non-negotiable and also using critical race theory as a guide to how to how do we do the work. Over stating that diversity doesn&#8217;t mean that you&#8217;re anti-racist. That we&#8217;re showing up. being anti-racist, that we&#8217;re showing up dealing with the hard issues of poverty and so forth. Over stating that we&#8217;re, that we represent the most marginalized and the most marginalized, particularly is a reason are black people. But also create an opportunity to develop and build them up in terms of shifting what we perceive as power, as the stakeholders, seeing the people, those who are oppressed as the stakeholders, that their lives matter, that the equity of being here three or four generations of Detroiters matters. And so, the position that the community has that we built and also in the process of doing another one, so digging deeper within the hearts of the neighborhood and creating an opportunity to uplift those voices.
Stephen Henderson  This is, of course, a moment where I feel like there&#8217;s more people paying attention to these issues than before now and now. I&#8217;m talking about non-black people. And of course, you have these constant reminders of how all of this is now that people can capture with their cell phones the kind of experiences that black people have all the time. How do you lean into that moment in this new world? What opportunity does that, does that give you?
Yusef Shakur, Deputy Director, Strategy &amp; Innovation, Michigan Roundtable For Diversity &amp; Inclusion  So what, what we did was I had the great honor of graduating from University of Michigan School of Social Work in 2019, and there they they&#8217;ve incorporated was called (PODS) privilege, oppression, diversity and social justice. And we hear it clicks, it clicks in terms of because what we know is people say they want to have tough conversations, but in reality, they want to have soft, soft conversations. And so, to get to the challenge, we have to create discomfort. And a lot of times discomfort is for non-black people. And in helping to understand that, we have to examine the power of privilege and how it impacts oppression and to get to get an authentic diversity, we have to land on racial social justice. So, over studying that journey, over studying those roles. You know, there&#8217;s different expressways, but they interconnect. So even like you and I, you know we&#8217;re two black men, but we probably come from two different experiences. So, getting into the roots of what those different experiences to allow us to really value who we are. Because in reality when we step out, no one&#8217;s going to look at our differences. They just want to see two black men, but also, they accept us differently. And so, this is within the work, ignorance is something that we all uphold. But ignorance has become a way of life and so being able to uproot that ignorance as well as uprooting racism is the objective.
Stephen Henderson  Yeah, I wonder what you think of the opportunity to not just take this message to young people, but to adults. I feel like it&#8217;s often more difficult to get these messages across to people who&#8217;ve been stuck in their ways for a really long time and maybe don&#8217;t think there&#8217;s anything wrong.
Yusef Shakur, Deputy Director, Strategy &amp; Innovation, Michigan Roundtable For Diversity &amp; Inclusion  But they will impact people across racial, gender and social economics, is authentic. You know, just being very real. And also or substituting the word real for being vulnerable. Cause we think you&#8217;re being real; you&#8217;re being vulnerable and it&#8217;s not. So, the ability to be vulnerable is more education than anything. And I&#8217;ll just share two brief stories with you. I remember growing up in Manistique, Michigan, you know it snow in a day, it&#8217;s completely white up there, right. And I&#8217;m talking about the experience of growing up with abuse, when my mother was being abused by her boyfriend. And it was a little white kid in the back of the room. Had to be no more than about 13, 14, everybody disperses she&#8217;s in the back row crying. So, I&#8217;m like what was going on what’s wrong. He was like, man, when I grew up, my mother was experiencing the same thing. So, what that told me again what we&#8217;re taught, abuse only happens in black families, drug addicts only happen in black families. Or when I talk about my father being in prison, me meeting my father, there was a young man who was 17, 18 that he wanted to come back to my hotel, he wanted to talk to me. Like man, my father never told me, my mother never told who my father was, but I think he was mad at her. So again, these social issues that we face, they face to. But until we&#8217;re able to be vulnerable with ourselves and realize like this is a black and white issue, but it&#8217;s bigger than a black or white issue. And who created the opportunity for us not to see the human connection? Because the ills that we&#8217;re facing, not only are they threats to you and I as black people, but there are threats to humanity. And if we&#8217;re truly calling ourselves, human beings, then we need to transform ourselves to create a better space for those who are the most impacted and where we don&#8217;t also find ourselves on that road. And so, I think being authentic allows us to get to that position.
Stephen Henderson  Yeah, so where do you start? It&#8217;s a new role, but as you point out, you&#8217;ve been there for some time. What&#8217;s first on your agenda
Yusef Shakur, Deputy Director, Strategy &amp; Innovation, Michigan Roundtable For Diversity &amp; Inclusion  So first of agenda again, was going inside the organization and being able to revamp how we&#8217;re going to approach things, establishing the (PODS), looking at privilege, looking at oppression. I&#8217;m also, again openly saying that we as an organization, we&#8217;re anti-poverty, we&#8217;re anti-racist. You know, again we know a lot of white folks talk that, but, you know, when it&#8217;s time to show up, you know, because of their discomfort, they show up differently. And so being able to, like if we&#8217;re going to model change, we need to be the change and not just a slogan. So being able to internally hold ourselves accountable, also placing ourselves on the side of those who are the most oppressed and allowing them to lead us by engaging them in areas that helped transform them.
Stephen Henderson  You know that internal focus is something that too many organizations aren&#8217;t really willing to do. What is it about the Michigan roundtable that you think leads them to say, hey, look, we understand we&#8217;ve got to look at ourselves.
Yusef Shakur, Deputy Director, Strategy &amp; Innovation, Michigan Roundtable For Diversity &amp; Inclusion  So I&#8217;m blessed to be able to work with co-workers that already have been doing that work. Stacey Stevens, prior to me getting there, actually, the reason I am here is because of her ability as a white woman and looking at the privilege that she holds in that space to say, hey, we need another black person, we need another black woman or another black man, we need to break down these silos. Even though we&#8217;re doing the right stuff, we&#8217;re doing it wrong, because internally it&#8217;s not reflective of what our theories are. And so being able to have that and also know Steve who&#8217;s my boss, putting to continue to challenge him and put him in discomfort conversations in this kind of work and him not taking that personal. I would say like, this is bigger than anything that he can get paid for. And so, trust, as you know, doing this work we got to trust each other. And trusting each other is building real sustainable relationships in the barracks, in the barracks where we&#8217;re showing our ugly selves, because again, this work has existed before I was born. And the goal is for it not to exist after I&#8217;m passed, but we have to get to a point were having the confidence and faith, So the confidence and faith that they have in me I have in them. And also, just be honest with you, like if you told me growing up like this is where I would be, and I would be like, man you crazy. Like this is because this wasn&#8217;t the reality, but you know it shows you the power of God. It shows you the power of transformation, education and commitment to continue to do better. I think most, I mean, some people don&#8217;t agree with me, but I think most people do agree with is that I&#8217;m consistent, that I&#8217;m passionate and that I&#8217;m very sincere and authentic.
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Facing Inequities

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Staying safe while driving has long been a concern for African Americans. Although the automobile provided mobility and independence during the 20th century, African Americans were further exposed to systemic racism while driving throughout the country.
Here&#8217;s a preview of the PBS documentary titled “<a href="https://video.dptv.org/show/driving-while-black/">Driving While Black: Race, Space and Mobility in America</a>,” which is now available for <a href="https://video.dptv.org/video/driving-while-black-race-space-and-mobility-in-america-achvfr/">streaming at PBS.org</a> (for Passport Members).
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Driving While Black

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Governor Gretchen Whitmer&#8217;s executive order declaring racism a public health crisis is bringing attention to the systems and policies that result in health disparities impacting people of color.
Dr. Kimberlydawn Wisdom of <a href="https://www.henryford.com/">Henry Ford Health System</a> talks about the governor&#8217;s declaration and what it means for the community.
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Racism as a Public Health Crisis

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<h2>On the next American Black Journal,</h2>
The <a href="https://www.detroitk12.org/">Detroit Public Schools Community District</a> is making plans to reopen schools in the fall. Stephen Henderson talks with Superintendent Dr. Nikolai Vitti about the changes being put in place to keep students, teachers and staff healthy and safe in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic. Plus, Dr. Vitti offers his personal perspective on the issues that have led to the global protests against systemic racism.  And, master storyteller <a href="https://www.satorishakoor.com/">Satori Shakoor</a>, founder of <a href="https://www.twistedtellers.org/">The Secret Society of Twisted Storytellers</a>, talks about the life-changing stories and messages coming out of the pandemic and George Floyd protests. Also, we&#8217;ll have a powerful performance of the Negro National Anthem, &#8220;Lift Every Voice and Sing,&#8221; by the <a href="http://www.sphinxmusic.org/">Sphinx Organization&#8217;s</a> Exigence Vocal Ensemble.
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<h2>Watch for upcoming videos:</h2>
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<h3><a href="http://www.pbs.org/show/american-black-journal/">View more from American Black Journal &gt;</a></h3>
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6/28/20: American Black Journal – Dr. Nikolai Vitti / Satori Shakoor / Sphinx Org

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Stephen Henderson talks with Karen Dumas (Communications Strategist) Brandon Brice (“Straight Talk” host, 910 AM Superstation), Kerry Leon Jackson (The Urban Conservative) and Greg Bowens (PR &amp; Political Strategist) for an in-depth discussion of the local, national and global protests against police brutality and systemic racism.
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