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G.C. Cameron of the Spinners greets Norma Fambrough outside the Motown Museum, Friday, May 19, 2023, in Detroit. The museum welcomed the iconic soul group where group members donated uniforms and other memorabilia from their Motown days. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio)

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Famed R&B group The Spinners donate performance outfits to Motown Museum in Detroit
By COREY WILLIAMS - Associated Press
Fri,05/19/23-4:38PM , 228 Reads
DETROIT (AP) — Henry Fambrough had a musical homecoming of sorts Friday at “Hitsville U.S.A.”
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Kevin Houston sits on the front steps of his home, May 9, 2023, in Highland Park, Mich., a small enclave of Detroit that is considering chapter 9 bankruptcy due to a $20 million debt to a regional water authority. Houston grew up in Highland Park and acknowledges that the city has too many vacant houses and overgrown lots. He says Highland Park is "not a bad place to live" but "it's not the best." (AP Photo/Corey Williams)

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Detroit enclave built on auto industry struggles under $20M water debt
By COREY WILLIAMS - Associated Press
Fri,05/19/23-12:35AM , 515 Reads
HIGHLAND PARK, Mich. (AP) — Kevin Houston scanned the Michigan street where his fixer-upper and older homes bridge gaps between the vacant, overgrown lots and abandoned, ramshackle houses, boarded-up businesses and potholed streets of Highland Park.

“It’s not a bad place to live,” Houston said. “It’s not the best.”
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In an undated photo provided by Jawana Jackson, the Jackson House in Selma, Ala, which was home base for the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., who along with other civil rights leaders, planned the Selma to Montgomery marches for Black voting rights, has been acquired by a historical museum in Michigan and will be moved to a site near Detroit for preservation. It will be dismantled starting this summer and trucked more than 800 miles north to The Henry Ford's Greenfield Village in Dearborn. The project is expected to take two to three years. (Jawana Jackson via AP)

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House where King planned Alabama marches moving to Michigan
By COREY WILLIAMS - Associated Press
Mon,04/17/23-4:50AM , 560 Reads
DEARBORN, Mich. (AP) — A lot was happening in March 1965 in the bungalow in Selma, Alabama, that then-4-year-old Jawana Jackson called home, and much of it involved her “Uncle Martin.”
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A crowd of over 300 people protest the killing of Patrick Lyoya in Grand Rapids, Mich., April 16, 2022. The 26-year-old Congolese refugee was fatally shot by a Grand Rapids police officer after resisting arrest during a traffic stop on April 4. (Eric Seals /Detroit Free Press via AP)

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Police reforms tested in city where officer killed Black man
By COREY WILLIAMS - Associated Press
Sun,04/02/23-8:44AM , 448 Reads
The Rev. James Stokes remembers Grand Rapids following the slaying of George Floyd, when demonstrations devolved into rioting that left businesses damaged and scores of people arrested.
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