"I think if you do it, and you care about it, why aren't you a writer?" says Kelsey Ronan, the operations director at Room Project. "We support you. You're at the table, same as the person who's in The New York Times this week, same as the person who has this great new essay coming out, or the poet who's a couple of books into her career. We see you. You're a writer too."

“We are working hard toward rehabilitating and renovating the Malcolm X house, with the goal of transforming the home into a museum that will showcase Malcolm’s life history, with special focus on his human and civil rights activism, as well as his relationship to the city of Inkster, which he referenced in one of his final speeches,” says Aaron Sims, executive director of Project We Hope, Dream & Believe.

While a lack of financial resources impacts the Detroit school district’s ability to obtain quality textbooks and teachers, these parents are making it work.  

A recent report by Detroit Future City (DFC) has found that residents – and in particular African-Americans, who have an unemployment rate 1.5 times that of white people – do not have a clear path to accessing middle-class wage jobs in the city. Here's how that can change.

Detroit-born Khalid el-Hakim’s mobile museum has evolved into one of the biggest collections of African American history and artifacts in the country. Now the pioneer in Black Museum Studies is touring Michigan, from Bloomfield Hills to Beaver Island.