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Detroit City Council, in a 7-1 vote on Tuesday, approved an ordinance that would create a buffer zone requiring protesters — within a 100-foot radius of a health care building entrance — to ...
Andrew Carney (1794–1864), founder of the Carney Hospital [4] Relief of the Miraculous Medal on the facade of Carney Hospital (2006). Carney Hospital was established in 1863 in South Boston by Andrew Carney with a $75,000 donation and with Sister Ann Alexis Shorb, Carney's choice for its first administrator and a member of the Daughters of Charity of St. Vincent de Paul.
Little, 25, a rapper and producer from Detroit’s east side, arrived at a plaza outside the city’s police headquarters May 29 to find what he called a "beautiful protest,” full of "a lot of ...
Protests over the construction of a new 85-acre training center for police and firefighters in Atlanta have spread well beyond the city’s limits, and are gaining momentum across the country.
In 1992 the Detroit Board of Education voted to move Malcolm X Academy, an "African-centered" curriculum school, into the former Leslie school. [11] Malcolm X had 470 students, one of whom was white. The move prompted a protest from the community, which at the time was a majority White working class community. [ 12 ]
The first recorded riot in Detroit, Michigan broke out on June 17, 1833. The state had prohibited slavery and was considered free. Because of its proximity to Canada, across the Detroit River, the city became a station on the Underground Railroad by which refugee slaves from the South sought freedom. Some also settled here rather than ...
With the city on the verge of bankruptcy, most of the department's remaining services were contracted out to a private agency, the Institute for Population Health (IPH). [2] However, upon successful progress post-bankruptcy the City of Detroit was able to take control of many of the services that were transitioned to IPH in 2014 and 2015. In ...
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