May is my production month for JB’s Ice Pops! I make 10,000 popsicles by hand using whole fruits and herbs from Detroit and Michigan farms.

Attendance at Michigan's most popular state park continues to rise. Belle Isle attendance passed 5.5 million in 2023.

The island only hit capacity twice last year. MDNR attributes improved bike connection to the mainland and traffic flow upgrades.

Circling back 💪🏽: After seven years at the helm, MLK50 founder Wendi C. Thomas will step down as executive director. We’re excited to announce Thomas will return to her first love as an investigative editor and reporter. Read more about this new chapter bit.ly/4al0Mib

70 years after Brown ruling, inequities beset Michigan’s vulnerable students bit.ly/4dIArOc

Stephen Henderson #CreatedEqual My - perhaps unrealistic- dream: put Jefferson Ave underground downtown to connect Downtown to Hart Plaza and make the Ren Cen main levels a large attraction for kids and families with a large aquarium.

Today on #CreatedEqual , Stephen Henderson is chatting with Kalea (Kay-lee) Hall and urban consultant Harriet Saperstein about what GM’s move tells us about the city’s progress and priorities. Take a listen.

On today’s #CreatedEqual author and journalist AJ Jacobs joined the show to discuss how he spent a year living out the words of a 200-year-old document.

Listen here!
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Michigan law bans lobbyists from providing expensive gifts to legislators.

But first-of-their-kind financial disclosures accidentally revealed a system of lobbyists in Lansing helping officeholders score tickets to sporting events. detroitnews.com/story/news/pol…

When Memphis renters have turned to militant tactics in the past, the tone has felt fundamentally different, but retaliation from housing officials and a lack of outside support have made tenants much less willing to risk eviction by organizing together. bit.ly/3OA84qr

Seat mate on yesterday’s flight said he knew me from somewhere and I was like probably not and this dude says ‘did you wear a black tutu and a Slayer tee to see the Cocteau Twins in Detroit in 1990?’ I was like, well fuk yes that was me! He said he never forgot my fit. Same, man

Mini-documentary I worked on about the Detroit People's Food Co-op, produced by One Detroit Detroit PBS.

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After the Poor People’s Campaign faded, Memphis tenant organizers carried the torch. Where did the movement go? bit.ly/4bucnNW

Minutes before House hearing on allegations of bias at NPR, Reporters Without Borders condemns the exercise:

WDET 101.9FM Malachi Barrett Olga Stella Stephen Henderson A cement monument can't replace #ReparationsNow owed. Mass market solicit residents uprooted. My 1$t house was on Maple & Chene. 1951. We're still around. Blessings.

WDET 101.9FM Malachi Barrett Olga Stella Stephen Henderson 100%. This is an interchange project to make it easier to get in & out of downtown for events with a side of saving money by eliminating the costly bridges over I-375.

WDET 101.9FM Malachi Barrett Olga Stella Stephen Henderson Reminder that by the time they started building I-375, Black Bottom was long gone. Turning the below grade highway back into a surface road will not reconnect anything. The old street grid was destroyed long ago.

Can removing a highway right the wrongs of the past?

Malachi Barrett and @OlgasStella join Stephen Henderson on #CreatedEqual to discuss MDOT’s plans to remove I-375 and replace it with a surface-level boulevard.

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Detroit City Council to assemble commission to represent renters bit.ly/3QzzjSZ

Change in Memphis starts with creating Black wealth bit.ly/3Sy5kMo

What’s the value of white privilege or advantage in American society?

Journalist and author Tracie McMillan joins Stephen Henderson on #CreatedEqual to discuss how she quantifies it in her new book “The White Bonus.”

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