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Black women have long been a loyal voting bloc for the Democratic Party, and the prospect of Kamala Harris becoming president is fueling a Detroit movement to support her in November.
The state is spending $17 million to expand 22 sites into wellness centers to provide preventive care in an effort to curb racial disparities in health outcomes.
The state settled a civil rights complaint filed by environmental groups, who said the plan would have an 'unlawful impact on human health' in a predominately Black and Latino community.
Vice President Kamala Harris promised to strengthen protections for unions in a Labor Day address that praised labor for working to ‘demand fair pay, better benefits and safe working conditions.’
Thanedar, the first-term representative and millionaire entrepreneur, won a contested primary to face Martell Bivings in the general election for the heavily Democratic district.
Detroit, Cleveland, Chicago, Milwaukee, Windsor and Toronto, though close to the Great Lakes, are all urban 'heat islands.' Experts say these cities have unique opportunities to create more green spaces to cool things down.
Three Detroit neighborhoods will host a combined 104 acres of solar fields under a plan Mayor Mike Duggan says will target "some of the most blighted areas in the city."
Cities like Detroit, with lots of buildings and infrastructure that absorb and re-emit heat, are considered urban heat islands, but the tracking of related health events is lacking.
Former President Donald Trump was back in Detroit again on Saturday. He picked up the endorsement of former Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick and some rappers, but has little chance of winning the predominantly Democratic city
Trump has traditionally rallied supporters in predominantly white regions of Michigan, but his weekend roundtable in Detroit signals an interest in courting Black voters in the state’s largest city.