The MSU Museum has released a curriculum guide for teaching K-12 students about Detroit’s Black Bottom Neighborhood. The ...

A local group is committed to documenting the experiences and realities of residents from Detroit's Black Bottom neighborhood.

Looking back on a decade of gathering and sharing oral histories from Detroit’s Black Bottom neighborhood. Many Black Americans moved to Detroit during the Great Migration. But, due to discriminatory ...

He mentioned Paradise Valley and Black Bottom, the once thriving historical Black neighborhoods in Detroit that were demolished to give way for the construction of the I-375 corridor. “ ...

A 1951-era map of Black Bottom, the predominantly Black part of Detroit that was demolished for redevelopment in the '50s and '60s. A mural dedicated to Motown, Smokey Robinson, Berry Gordy.

Now it's a Detroit institution, like Bert himself. The hallways tell a story. A rendering of Bert as a boy in the 1950s, wearing the same tam he does these days, running his paper route. A 1951-era ...

Among the musicians on Forces of Nature, Henderson is from Detroit, Tyner and Grimes ... made up of residents of working-class Black neighborhoods proud of their city’s young talent.

California wildfires continue with dry conditions and powerful winds —which are due to last through Friday — fueling at least five fires.

Yet while white people felt welcomed, many Black residents said their civil rights were violated. In 1971, after a trial, U.S. District Judge Damon Keith ruled that the city had intentionally targeted ...

Jr. to Paradise Valley and Black Bottom musicians, all the way up through the techno and hip-hop performers. “Detroit was so intricately involved in the production of so much music that some ...

(WXYZ) — Black History Month kicks off on Saturday, Feb. 1, 2025, and events throughout metro Detroit are honoring the history, culture and legacy of African ...