—A remarkable look at Detroit’s transformation over the 20th century, and the tense race relations that accompanied it—
The Non-fiction Feature
The Origins of the Urban Crisis: Race and Inequality in Postwar Detroit
Author: Thomas J. Sugrue
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Pages: 432 | 2014
Some defined homeowners’ rights as an extension of their constitutional right to freedom of assembly. They had a right to choose their associates. That right would be infringed if their neighborhoods were racially mixed.
The Children’s Spot
Swing
by Kwame Alexander
Police officers
don’t say freeze
like they do
in the movies…
He loves somebody.
He’s gotta love somebody.
And I hope he remembers
somebody loves us too.
The Product Spot
The Detroit Institute of Arts
The Detroit Institute of Arts Museum has one of the largest art collections in the U.S.–it has collections spanning from ancient Egyptian and European works, as well as an impressive research library and archives.