Detroit Hispanic Development Corporation's social entrepreneurship program includes a six-week course on marketing, budgeting ...

Through its resources, innovative lending, wealth-building initiatives and economic justice advocacy, OppFund has empowered ...

A burning field, forest, or prairie in your local park may be an alarming sight, but sometimes it's actually a sign of an ...

Federal Medicaid cuts threaten the very lives of those living with serious mental illness, disabilities, and substance use ...

A transformative blueprint: invest early, trust parents, and recognize that nurturing families yields a huge return. Across Michigan, a growing number of communities are redefining when education ...

1: A brief history of an exquisite neighborhood In the 1870s, lumber baron and U.S. Senator Thomas Palmer inherited 160 acres of land from his mother in the area we know today as Palmer Park. (For a ...

As we celebrate a decade of publishing in Detroit, we look back on the growth of the city's urban agriculture movement in recent years.

Chess Grandmaster Hikaru Nakamura, the strongest American chess player (currently fourth-ranked in the world), played a simultaneous exhibition (or, simul) against 50 metro Detroit-area students. The ...

The alley has traditionally been a dingy place littered with trash and puddles. But several recent projects in Detroit have repurposed the typically unwelcoming environment of an alley in innovative ...

Measuring access to groceries and fresh produce is a longstanding Detroit conundrum, particularly around discussions of "food deserts" and the more layered understanding of "opportunity deserts".

We kick off a three-part series on housing in Detroit with an examination of how the single-family home became the city's dominant housing type.