Kelly Stafford, Wife Of Detroit Lions QB, Calls Michigan ‘Dictatorship’ Over State’s COVID-19 Restrictions

Kelly Stafford, Wife Of Detroit Lions QB, Calls Michigan ‘Dictatorship’ Over State’s COVID-19 Restrictions

Kelly Stafford, the wife of Detroit Lions quarterback Matthew Stafford, called the state of Michigan a “dictatorship” over new restrictions meant to slow the spread of coronavirus. As Click on Detroit reported, Stafford went on a rant in a new video posted to her Instagram stories, saying it is unfair for the state to place […]

Big Sean Discusses Mental Health Struggles While Working On His New Album

Big Sean Discusses Mental Health Struggles While Working On His New Album

Rapper Big Sean opened up about his mental health struggles in a series of tweets describing his feelings leading up to the September 4 release of his new album, Detroit 2. The musician explained that the length of time he spent creating the project caused him unexpected stress and feelings of anxiety. “While I was […]

Eminem Confronts Man Who Broke Into His House

Eminem Confronts Man Who Broke Into His House

Rapper Eminem reportedly came face-to-face with a home intruder earlier this month at approximately 4 a.m. in his Detroit, Michigan, mansion. Information regarding the invasion and the intruder has only recently been released, according to TMZ. Eminem’s home is heavily secured, so much so that it should be incredibly difficult for someone to break in. […]

Bank Calls Police On Detroit Man Trying To Cash Settlement Checks From Racial Discrimination Lawsuit

Bank Calls Police On Detroit Man Trying To Cash Settlement Checks From Racial Discrimination Lawsuit

A Detroit man who had been awarded a settlement from a racial discrimination lawsuit says he only found more discrimination when went to his bank and tried to cash the checks. Sauntore Thomas had claimed that a former employer racially discriminated against him, and eventually the two sides reached a confidential settlement that left the […]

Detroit Firefighters Will Face Discipline After Posing For New Year’s Eve Selfie In Front Of Burning Home

Detroit Firefighters Will Face Discipline After Posing For New Year’s Eve Selfie In Front Of Burning Home

The owners of a Detroit home are expressing outrage after a group of firefighters stopped to pose for a selfie in front of the burning building on New Year’s Eve — a picture that the owners said prevented them from saving the structure. Those individuals are now facing discipline for the ill-timed selfie, according to […]

Cardi B & Bernie Sanders Discuss Education, Jobs, & Police Brutality In New Video

Cardi B & Bernie Sanders Discuss Education, Jobs, & Police Brutality In New Video

Cardi B is continuing her recent foray into politics as she gets set to release a new video with Sen. Bernie Sanders, who the New York rapper has supported in his bid for the Democratic Party’s nomination for president. In a video posted to Sanders’ official Twitter account, the two prepare to discuss politics in […]

Eminem’s Daughter Hailie Scott Shares Stunning Selfie In Honor Of Detroit’s Birthday

Eminem’s Daughter Hailie Scott Shares Stunning Selfie In Honor Of Detroit’s Birthday

Eminem’s daughter Hailie Scott is a girl with a lot of pride for her hometown of Detroit, Michigan. She opted to share a stunning selfie of herself with her 1.6 million Instagram followers in honor of Detroit’s 318th birthday, and her followers loved the snap. In the picture, Scott looked stunning in a simple white […]

Detroit Festival Afrofuture Fest Backtracks After Charging White People Double

Detroit Festival Afrofuture Fest Backtracks After Charging White People Double

A Detroit music festival, Afrofuture Fest, came under fire recently when it was discovered the event was charging white people twice the amount for entry than it was for people of color. Listings on Eventbrite for the festival were selling tickets for “Early Bird POC,” people of color, at $10, and tickets for “Early Bird […]

Detroit Police Chief Says There’s A Reason His Officers Escorted Neo-Nazis Disrupting Gay Pride Parade

Detroit Police Chief Says There’s A Reason His Officers Escorted Neo-Nazis Disrupting Gay Pride Parade

Detroit’s chief of police said that the neo-Nazis who showed up to counterprotest the city’s Pride Parade wanted to start “Charlottesville No. 2,” Yahoo News reports. June is Pride Month when the LGBTQ community celebrates itself and raises awareness of the issues in the community by hosting parades, outreach events, educational opportunities, and the like. […]

Aretha Franklin’s Detroit Mansion Sells For $300,000

Aretha Franklin’s Detroit Mansion Sells For $300,000

One lucky Michigan home buyer was able to land a historic bit of property thanks to the recent acquisition of Aretha Franklin’s Detroit home. USA Today reports that Franklin’s estate sold the 5,600-square-foot abode she once owned just south of 7 Mile Road to a Northville local last month. The party that made the purchase […]

Election Day Ballot Problems For Voters In Georgia, Florida, And Other Key States

Election Day Ballot Problems For Voters In Georgia, Florida, And Other Key States

Tuesday was full of frustration for voters in New York, Michigan, Florida, Arizona, and Georgia, among other states, as long lines and voting machine malfunctions put a wrench in the Democratic process on Election Day. The national hotline for reporting poll problems was already flooded with calls by 5 p.m. EST, reports USA Today, with […]

A Second Detroit Funeral Home Is Found With Fetuses’ Remains, In This Case, 63 Of Them

A Second Detroit Funeral Home Is Found With Fetuses’ Remains, In This Case, 63 Of Them

For the second time in a week, the decaying remains of infants were found at a Detroit funeral home, and Michigan investigators are scrambling to find the link between the two seemingly unrelated cases. As The Detroit Free Press reports, investigators turned up Friday at the city’s Perry Funeral Home, where they found the remains […]

Cops Follow Anonymous Tip To Discover 11 Dead Infants Hidden In A Ceiling

Cops Follow Anonymous Tip To Discover 11 Dead Infants Hidden In A Ceiling

Michigan state officials received an anonymous tip that led them to the horrifying discovery of 11 dead infants. The bodies were found hidden in the ceiling of a closed funeral home on Friday afternoon. The bodies were discovered by the Michigan Department of Licensing and Regulatory Affairs. They were acting on an anonymous letter they […]

Museum That Hosted Aretha Franklin’s Public Visitation Opens THINK Exhibit In Her Honor

Museum That Hosted Aretha Franklin’s Public Visitation Opens THINK Exhibit In Her Honor

The “Queen of Soul” may have left us earlier this year, but a museum in Detroit that hosted a public visitation for Aretha Franklin says it intends to continue honoring her with a new exhibit opening this week. THINK is a “tribute to the Queen of Soul,” according to curators at the Charles H. Wright […]

Aretha Franklin Mural In Detroit’s East Market Is Defaced Overnight

Aretha Franklin Mural In Detroit’s East Market Is Defaced Overnight

Instead of the Queen of Soul’s singing face, the mural in Detroit’s East Market was covered in gobs of paint. Empty paint cans were scattered on the ground surrounding the mural. The original mural artwork was created by London-based artist Richard Wilson, who was at the mural site repairing the damages on Saturday, reports the […]

Gladys Knight To Give Performance In Tribute Of Aretha Franklin At American Music Awards

Gladys Knight To Give Performance In Tribute Of Aretha Franklin At American Music Awards

Singer Gladys Knight is set to lead a tribute for late singer Aretha Franklin at the American Music Awards, reported Rolling Stone. She will be joined by Ledisi, Mary Mary, Donnie McClurkin, CeCe Winans, and musical director Rickey Minor during the event set to air live October 9 on ABC. Dick Clark Productions confirmed that […]

Aretha Franklin ‘Think’ Exhibit Opens In Detroit This Week

Aretha Franklin ‘Think’ Exhibit Opens In Detroit This Week

Aretha Franklin will be remembered in a new exhibition named Think: A Tribute to the Queen of Soul that will open at the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History Tuesday in the Grammy Award-winning singer’s hometown of Detroit starting Tuesday. The exhibit, titled after one of Franklin’s biggest hits from the movie The […]

Comerica Park Employee Caught On Video Allegedly Spitting On Pizza, Gets Arrested

Comerica Park Employee Caught On Video Allegedly Spitting On Pizza, Gets Arrested

A Comerica Park employee was caught on video allegedly spitting on a customer’s pizza, and he told a co-worker that he did so because he was having a “bad day.” As The Detroit Free Press reports, Quinell May, 17, says that he witnessed another employee — later identified by WXYZ-TV in Detroit as Jaylon Kerley […]

Detroit Teen Stabs Friend To Death Over A Boy In High School Classroom Fight

Detroit Teen Stabs Friend To Death Over A Boy In High School Classroom Fight

One student is dead after a fight between two girls in a Detroit classroom. WKRG reports that a 16-year-old girl was stabbed to death on Wednesday morning by another teen girl in a fight over a boy at Fitzgerald High School in suburban Detroit. Warren Police Commissioner William Dwyer stated that the two girls were […]

Detroit Council Votes To Rename Park For Aretha Franklin

Detroit Council Votes To Rename Park For Aretha Franklin

Detroit’s City Council unanimously approved a motion to rename a park in honor of Aretha Franklin on Tuesday, according to the Detroit News. City Council President Brenda Jones, Mayor Mike Duggan, and Franklin’s family were on hand to announce that Chene Park would be renamed to the Aretha Louise Franklin Amphitheater. Mayor Duggan first announced […]

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