The heat is not just creeping in—it’s already here, and Detroit isn’t waiting to act. With weekend forecasts showing ...

Voters in District 5 will elect a new council person for the first time since 2013, when City Council president Mary Sheffield became the youngest person ever elected to the body. The district spans ...

A date that speaks of freedom delayed. On that day, Union Army General Gordon Granger arrived in Galveston, Texas and announced what should have already been a reality. The Emancipation Proclamation, ...

1968— The United States Supreme Court bans racial discrimination in the sale and rental of housing. The deci­sion came in a case known as Jones v. Alfred H. Mayer Co. The court used as its precedent ...