What is Community Engagement?
Views of a Former Detroit Works Project Strategist by Angie Allen The major tension in Detroit’s land use planning for decades lies in the question of involvement: which people are […]
Category Archives: Summer 2011 Issue
Featuring Artist Nicole Macdonald
The Godboldo Family Heals
by Paul Abowd Ariana Godboldo’s illness began with a vaccination. After several years of homeschooling, her mother Maryanne decided to enroll the 13-year-old in Detroit Public Schools. But to enroll […]
Poetry Agents
by Paul Abowd The Citywide Agents are a group of young writers who met through afterschool workshops sponsored by Detroit literary arts organization called InsideOut. By last summer, they were […]
Black and Proud: Putting Community Back into Queer Organizing
by Jackson Bartlett “We’re here, we’re queer, and we’re not afraid of Detroit,” seemed to be the refrain at this year’s Motor City Pride. Held on this side of the […]
Austerity Pleasures: A Look at the Snyder Budget Crisis
by D. Sands The recent news that Michigan’s economy is bringing in higher than expected tax revenues must strike Governor Snyder’s true believers as a little surprising. Ever since the […]
No Corner is Illegal
by Carmen Mendoza-King From my front porch, I can see the corner—a corner from which the movement of my neighborhood resonates. Jaywalked daily, the corner is between two crosswalks that […]
Detroit Collages: Q&A with Featured Artist Nicole Macdonald
The Best Places You’ll Never See CM: Why this title for your collages? Are these places in Detroit people can’t see? NM: The title is taken from photographer Eliot Porter’s […]
Catherine Ferguson Academy Stays Open: Now What?
by Paul Abowd Emergency Manager Roy Roberts said June 16 would be the last school day ever at Catherine Ferguson Academy. An hour before hundreds gathered to rally outside the […]
Critical Moment 