Before ballots even began to be counted at TCF Center, Republican poll challengers were determined to find fraud and conspiracy in what was instead democracy in action, writes a Democratic poll challenger.
Danielle L. McGuire
A guest author for Bridge Magazine.
Danielle McGuire is an award-winning historian and author of “At the Dark End of the Street: Black Women, Rape and Resistance – a New History of the Civil Rights Movement from Rosa Parks to the Rise of Black Power.” She is working on a book, due to be published next year, about the killings at the Algiers Motel during the Detroit civil unrest of 1967.
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Michigan has made huge strides testing sexual assault evidence. But even in this era of reckoning, black women are deemed unworthy of rape.
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Say her name: Shawana Hall. She is a hero.
Shawana Hall had a troubled life but persevered. She spoke up against all odds.
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Detroit Police killed their sons at the Algiers Motel. No one ever said sorry.
Three black teens died at the Algiers 50 years ago today. So did faith in justice for their families.