Bill Scott from a promotional poster for his book, “Hurt, Baby, Hurt.” The father The origins of the Scott family’s story is a familiar one in Detroit. William Walter Scott II, the owner of the blind pig and Bill Scott’s father, was born in Georgia and came to Detroit as child, just as the “Great […]
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He started the Detroit riot. His son wrestles with the carnage: Part 3
Bill Scott with his sister Wilma and an unidentified friend (courtesy photo) Ann Arbor Bill Scott never did move back to Detroit. For the Ann Arbor of that era was a cauldron of activism, music, drugs and experimental ways of living and thinking, with John Sinclair and the White Panthers, SDS, feminist scholars, the Black […]
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Segregation then and now: Metro Detroit
Following the fire and violence of 1967, Detroit established itself as the most segregated metro area in the country, with African Americans confined to narrow sections of the city and much of the suburbs a no-go zone. (See a Bridge report on the changes.) Today, hundreds of thousands of African Americans live in communities across […]
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Black flight to suburbs masks lingering segregation in metro Detroit
Residential racism may be less overt than in the 1960s, but whites still live among whites, and blacks among blacks, 50 years after the violence of 1967.
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DJC Poll: Blacks, whites differ in opinions of treatment in local courts
Black and white residents of southeast Michigan differ in their perceptions of how people of color are treated in local courts, according to a recent poll commissioned by the Detroit Journalism Cooperative. About half – 49 percent – of African-Americans surveyed said blacks were treated worse in the courtrooms, but just 16 percent of whites […]
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Will Detroit school board candidates choose to fight or unite?
Some of the 63 candidates for school board want to carry on the fight against the state’s financial oversight. Others vow to work within the state’s restrictions. See our database on each candidate.
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The War on Crime, not crime itself, fueled Detroit’s post-1967 decline
In this Q-and-A, historian and National Book Award finalist Heather Ann Thompson argues that draconian police tactics in black Detroit neighborhoods had as much to do with the city’s decimation as white flight and lost jobs
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Three prison reform ideas drawing bipartisan support
Increasingly, policymakers across the political spectrum are coalescing around specific areas to reduce prison populations and successfully integrate inmates back in their communities.
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School choice, metro Detroit’s new white flight
Nearly 50 years after the racial tumult of 1967, state schools of choice policies are helping to create more racially segregated districts in metro Detroit and beyond.
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DATABASE: How 'school choice' has changed Michigan districts
See how school choice has changed racial demographics in some districts across the region
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