I wanted to shut down my social media activity for a period after my mother joined the ancestors yesterday. Just wanted to grieve. But I had a dream last night where she directed me to be strong and keep going with the posts. She loved my Detroit history contributions.
NEW: @RepRashida (D-Det.) responded today to @MichiganAdvance's request for comment regarding Democratic criticism of her “From the river to the sea" X post. Tlaib: "My colleagues are much more focused on silencing me...than saving lives" in Gaza & West Bank. Full story coming.
.@RepRashida tells @MichiganAdvance Wednesday: “I do not support targeting and killing of civilians, whether in Israel or Palestine. Fact that some have suggested otherwise is offensive and rooted in bigoted assumptions about my faith and ethnicity.” #IsraelPalestineConflict
This one really hurts. I'm a 30+ year Detroit communicator who has covered crime as a reporter and worked to help address it as a government staff official. No question, like many of you, I've seen a lot in the Motor City. Candidly, though, I'm shook by this one.
On this day in 1889:
William Ferguson, a Black man, enters a Detroit restaurant. He is told “We cannot serve your kind of people here.” He will challenge policy in court. @MISupremeCourt will rule in 1890 that refusal was illegal. Ferguson will be elected to Mich. House in 1893.
THIS JUST IN: U.S. Sens. Debbie Stabenow and Gary Peters today announce U.S. Dept. of Transportation will grant Michigan Dept. of Transportation $104M to "reconnect the neighborhoods destroyed" by I-375 in Detroit. Gov. Gretchen Whitmer has a presser on the subject at 10 a.m.
