April Smith
LATEST ARTICLES BY April Smith
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U.S.
Black Flint Rising: After the fix, will injustice remain?
March 7, 2016"My fear is in two years, pipes will be fixed but all the injustices that brought this about will remain."
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Labor
Quill Pettway, 94: A giant laid to rest
January 20, 2015Quill Pettway, labor organizer and civil rights pioneer was part of a generation of Communists and radicals who made Detroit's rich labor and civil rights history.
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U.S.
Detroit bankruptcy solved – for now: What about other cities?
November 10, 2014Everyone is congratulating Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder and his emergency manager, Kevyn Orr, for helping to craft a bankruptcy settlement in Detroit.
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U.S.
Remembering Mandela in Detroit: You are my friends and comrades
December 6, 2013When Nelson Mandela was in Detroit a special rally was held - not in a fancy ballroom or millionaire's home - but at the Ford Rouge auto plant with autoworkers.
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Labor
McDonald’s workers fed up with what company dishes out
December 5, 2013The movement to raise the minimum wage for fast food workers got a boost here Thursday.
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Opinion
March on Washington – right place to be in 1963 and 2013
August 21, 2013It's 50 years later but we still have to march. We're marching for Trayvon. We're marching for voting rights - still!
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U.S.
Protesters demand GE pay its taxes
April 25, 2012Chanting "GE, pay your taxes," several thousand rallied in downtown Detroit this morning, the site of the GE annual shareholders meeting.
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U.S.
Al Fishman, Michigan peace and justice champion, dies at 83
May 25, 2011A Detroit City Council resolution mourning Fishman's loss called him "one of our city's finest peace, civil and human rights, and labor activists, advocates and champions."
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