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For Black voters in Michigan, and particularLate Thursday night, Sept.a much bigger ly in Detroit, this election became 14, a historicabout moment unfolded conversation political loyalty, economin survival, Americanrepresentation, labor relations ic andaswhat it really the United Auto Workers (UAW) means to have power. union initiated a strike against There’s something about Michigan politics Ford, General Motors (GM), and pay attenthat makes the rest of the country Stellantis. Forstakes the are firsthigh. time, tion when the For the last six the union took was simultaneous months, Michigan the center of attention action three for U.S.against politics.allIt’s not major absurdDewhen you think troit-based automakers. The action about it. The Palestine-Israel issue is one of the involves geopolitical approximately 13,000 in the world, foremost conversations UAW members inan assembly plants Muslim man and when you pit Egyptian-born across Michigan, Ohio, and against a pro-Israel DemocratMisin the primary souri, who theirpot), jobsthere’s bout to troiters. The symbolism of Black beekeepers revitalizing niably commendable. (and add $80walked to the By Ebony JJmillion Curryoff after existing labor contracts extheir city is a powerful testament to the resilience and be some attention. Amidst the glitz and glamour, the event also showSENIOR REPORTER pired at 11:59 p.m. ingenuity of our community. cased the diversity of talent within our community. From So the cameras were here, and everybody Shortly before midnight on of As the night unfolded, we had the privilege of hon- Paris T. Prichard, a forensic scientist pushing the boundseemed want a piece ofcelebration Michigan’s voters. n to a breathtaking talent, determinaSept. 14, GM released a statement oring other outstanding individuals, each carving their aries of her field, to math wizards like Donna Laster, who tion, and the unyielding spirit of Black excellence, But if you spent any time paying attention to expressing disappointment with the Michigan Chronicle 10th Annual own path to success. Clement “Fame” Brown, the crethe conversations happening inmarked Detroit, its Flint, the strike action,40despite offering 40 Benton Under event Thursday evening. See 40 UNDER 40 page A2 Pontiac, Harbor, Saginaw, Grand RapidsThis year’s ative mind behind Three Thirteen Detroit’s Brand Name, what it drenched termed anin“unprecedented soirée, the theme with received the prestigious Entrepreneur of the Year Award. and other communities across“All theBlack state,Everything you economic package” that included Gold Accents,” transcended and essential- Brown’s commitment to empowering the city through might have noticed beneath all expectations the political noise historic wage increases. Stellantis ly illuminated the golden gems within the that Black voters were doing some thinking. true essence fashion and entrepreneurship has left an indelible mark. of It’s Black charismatic duo of “Entrepreneur of the year – that’s a big deal,” said notexcellence. necessarily Hosted the kindby of the thinking that Andre its Ashway and into Lynzee Mychael from Michigan Chroni- Brown. “It’s always an honor to be honored and it’s makes campaign advertisements, the of governor’s By Jeremy Allen cle’s Finally Friday, night constructed was a triumph so many office talent-and give the party tive priorities. cable news panels or the carefully poll-for the city always a blessing to be in a room full an opportunity to build A Democratic victory would provide EXECUTIVE EDITOR of Detroit and its vibrant community of young Black proed, accomplished, and popular people that look like me. upon the policies ing questions. It was the kind of thinking that and priorities advanced during Whit- the party an important opportunity fessionals. I’m geeked. I started making and selling clothes as a kid happens at the beauty shop, in the barbershop, at Michigan voters appeared poised to mer’s administration. to defend Michigan’s Senate seat and I always knew that I would have a business, but I eveningin sparkled a golden promise asdeliver we and the The gas station, the churchwith parking lot, around a powerful message at the ballot Benson’s campaign centered on prostrengthen its position the closely dinever knew it would be Detroit’s brand name business, celebrated remarkable individuals from various walks DPD Chief James White Says inIncreased the kitchen table and during those conversations box as Democrats moved toward a poten- tecting voting rights, strengthening vided U.S. Senate. so I take a lot of pride in the fact that our business repof life. Among the honorees were the brilliant and vibetween people who have known each other long tial sweep of the state’s four most closely Michigan’s economy, expanding Police oppor- Presence Culled Violence The contest represented more than a our city’s pride.” sionarytoco-founders of Detroit Hives, Nicole Lindsey watched and resents enough speak honestly. And oftentimes, those statewide contests, including tunities for working families and prechoice between two candidates for MichTimothy Paul Jackson. Their work has not only changed Taking home the Corporate Excellence Award was conversations got a bit tense and uncomfortable. governor, U.S. Senate, secretary of state, serving access to reproductive healthAshigan. It was a referendum on the direcBy Andre theFor landscape of beekeeping and urban farming in DeDannis Mitchell, Director of Community Engagement at and attorney general. generations, Michigan’s Black electorate care.that had been the lifeblood DIGITAL tionmending of federalthe policy and inflicted the state’soninness district ofANCHOR towards wounds troitbeen butanalso exemplified thein transformative impact Barton Malow. By Ebony JJ Curry has essential part of the state’s political also expressed disappointment The emerging results suggestedthe a sigJames, who represents Michigan in fluence in national decision-making. Black Detroiters and restoring a sense of becommunity. Black professionals can have on their communities. “It isfor so Michigan importantDemocrats, to recognize that there are young identity. Detroit, in particular, has helpedSENIOR shape REPORTER a statement, saying the company nificant night A of shootings Congress, sought tobyin capitalize on string Republonging that wasinsoPositioned callously torn away in Gilchrist to Become It’s a history marred pain, injus“Together we have created a social, environmental, leaders across the country, many that are born here statewide outcomes through its voting strength, immediately went into contingenwith the party positioned to retain its lican support and concernsGreektown in past. mid-April left Next Secretary of State surrounding the Michigan’s For manyLindDetroiters, Interstate 375, or tice, and economic devastation. More than and financial impact through bees,” said Jackson. Detroit. I represent our city nationally and I tell people, civic institutions, organizing networks, and cy mode to protect its operations. hold on the state’s executive leadership the economy, inflation, public both visitors residents of safety and and I-375, long beenpotentially just another stretch of from The I-375 Boulevard Project is about more sey followed that sentiment with, “It isIfthrough our local residents,ofprimarily Democrat Garlin Gilchrist, Michigan’s ‘Yea I’m astrengthening D-girl I’m the west-side Detroit,’”Black, were deeply political relationships. voter has while its130,000 influThe rooted UAW has branded the inthis bustling downtown desthe direction of state government. urban highway, artery connectthan just correcting historical injustices; it’s partnerships and had collaborative efforts that we existence inainconcrete lieutenant governor, faced Republican Mitchell expressed. “But more importantly, I’ve been able forcibly displaced. Families were uprooted, turnout in Detroit been higher in 2016 and Washington. dustrial action as the “Stand-Up tination inabout awe. Anthony One of these The contest attracted considerable ing different parts oftothe city. To some, it’s redefining the future. It will connect Forlini, the Macomb County over 28 plus locations managing the health of 4.5 milhave experiences within an industry that not many of generational wealth was obliterated, and a 2020, for instance, we might not have seen a Strike,” focusing on specific plants At the Michigan Chronicle went national attention because shootings tragically claimed Michigan remere convenience; to time others, it’s an unre- of thriving to surrounding clerk, Detroit in the secretary of stateneighborcontest. lion honeybees – humbly speaking oura movement has us, specifically women color, have the opportunity community was torntoasunder. The downtown Trump within presidency. each automaker. UAW to print at 10 p.m. on election night, with the life of a popular and the be- gap that was placed upon mains a critical swing state in presidenmarkable part of their daily in commute. Howhoods, bridging inspired others locally, nationally, and even internationengage and I’ve been the youngest person in the room, wounds inflicted by I-375 run deep, tranThe office carries enormous responBut theShawn 2026 midterms weren’t President Fain stated, “This about whethpercent far of precincts reporting, Demo- tial and congressional elections. loved security guard followever, there’s 15 a deeper, decades ago. allyBlack to take on similar missions.” the onlymore Blacktroubling person in the room, the andphysical the onlybarrier Sistah of ina freeway to the city scending sibility, particularly in a politically comer people vote. It was whether strategy will keepwould the companies candidates were projected to win ing a dispute with a patron. story beneathcratic the surface of this seemingly Democratic victory would also Today, room, and I really had to articulate the importance penetrate theAvery soul of Black Detroiters. the state resurgence Paradise Valley petitive where of election administraDetroitItand Hives, a pioneering organization candidates parties still understoodfoundedallbyfourthe guessing. willpolitical give our nationstatewide contests, according to The male suspect allegedly ordinary freeway—aof story of pain, make history as Benson to become showing up,displacegiving chances when others won’t, and soughtback standsbefore as voting a fleeing testament to the indomitable tion, access and public confidence Lindsey and to Jackson, harnesses what it takes earn their votes. the power of urban beeal negotiators maximum leverage the Associated Press election results. This painful legacy can be traced shot the guard ment, and the lasting impact on Black DetroiMichigan’s next governor following her being persistent.” As a trailblazing Black woman thrivspirit of Black Detroiters and the enduring in election results remain major issues. keeping to revitalize neighborhoods in the Motor City. to the nation’s interstate highway program and flexibility in bargaining. And the scene, while his female Detroit’s vote has never been just a number projected victories wouldmale-dominated repre- tenure overseeing ters. issues likeThe ing the election adin a predominantly industry, herstate’s legacy ofGilchrist’s Black excellence. Thisrepresented historic dis-an Their initiative not onlyweaddresses critical of 1956—a program that aimed to connect candidacy if we need to go all out, will. companion is accused of consent ainunwavering significant political achievement There’s a tendency in national covministration. commitment to country fortifying connections The tale begins what is now Lafayette once vibrant for Black environmental conservation but political also provides valuable DPD Chief James White opportunity Democrats tobusinessmaintain the butthe often did so at the expense Everything is on the Detroit table.” Union cealing the trict, weapon in aher bra.forhub for Democrats inbusinesses a state that has become erage to talk about asopportunities though itPark, were between and Detroit’s communities isSenate undeonce known as Black Bottom—a neighes andcontinuity culture, isinexperiencing a renaissance education and employment to Black DeEl-Sayed’s Bid Delivers an office that has been led of marginalized communities. In the case of leaders have also indicated that oneinof the nation’s most consequential These incidents unfolded during an days. unseasonably a voting statistic. When Michigan becomes borhood rooted African-American culture that harkens back to its glory The deNational by Jocelyn Benson. additional plants could be targetI-375, it meant carving a pathStakes through the electoral battlegrounds. warm spring, leading to increased pedestrian traffic and competitive, the conversation inevitably and turns history. Named after its dark, fertile heart of Black structionAsof lieutenant Black Bottom may have torn TheDetroit, U.S. Senate contest between Demed in future if negotiations reinforcing segregagovernor, Gilchrist heightened tensions in the densely populated downtown toward Blackwaves turnout in Wayne County,soil, how The four contests carried implicaBlack Bottom flourished during the midapart a thriving community, but the resolute ocrat Abdul inequality. El-Sayed andarea. Republican brought statewide political experience remainDetroiters stalled. will participate, and whether tion, and perpetuating many tionsthe extending wellaspirations beyond Michigan’s 1900s, nurturing dreams and determination of a new generation of entreMike Rogers represented another definfamiliarity with Michigan’s Fain clarified the union’s strat-enthusiasm to For one to aptly recognize the harm Democrats can generate enough race would deThe surge in and crime and the influx visitors toexecuDeof prominent borders. DetroitersThe likegovernor’s Coleman Young, preneurs and visionaries isofreclaiming that ing moment of the evening. tive branch. egy: “I want to give a major shoutcaused that overcome Republican support elsewhere. Joe Louis, andtermine the state’s for the next by such projects, it is vital to note troit’s downtown core garnered the attention of the Denumerous other direction Detroit leglost legacy. The open and seat politicians became one of the counoutThere’s to the some thousands behind Forlini, meanwhile, campaigned on fourname years.ofThe U.S. renewal Senate contest couldof the planners troit Police Department (DPD), catching them somewhat truth of to members that political arithmeends. But in the urban in some theexperience heart of administering Paradise Valley, Black-at try’s most closely watchedthrough Senate races In his whoWayne are onCounty the picket lines those projects built them directly elections influence the balance of power in Washoff guard. tic. is home to right more than 1.7 milthe 1950s, this vibrant neighborhood was Housing Resource Helpline in ownedthebusinesses are and not his justperspective flourishingon thepopulated retirementcommuniof Democratic now fighting forDetroit’s all of population us. The is approxBy Andre Ash theand heartfollowing of vibrant, county level while the secretary of state lion people, and systematicallyington, dismantled, erased from the James White, Chief ofoffering Police for the Detroit Police Debut thriving, diverse services, prodresponse to the challenges that Sen. Gary Peters. segregation and Stand-Up Strike is a new approach in statewide election operations. ties—oftentimes to reinforce DIGITAL ANCHOR attorney would imately 75% Black. Its influence map, and replaced by ageneral lifeless races stretch of as-determine partment, said: “We were caught somewhat flat-footed ucts, and experiences that pay homage to the residents face in navigating the to replace to striking. Instead of striking all a physician and out former sometimes asEl-Sayed, part of a direct effort who oversees critical election adminiselections is substantial, but reducing Detroit to A victory would phalt. right the ByDemocratic designthe we way wentforinto the preserve spring pastgate. while paving a prosperous complex system of housing serplants at once, select locals will be Wayne County health director, camor eliminate Black neighborhoods. Homelessness to that Detroitration and legal responsibilities. a turnout calculationcontinues misses the fact the party’s control of the office respondeployment, which is less than the mid-summer deployWhile the residential areas bore the brunt vices. The helpline provides a future. From jazz clubs to soul food restaucalled on to stand up and walk out paigned an economic and healthcare plague with ters haveurban a longcommunities, memory. sible for overseeing voter registration, But now, afteron decades of enduring theand rants, Benson Leads Democratic Push for ment, saw we say an uptick in violence that first of this demolition, the heart of Black Bottom, the Black Press, and art galleries to single pointagenda of contact for people affordability, ex- elections and the administration on strike.and This is our generation’s emphasizing families individuals grapplingpromisesits of there is a glimmer of hope Governorlargely scars of I-375, warm weekend.” They remember when political came thriving business center, remained fashion boutiques, this revival is breathing seeking housing assistance and answer to the movement built pandedPlans healthcare access and money out Michigan’s motor vehicle services. with ribbon-cutting the challenges ofthat making on the horizon. have been unveiled to White with ceremonies and disappeared untouched. Restaurants, theaters, clubs, and Democrat Jocelyn Benson, Michigan’s Chief attributes the violence in Greektown to life into the very essence of what once made connects them with the resources our –inthe sit-down strikescliof politics. endsunion meet today’s economic transformofthis once-divisive freewaya combination into a this of when the cameras left, and when the talkbars—the about For Detroit and communities very places secretary that brought Detroit’s current of state, facedthey Repubweather conditions andcultural a surgeepiceninacross popneighborhood a vibrant 1937. We told the Big 3 that Sept. need. mate. Whethertheit’s strugglingabout to new Black Rogers, a former congressman vision to right the wrongs of the and revitalization, excitement devel- community theastate, the outcome have signifitogether—were concenlican U.S. Rep. John James in the race that seeks ulation. ter. It’s resurgence that could extends beyond 14 was the deadline and we meant Support for the helpline meet monthly mortgage payments FBIa agent, to return brick to past whileformer heralding newcomes erasought of inclusivity opments, and the enthusiasm over economic fordowntown how voters interact trated aroundtoHastings the epicenter succeedStreet, term-limited Gov. Gretchen and mortar; it represents thethat resurHe explained,cant “ Weimplications saw numbers we it. gave the soaring companies ourcosts ecofrom the Gilbert Family Foundaor We coping with rental Washington with Republican backing and community revitalization. with the election systemtoinbe coming years. of African-American culture in the city. Whitmer. genceever. of a spirit that refuses subdued. have not seen, People are emerging from COVID nomic demands eight weeks ago tion, which has pledged $10 milin See a housing market marked by and a platform emphasizing economic ALL EYESthan WERE ON MICHIGAN Fueled by more than $100 million Then, in a cruel twist victory of fate, would Hastings A Benson mark a conandfrom there’s a Detroit feeling that in a post-COVID era… and it took more a month to City we’re Councilman Fred Durhal lion over three years to fundsecurity the shockingly high prices, a variety growth, national and conservaSee BLUE WAVE Page Eastern A-2 Page A-2 the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act the Street, too, was obliterated a few years later, tinuation of Democratic leadership in and with venues downtown and the reasons to come get to the table.” III, representing District 7, where program. Wayne Metro Commuof factors contribute to the growproject making way for the Julie construction of I-375. and other partners, this ambitious down withMarket all the resides, activities that going on, we saw told theare Michigan Chronicle, union is pushing for a comSchneider nity Action Agency manages the ingThe issue of people becoming un- Meagan Dunn to eco- of This marked the final blow, sealing the fate aims to create jobs, remove barriershundreds more people and, in particularly, young “It’s still very early in the process, MDOT is prehensive list of demands. This helpline, making it accessible to housed. of Black Bottom and signaling the beginning nomic growth, and reconnect the neighborfolks, teenagers that we hadn’t seen.” all Detroit residents. This initiative simplifies access to the See INVESTMENT Page A-2 Historically, shelterspage have provided a temporary respite of the end for Paradise Valley, the Black busi- hood with the rest of Detroit. It is a Responding step See UAW STRIKE A2 swiftly to the surge in violence, DPD for those in need, often serving as the first or second option City’s various housing services, ensuring that residents in adjusted its deployment plans. Rather than waiting for after exhausting alternatives like staying with friends or need can easily find assistance. mid-summer, they deployed officers in the spring itself family. Shelters offer a place to rest one’s head and a warm “The city and its partners offer a lot of great services to address the situation. meal, albeit sometimes for extended periods. For others, to help Detroiters with their housing needs, but they don’t The rise in visitors to the Greektown area is evident being unhoused means living in cars or makeshift outdoor mean much if people don’t know how to access them,” said various voting options, with election in data the fromcity’s Placer.ai, a location analytics company By Jeremy Allen settings. Mayor Mike Duggan. “Thanks to the efforts of our partners becauseand of discrimination, but verithey officials responsible for processing ballots, specializing in visit trends demographic insights By Lynzee Mychael EXECUTIVE EDITOR and the generous support of the Gilbert Family Foundation, The causes of homelessness are as diverse and complex were also coming because Black fying results, and ensuring that each vote is propthrough geolocation-enabled mobile devices. From JOURNALIST now have a simple process to guide residents to the right as the individuals experiencingMULTIMEDIA it.Detroit In response, theofficials City ofsaywe election voters across the some stuff. erly27, accounted for. was May 1-Aug. 2022,people there weredoing 1.3 million visitsWhen and housing resource and a growing number of programs to Detroit has adopted a holistic approach to combat this issue. cityFrom were the abledays to cast ballotsMiwithout intimdid Black people start things 655,000 visitors to Greektown, according todoing Placer.ai. of their the Great The city missed its expected first election rehelp them.” “Providing services and high-quality housing toworkers personsofoversee idation as election in theTuesday. city?numbers They doing In the same period this year, these increased to gration when thousands Black the counting sults at 9:30 p.m. Baxterstarted said officials Thefrom Gilbert Family Foundation’s broader commitment at risk of or who are experiencing homelessness istoarelease key process and prepare results Tuesinvisitors. this area 1.4 million visits and things 670,000 families flocked to Detroit in search were working toward having 90%intothe 95%1800’s. of the involves pledging $500 million to support projects across priority of the City of Detroit, said Julie Schneider, Director day’s In the 1800’s the major thingboth that of jobselection. and a better life, to the pivresultsdowntown reported byarea 11 p.m., which when MichAs Detroit’s continues toisattract Detroit over the next ten years, with housing initiatives of Detroit’s Housing and Revitalization were doing in Detroit is they Elections Administrator Daniel Baxter otalDetroit roleDepartment. they played in the city’s went to print Tuesday night. residentsigan and Chronicle visitors,they the police department has implebeing a significant were schedule the leaders in fight against “This means focusing on building pipeline of sup-heritage, said thethe city experienced an election in which part of their contribution. cultural and musical mented various measures to the manage the inThe enforcement reporting depends on the comslavery. The Underground Railroad Notably, Detroit has witnessed a consistent decrease in portive housing and coordinating with of to voters hadthe theContinuum opportunity freely Black Detroiters have left anparticipate increased population. Notably, metal detectors have been pletion of ballot processing and the transmission is the rootGreektown inacross the city of deter Detroit recent years, with the number of unhoused residents steadiCare What on the a delivery of critical resources such as the emergency at polling locations throughout the city. delible mark on city. However, strategically placedfrom throughout to theto Federal of results precincts Detroit. Election all of this Black innovation that ly declining. In 2019, approximately 7,847 people were unshelter, rapid rehousing, and diversion prevention proin “Every recentand years, Detroit has expeillegal carrying of firearms. Detroit voter had a chance to cast their workers will continue their responsibilitiesyou as Government Shutdown later.” housed and entered the City’s community response system. grams. It also means preserving and expanding affordable rienced significant gentrification, votes without the fear of intimidation,” Baxter voting totalssee arecoming collected andatreported to the “We have strategically placed them key points, “ In 2021, about 5,687 people experienced homelessness. housing options for Detroiters of all incomes and improving Could Mean which has raised concerns about Aretha said. public. Chief White explains. It Musical has been alegends deterrentlike for some, housing stability though comprehensive service offerings the displacement of long-standing Franklin, Marvin Gaye, and the According to the City of Detroit, since the start of the and some have tested it. If you are legally carrying a He said anticipated voter turnout for TuesElection transparency also remained a focus for Detroiters? available through the Detroit Housing Resource HelpLine Black Similar Motown sound emerged Defiscal year Detroit 2019 to 2021, Detroit saw a 28% decrease in the weapon and carrying a CPL, have a great day. federal Iffrom you’re day’s residents. election was on to para setting with what as officials addressed questions about oband Detroit Housing Services Division within HRD.” sun, there’s a rising spirit, and Blacka midterm guproviding a soundtrack forand the would typically experience during servers from troit, the U.S. Department of Justice See COMBAT HOMELESSNESS page A2 See POLICE PRESENCE Page A-2 Detroiters are reclaiming their place civil rights movement and inspirIn May 2023, the City of Detroit launched the Thousands Detroit bernatorial election. of Detroiters partheir presence at Detroit polling locations. in the city, despite thevoting, challenges ing generations. Motown Records, ticipated through early absentee ballots, Concerns founded had beenbyraised Deposed by gentrification. Berryabout Gordywhether Jr., was not and in-person voting on Election Day. partment of Justice poll watchers could interfere and west sides. Over time, these long after our current phase of genjust a record label but a symbol of During Great Migration, Accordingtheto preliminary voting totals prowith the election process. Baxter dismissed those neighborhoods became centers of trification. Black excellence and empowerment. thousands of Black families from Daniel Baxter vided by election officials, approximately 25,500 concerns, explaining that the presence of observBlack culture and entrepreneurship. “Black people were coming to Dethe South came to Detroit in search Detroit faced elececoDetroiters cast ballots at early in-person voting ers was intendedHowever, to allow as them to monitor Additionally, approximately 68,000 DetroiAccording to Historian Jamon troit because Black churches were nomic decline and population loss of jobs inbetween the booming automobile locations Oct. 24 and Nov. 2. Another ters submitted absentee ballots. tion operations. Jordon Black resilience in the city here, black schools were here, and in the late 20th century, many industry. Despite facing 110,000 voters cast theirdiscriminaballots on Election Day The voting figures reflect participation across has roots that extend far before the its was Black businesses here,” said See BALLOTS Page A-2 Scan the QR Code to Sign Up for the Digital Daily Newsletter tion and segregation, built vi$2.00 at 402 precincts acrossthey the city. brant communities on the city’s east Great Migration and will persist Jordon. “They were coming of course $1.00 See LEGACY page A2

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And Black voters that are entitled to for an Ivery office that ties in determining state- information becomes availthoughtful approach BLAC is housed in the a true transformational ask whether the attention is genuine able. influence over economic expectation that political participation wide election outcomes. causes people to change leader and an outstand-education, Michigan Department of or simply seasonal. Nobody made that development, infrastructure, public should produce something tangible. For now, the developing but also causes the sys- ing CEO, who is more Labor and Economic OpDetroit voters, along more clear this campaign safety, state appointments and the adMichigan attracted so much atten- with residents in Wayne, election-night picture points tems and throughout circumstancportunity. Members repthan worthy of the CEO of cyclethey than are New operating Era Detroit’s Zeek ministration of government. And the tion in 2026 because its elections had Oakland, Genesee, Washt- toward a consequential es resent many professional the polYear Award hecarried just re-historical Williams, who said that too often, race also weight. the potential to shape national power. enaw, and other counties, moment in Michigan poliin to change too,” Ivory ceived, “ said Prof. James backgrounds, including iticians only choose to show up and James, who is Black, represented an But the more compelling story was un- play an important role in tics. economics, law, public said. “TransformationMays, who teaches listen when doesn’t they wantjust BlackC.votes. opportunity for Michigan Republicans safety, health andfolding well- among the people whose votes shaping Michigan’s political al change From Detroit to Lanentrepreneurship and But the realitytois that what happens to elect their first Black governor. That were being pursued so aggressively. arts and culture and ask people do cersupply chain manage- ness, sing and from communities direction. after things; the campaign visit matters most. possibility naturally media. generated discusThey leverage their tain it asks them Black Michigan was having a conment at WCCCD’s Corpoacross the Lower PeninsuBlack voters in Detroit What kind of engagement sion about race, identity and and expertise experiences to change their view ofis happenversation about what it wanted, what and surrounding commu- la to the Upper Peninsula, rate College. “In his 27political ing when a candidate isn’t amid a run? the meaning of representation. to make recommendawhat’s possible and ex- years at WCCCD, it would accept and what it would no nities have historically voters have helped shape Dr. Ivery There’s legitimate to identity the governor on take for granted, in Detroit, cites themalso to adrive that conversalonger has elevatedBut WCCCD to tions a candidate’s racial represented a critical con- the state’s political future. tion happening within the Democratic critical issues affecting change together because Flint, Pontiac, and across the state. stituency for Democratic become nationally recog- policy and a candidate’s commitments If the projected results Party. believe Some voters the Black community. they thatremain what frustrated nized for are excellence andconsiderations. two separate Black Black voters were making decisions candidates. Their participa- hold, Michigan Democrats with political economic con- voters they’re doingdecisions, will create innovation and preparing are not obligated interpret Totolearn more informed about by their own experiences, tion, alongside support from will have delivered a mesditions, and a feeling that their positive change for everyoursupstudents priorities, and understanding of what suburban voters, younger one asprofessionproof of the other. BLAC and this upcoming sage that reaches far beyond port is expected regardless one. That’s how entireof whether ally and personally to do leadership should look like. event, www.michiFor some residents, the visit historic voters and organized labor, Election Day: the state’s their concerns receive adequategreat attenthings in the world.” systems change because gan.gov/BLAC. The rest of the country may have can help determine the out- political direction remains significance of a Black Republican govtion. ernor was meaningful. For others, the been watching Michigan to see which come of statewide contests. firmly in contention, and The aftermath of the 2024 presi- question was whether James’ political political party would win. But Black voters have chosen to give The election also came at dential election made those frustra- positions aligned with their priorities. Michigan had a different question in Democratic leadership ana time when Michigan famtions harder to ignore. Detroit record- Benson, meanwhile, entered the race mind. Who, exactly, is prepared to ed fewer voters than it did in 2020, with a record as Michigan’s secretary work for us when the election is over? ilies continue to confront other opportunity to delivconcerns about housing er. and the city’s political leadership was of state and a longstanding connection forced to confront questions about to civil rights work. As election officials move toward releasing reenthusiasm, trust, and engagement. The choice required voters to consults, their responsibilities include ensuring that Even with an improved turnout in sider experience, policy, party, trust, ballots are properly handled, voting totals are acthese midterms, those questions didn’t and the direction they wanted Michicurately recorded, and results are communicated From page A-1 magically disappear. gan to take. to the public. He said 13 teams, consisting of two people The important thing is to not misBlack voters showed that their poWith hundreds of precincts involved and each, were present during the election. The 26 take frustration for political indiflitical thought isn’t one-dimensional. thousands of ballots submitted through differobservers were joined by representatives from ference. Sometimes people who are It contains generations of political exthe U.S. Congress who also came to observe the ent voting methods, officials remain focused on disappointed are paying closer attenperience, different ideological perspeccompleting the reporting process and providing city’s election operations. tion than anybody else. They know tives, economic interests, and expectaDetroiters with accurate election results. the candidates, the issues, and what’s “There were 13 teams, two people per team. tions about leadership. Any analysis Baxter said the city’s voting operations alat stake. They simply want to know that assumes Black voters will make Twenty-six folks, and then we had representa- lowed residents to exercise their right to vote whether anybody in a position of autives from the U.S. Congress who were here to decisions based on racial symbolism without fear of intimidation, while election offithority understands what’s at stake alone is missing the point because rep- observe the operation as well. Is that unique? Ab- cials continue working to complete the count and for them. solutely not,” he said. “In the 2024 election, we resentation matters, but accountabilihad some people here from Congress. In 2024, we report the results. And Black voters shouldn’t be scold- ty matters more. had representatives from the Department of Jused for their skepticism or for assuming Black Michigan is bigger than tice. We did not have as many back in 2024 or in that their political decisions can be exDetroit previous elections.” plained by party affiliation alone. Another reason Michigan received Baxter’s comments underscored the city’s A Senate race with a much bigger national attention is that the state’s position that outside observers were present to meaning Black political story doesn’t begin and monitor the election rather than disrupt voting The contest between Democrat end at Eight Mile. Delivered Daily to Your Inbox! or interfere with election officials carrying out Abdul El-Sayed and Republican Mike Flint has its own history of political their duties. Rogers put Michigan squarely in the organizing, economic disinvestment, The presence of federal observers and congresnational spotlight. and fights over public health. Pontiac With control of the U.S. Senate po- carries its own experiences with man- sional representatives provided an opportunity tentially hanging in the balance, Mich- ufacturing decline and community re- for outside parties to view the election process igan became one of those states where silience. 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Cavanagh, Hood Win Reelection to Michigan Supreme Court, Maintain Seats on State’s Highest Bench By Jeremy Allen EXECUTIVE EDITOR

Michigan Supreme Court Chief Justice Megan Cavanagh and Justice Noah Hood have won their elections to remain on the state’s highest court, securing eight-year terms following the Nov. 3, 2026, general election. The Associated Press reported the election results, with Cavanagh and Hood prevailing in a six-candidate contest for two seats on the seven-member court. Their victories maintain the court’s existing composition and allow both justices to continue serving on a bench that makes decisions affecting constitutional rights, criminal justice, civil liberties and the interpretation of state law. The election featured two incumbent justices seeking reelection, along with four challengers: Republican nominees Casandra Morse-Bills and Michael Warren, and U.S. Taxpayers Party nominees Thomas Howe and Jody White. Although Michigan Supreme Court elections are officially nonpartisan, candidates are nominated through political party conventions. The election drew attention from both major political parties because of the court’s role in deciding consequential legal and constitutional questions affecting Michigan residents.

Cavanagh was first elected to the Michigan Supreme Court in 2018 and was selected by her fellow justices to serve as chief justice in 2025. She succeeded former Chief Justice Elizabeth Clement in the leadership position. Before joining the Supreme Court, Cavanagh developed her legal career in Michigan and earned her law degree from Wayne State University Law School. She also holds an environmental engineering degree from the University of Michigan. Hood, a Detroit native, joined the Michigan Supreme Court in 2025 after being appointed by Gov. Gretchen Whitmer to fill the vacancy left by Clement. The 2026 election marked his first campaign for a full eight-year term on the court. Before his appointment, Hood served on the Michigan Court of Appeals and the Wayne County Circuit Court’s Third Judicial Circuit. He also presided over the Veterans Treatment Court. He is a graduate of Yale University and Harvard Law School. Following news of the election results, Michigan Democratic Party Chair Curtis Hertel issued a statement celebrating the victories and emphasizing the

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Donavan McKinney Wins Michigan’s 13th Congressional District Seat By Jeremy Allen EXECUTIVE EDITOR

Michigan state Rep. Donavan McKinney has emerged from the 2026 election as the candidate poised to represent Michigan’s 13th Congressional District in the U.S. House of Representatives, as reported by the Associated Press at the time Michigan Chronicle went to print Tuesday night. McKinney’s victory follows a campaign centered on economic fairness, workers’ rights, public education, health care access and restoring Detroit’s historic Black representation in Congress. “Thank you to the people of Detroit, the Pointes, and Downriver for inviting me into your homes and sharing your deepest struggles and problems with me,” McKinney said. “I’ve dedicated my life to public service, and I’m extremely grateful for the opportunity to represent our incredible community in Washington DC. My constituents voted for Democratic Socialism this election because they feel the devastation of corporate greed in their lives – poisonous air, unaffordable housing, job loss, lengthy power outages, Medicaid cuts, and more. Today, they officially elected a team of fighters who will never back down to corporate interests, won’t rest until this administration is held accountable and our people have the freedom to survive and thrive.” The Detroit native’s path to Washington gained momentum in August when he defeated incumbent U.S. Rep. Shri Thanedar in the Democratic primary, overcoming a well-funded incumbent and establishing himself as the party’s nominee in the heavily Democratic district. The November general election placed McKinney against Republican Taras Nykoriak, along with candidates representing smaller political parties. The 13th Congressional District includes Detroit and several surrounding Wayne County communities, including Hamtramck, Highland Park, Ecorse, River Rouge, Romulus, Taylor, Southgate and the Downriver area. McKinney’s election carries significance beyond the change in officeholder. Detroit has a long history of Black congressional representation, including the tenures of former U.S. Reps. Charles Diggs Jr. and John Conyers. That tradition was interrupted when Thanedar, who is not

Black, won the seat in 2022. McKinney’s election is an opportunity to restore that representation while bringing a younger generation of political leadership to the nation’s capital. A lifelong Detroiter and graduate of Detroit Public Schools, McKinney earned a degree in public policy from the University of Michigan. Before entering elected office, he worked in the Michigan Legislature and as an organizer with the Service Employees International Union. He was first elected to the Michigan House of Representatives in 2022, representing the 11th District. His legislative experience and connections to labor and community organizing became central elements of his congressional campaign. McKinney received support from prominent progressive figures, including U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders, U.S. Rep. Rashida Tlaib and U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar. Former U.S. Rep. Brenda Lawrence also supported his candidacy. His campaign platform emphasized policies intended to address economic inequality and the rising cost of living. Among his priorities were stronger protections for workers, increased investment in public education, expanded health care access, clean-energy development and greater accountability for corporations. McKinney also advocated reducing the influence of corporate money in elections and advancing policies that place working-class communities at the center of federal decision-making. His transition to Congress will bring new attention to issues affecting Detroit residents, including housing affordability, neighborhood investment, transportation, infrastructure, employment opportunities and access to quality health care. The district also encompasses communities outside Detroit with distinct economic and infrastructure concerns, presenting McKinney with the responsibility of balancing the needs of urban neighborhoods and surrounding municipalities. Replacing Thanedar also marks a shift in the district’s political representation after two terms under the incumbent, who first won the seat in 2022. For Detroit, McKinney’s election represents another

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Michigan Voters Reject Constitutional Convention, Approve ‘Money Out of Politics’ By Jeremy Allen EXECUTIVE EDITOR

Michigan voters rejected a proposal to convene a constitutional convention and approved a citizen-led initiative to restrict campaign contributions from certain utility companies and government contractors – commonly referred to as ‘Money Out of Politics’ – in Tuesday’s Nov. 3 general election, according to election results projected by the Associated Press. The outcomes will preserve Michigan’s existing state Constitution while bringing new restrictions to political contributions and expanding disclosure requirements for certain political communications. Michigan Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Dr. Abdul El-Sayed campaigned heavily on a promise to get money out of politics, especially following a democratic primary that saw his opponent Congresswoman Haley Stevens spend more than $70 million in a loss. Proposal 1, which asked voters whether Michigan should hold a constitutional convention in 2027 to consider rewriting the state’s governing document, failed. Proposal 2, an initiative focused on limiting the political influence of regulated utilities and government contractors, passed. The rejection of Proposal 1 means Michigan will retain the Constitution adopted in 1963 without convening a convention to review or revise it. The question is required to appear on the statewide ballot every 16 years under the state Constitution. Had the proposal passed, Michigan would have moved toward electing 148 delegates, one from each of the state’s 110 House districts and 38 Senate districts. Those delegates would have gathered to consider changes to the Constitution and could have proposed a comprehensive revision.

Any document produced by a convention would still have required approval from Michigan voters before taking effect. The convention process would have opened every section of the Constitution to potential revision, including provisions governing state government, education, taxation, voting rights, individual liberties and the relationship between state and local governments. With voters rejecting the proposal, that process will not move forward. Michigan’s existing constitutional framework remains in place, and the next regularly scheduled

opportunity for voters to consider calling a convention will come in 2042. Proposal 2 will now introduce changes to Michigan’s campaign finance laws. The citizen-initiated measure targets political contributions from regulated electric and natural gas utilities, certain government contractors and individuals and organizations with substantial connections to those entities. Under the proposal, regulated utilities would be prohibited from making specified

direct or indirect campaign contributions to candidates and elected officials who have authority over matters affecting their businesses. The restrictions also apply to government contractors receiving more than $250,000 annually in government contracts. Certain individuals and organizations connected to those businesses would be subject to the restrictions as well. The measure is intended to limit financial contributions from entities that have

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importance of judicial independence and constitutional protections. “Our democracy calls for three branches of government, each with integrity. It’s more important than ever that those who run our judicial system respect and uphold the rule of law. That’s why Michigan Democrats celebrate the election of Chief Justice Cavanagh and Justice Hood to our state’s Supreme Court — they have and will continue to defend and uphold our state’s Constitution and the democracy it protects,” he said. The two victories come as the Michigan Supreme Court continues to address issues with far-reaching implications for residents across the state. The court serves as Michigan’s highest judicial authority and has the final say on questions involving the state Constitution, statutory interpretation and appeals from lower courts. Recent decisions have addressed criminal sentencing, the state’s sex offender registry, access to the courts and the authority of law enforcement within judicial facilities. The court has also considered matters involving reproductive rights, election administration and the relationship between state law and constitutional protections. The Michigan Supreme Court consists of seven justices who serve staggered eight-year terms. Voters elect justices through statewide elections, while the chief justice is selected by members of the court. With their reelection, Cavanagh and Hood will continue their work on the bench, joining the other justices in deciding cases that will shape Michigan law and public policy for years to come. Their victories also conclude a closely watched contest over two seats on a court whose decisions reach every corner of the state, from Detroit and Wayne County to communities throughout Michigan.

Michigan Voters Reject Constitutional Convention From page A-3 business interests before state and local government officials, including those responsible for decisions involving utility regulation and government contracts. The proposal also expands campaign finance disclosure requirements to cover additional political communications. Under the new provisions, certain communications that identify a candidate or ballot proposal could fall under disclosure rules even when they do not explicitly urge voters to support or oppose someone or something. The changes also specifically extend disclosure requirements to political communications distributed over the internet, requiring greater transparency about who paid for covered political messages. The initiative was organized by Michiganders Money Out of Politics, also known as MOP UP Michigan. Supporters gathered more than 560,000 petition signatures to qualify the measure for the November ballot. Supporters argued that the restrictions were necessary to address the influence of corporate money in elections and strengthen public confidence in government. They maintained that companies with substantial financial interests in government decisions should face limits on their ability to contribute to the political campaigns

of officials responsible for those decisions. The proposal faced opposition from major utility companies, including DTE Energy and Consumers Energy. Opponents argued that the restrictions could limit the political participation of Michigan businesses, employees and affiliated organizations while leaving other sources of political spending largely untouched. They also raised concerns that the measure could shift political influence toward wealthy donors and outside organizations. DTE and Consumers Energy publicly opposed the initiative during the campaign, raising concerns about its potential effects on employees and their ability to participate in the political process through voluntary political contributions. The measure’s approval places Michigan among the states taking steps to regulate certain financial relationships between businesses and public officials. Its implementation will require changes to how affected entities approach political contributions and how certain political communications are reported. For voters, the passage of Proposal 2 means additional campaign finance restrictions will become part of Michigan law, although electionnight approval does not mean every provision takes effect immediately without the required administrative

and legal implementation. The Michigan Bureau of Elections and other responsible state agencies will oversee the application of the new requirements under the state’s campaign finance framework. The two proposals were the statewide ballot questions presented to Michigan voters in the November general election. While the constitutional convention question will return to voters in 16 years, Proposal 2’s approval establishes new rules governing political contributions and disclosure that will affect future campaigns and political activity in Michigan.

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chapter in the city’s longstanding relationship with congressional leadership and the broader fight for political representation. McKinney is expected to take office in January 2027, joining Michigan’s congressional delegation as lawmakers prepare for the next session of Congress. His challenge will be translating the priorities that helped propel his campaign into legislative results for the residents of Michigan’s 13th Congressional District.

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CreatorCon Wants to Help You Become Detroit’s Next Best Content Creator By Biba Adams STAFF REPORTER & REPORT FOR AMERICA CORP MEMBER

That powerful little handheld computer that we all carry around in our pockets that we occasionally make phone calls on is an open door to a world of possibility. This world is often illustrated and brought to us by digital content creators who dominate our social media feeds. Digital Content Creators used to be called “Influencers” and many of them have distinguished themselves by their unique viewpoints and personal vision and experiences of Detroit; these creators include Amber Lewis, Christopher Kyle and Donny Wilson. November 13-15 the largest Midwest conference for creators will return for a fifth year at Huntington Place. CreatorCon, led by Robert Courtney Collins, centers on content strategy, creative ownership, entrepreneurship and the connections that help people grow their brands. The official CreatorCon website notes that, “Today’s most successful businesses aren’t just selling products— they’re building communities, telling stories, and creating content that drives attention and trust. Creator Con exists to help professionals at every stage understand how to leverage marketing, branding, technology, AI, and the creator economy to grow their businesses and expand their influence.”

Here’s Why You Need to Take Action If You See a Yellow Bag on Your Property By Jeremy Allen Over three days, attendees will experience inspiring keynote speakers, interactive workshops, expert panels, networking events, live creator experiences, and meaningful conversations designed to turn ideas into actionThere is a matchmaking element to the conference with opportunities to bring together content creators, entrepreneurs, business owners and brands to explore how to turn creativity and visibility into sustainable business opportunities. “Yeah, absolutely. That is literally what CreatorCon is,” explains Collins. “It is matching business owners who don’t have the time, energy, uh, knowledge of how to use the internet to capture their audience and then creators who don’t understand business, framework, don’t understand how they can be of service to these business owners, or don’t have the relationships to get in contact with these business owners, a place for those things to happen.” CreatorCon is the time and place to have conversations with founders who’s looking for creators to help scale and expand. Plant seeds by communicating the value you bring to anything you participate in. The current slate includes activities such as: Industry-leading keynote speakers, Marketing and branding workshops, Business growth strategies, AI and emerging technology sessions, social media and content creation education, Creator Economy insights, Networking with entrepreneurs, creators, and executives, Brand partnerships and sponsorship opportunities, Live podcasts, activations, and creator experiences, as well as community events and exclusive announcements. Whether you’re building a personal brand, scaling a company, leading a marketing team, launching a startup, or creating content full-time, Creator Con provides the education, relationships, and opportunities to help you grow. There’s also a local education component: a portion of conference proceeds will support student tuition at DSDT College, formerly the Detroit School for Digital Technology. “I don’t want people to overlook is that this is a market-

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Wayne County homeowners behind on their property taxes are receiving information about their outstanding balances, foreclosure deadlines and available assistance through an outreach initiative led by the Wayne County Treasurer’s Office. Beginning October 13, the office has been distributing yellow information bags to properties across the county that have reached forfeiture status. The bags contain important notices about the foreclosure process, upcoming deadlines, payment options and resources available to help property owners address delinquent taxes and protect their homes. The outreach is intended to ensure homeowners understand where they stand in the property tax collection process and what steps they can take to prevent foreclosure. The yellow bags also contain showcause hearing notifications, which are required by law for properties subject to foreclosure. These notices provide property owners with information about their cases, along with resources to help them respond and explore options for resolving their tax debt. In Wayne County, the property tax collection process generally spans three years, beginning when taxes become delinquent and potentially ending in foreclosure if the outstanding balance remains unpaid. Property taxes become delinquent on March 1 following the year they are billed. At that point, unpaid taxes

are transferred to the Wayne County Treasurer’s Office for collection. If the balance remains unpaid, the property enters forfeiture status on March 1 of the following year. Additional interest and fees are added to the amount owed, but homeowners still have an opportunity to pay their outstanding balance or pursue available assistance to prevent foreclosure. Properties in this second year of the process are the focus of the current yellow bag distribution. By the third year, properties with unresolved tax debt become subject to foreclosure. March 31 is generally the final deadline for property owners to redeem their properties before foreclosure proceedings move forward. For example, property taxes billed in 2024 became delinquent on March 1, 2025. Those taxes entered forfeiture status on March 1, 2026, and the properties may become subject to foreclosure on March 31, 2027, if the balances remain unpaid. As part of the current effort, yellow bags are being delivered to properties with any outstanding 2024 or prior-year property taxes as of October 5, 2026. For homeowners who receive a yellow bag, the notice is an opportunity to review their property tax status and take action. Depending on individual circumstances, options may include establishing a payment plan, applying for eligible property tax assistance programs or contacting the Treasurer’s Office for guidance on resolving an outstanding balance.

The office encourages property owners not to ignore the notices or wait until foreclosure deadlines approach before seeking help. Understanding the amount owed, applicable deadlines and available resources can help homeowners make informed decisions about their next steps. The yellow bag distribution is part of the Treasurer’s Office’s ongoing efforts to reach residents throughout Wayne County’s 43 communities. Throughout the year, staff members participate in neighborhood events and provide opportunities for residents to ask questions and receive information about property taxes and available services. Additional outreach efforts include the 10th Annual Veterans Resource Fair, scheduled for Thursday, November 19, 2026, virtual Ask The Treasurer events and the Wayne County Treasurer’s mobile unit, which brings information and services directly into communities. Through these efforts, the office is working to make property tax information more accessible and connect residents with resources that may help them remain in their homes. Homeowners who have questions about delinquent property taxes, foreclosure notices, payment arrangements or assistance programs can contact the Wayne County Treasurer’s Office at 313-224-5990. Additional information about taxpayer assistance programs and available services can also be found at WayneCountyMI.gov/Treasurer.

Money Matters: The ROI of Taking Care of Yourself By Mark S. Lee CONTRIBUTING COLUMNIST

There is a question we should ask ourselves more often: What good is building a successful financial future if we are too exhausted, stressed or unwell to enjoy it? I think about how easily we can become consumed by the business of making a living. We work late to meet deadlines, squeeze in one more meeting, answer emails after hours and put personal priorities on hold because something else seems more urgent. We promise ourselves that we will get more sleep, exercise regularly, eat better or finally schedule that overdue appointment when things settle down. But life has a way of keeping things from settling down. For business owners, professionals and families working hard to build financial security, the pressure to keep moving forward is real. There are bills to pay, employees to support, clients to serve and long-term goals to achieve. Taking time for ourselves can feel unproductive, even indulgent. We may view a day away from work as lost income or a wellness expense as one more item competing for room in an already tight budget. Yet what if we looked at the equation differently? What if protecting our health were not a distraction from financial success, but an essential part of achieving it? We carefully monitor revenue, expenses, investments and savings. We evaluate risks

and plan for the unexpected. We work hard to protect our financial assets. But too often, we overlook the one asset that makes so much of that work possible: our health. Our ability to earn, lead, make sound decisions and enjoy the rewards of our hard work is closely connected to our well-being. Taking care of Mark S. Lee ourselves is not simply a personal responsibility. It is an investment in our most valuable asset. The hidden cost of putting work first For entrepreneurs and business leaders, time is money. Every hour spent developing new business, serving clients or managing employees can feel essential to the bottom line. But what happens when the pursuit of productivity comes at the expense of personal health? Chronic stress, insufficient sleep and unhealthy habits can affect concentration, judgment, energy and performance. Over time, neglecting our well-being may contribute to medical expenses, missed work and diminished earning capacity. For small-business owners, the consequences can be particularly significant. When you are responsible for generating revenue, maintaining client relationships and making critical decisions, your ability to perform is central to the operation.

A business may have a strong sales pipeline, a promising growth strategy and a healthy bank account. But if its owner is exhausted, overwhelmed or unable to work, the entire operation can become vulnerable. The same principle applies to employees and executives. Professional success that consistently undermines personal well-being can carry costs that never appear on a company’s financial statements. Revenue matters. Profit matters. Cash flow matters. But sustainable performance requires people who have the capacity to deliver it. Wellness is an investment, not an expense Businesses routinely invest in technology, marketing, equipment and employee development because they expect those expenditures to generate long-term value. We should apply similar thinking to our health. Regular physical activity, balanced nutrition, adequate sleep, preventive health care and time to recharge can support longterm well-being. Although these habits cannot guarantee good health, they can help us better manage the demands of work and everyday life. The good news is that investing in well-

ness does not have to be expensive. Walking regularly, preparing meals at home, maintaining a consistent sleep schedule and setting reasonable boundaries around work can be practical starting points. Scheduling preventive appointments and addressing health concerns promptly may also help identify problems before they become more serious. For employers, supporting employee well-being can mean encouraging reasonable workloads, making benefits accessible and creating a culture where taking breaks and using earned time off are respected. A wellness initiative, however, cannot replace adequate staffing, fair expectations and supportive management. Employers must address the conditions that contribute to burnout, not simply encourage employees to manage stress more effectively. The objective is not to eliminate ambition. It is to make success sustainable. Managing the cost of staying healthy Of course, wellness has a financial dimension. Health insurance premiums, prescription medications, medical appointments and other expenses can strain household budgets. Small-business owners face additional challenges when weighing the cost of employee benefits against operating expenses. That makes financial planning essential.

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Taking Care of Yourself From page A-1 Review your health insurance coverage, understand your deductible and out-ofpocket maximum, and take advantage of eligible preventive services. Budget for recurring health expenses rather than treating them as financial surprises. If eligible, consider whether a health savings account could help you manage qualified medical expenses and save for future needs. Look for affordable ways to remain active and eat well. A neighborhood walk can be just as accessible as an expensive fitness membership, and preparing meals at home can help control food costs. Most importantly, do not automatically

postpone necessary medical care because of its price. Ask providers about payment plans, lower-cost services or other available resources if affordability is a concern. The goal is not to spend more money on wellness. It is to make smarter decisions that protect both your health and your finances. Redefining the bottom line Perhaps it is time to expand our definition of financial success. A strong bottom line should mean more than a growing investment portfolio, increased revenue or a larger retirement account. It should also mean having the health and energy to enjoy those accomplishments. That requires intentional choices. Some-

times it means declining an opportunity that would stretch you too thin. Other times, it means stepping away from your desk, taking a vacation or making that overdue appointment. It also means preparing financially for the unexpected. Adequate health coverage, emergency savings and, where appropriate, disability insurance can help protect your household if illness or injury interrupts your ability to earn an income. We cannot control every health outcome or financial challenge. We can, however, make decisions today that improve our readiness for tomorrow. As you review your financial goals, consider adding a wellness check to your personal balance sheet. Are your daily habits supporting the future you want? Is your pursuit of professional success leaving

enough room for the life you are working to build? Ultimately, wealth and wellness should not compete with each other. They should work together. The true return on investment is not measured solely by how much money we accumulate. It is also measured by our ability to enjoy the opportunities, relationships and experiences that money is meant to support. Your health is an asset. Treat it like one. The strongest bottom line is the one that allows you not only to succeed, but also to live well enough to enjoy that success. We invite readers, business owners, and future entrepreneurs to follow along, ask questions, and engage. If you have story ideas or questions, you can email Lee at mark@ leegroupinnovation.com or visit leegroupinnovation.com.

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ing and small business conference at its core,” Collins says. He notes that “AI is probably the number one, most talked about thing as it pertains to marketing right now. And I mean, just in general, across all verticals and industries, and one of the most skilled experts in that area is Alicia Little (a keynote speaker). “She’s one of many different speakers who will speak to technology and AI. But then also we have workshops. We have 36 workshops and a few of those workshops will also give information about it as well.” Courtney humbly says that he is thrilled with the growth of CreatorCon which attracts creators from around the country. “Detroit is the home of my marketing agency, Robert Courtney and Associates, and in complete transparency, there wasn’t supposed to be additional CreatorCon’s. The initial one was because we were having trouble attracting new communities and getting engagement and the first event went really well and it kind of gave us a small window into what was about to happen over the next several years.” Collins says that he and his team “made a commitment to help build a platform here in Detroit that will attract other businesses and brands here and see Detroit as an epicenter for incredible creators and incredible talent. And make it where our people didn’t have to leave, to go to other major cities, but those people would want to come and see what Detroit creators were all about.” For more information about CreatorCon or to purchase tickets, visit the website: creatorcondetroit.com/. You can reach Biba at Biba.Adams@ MIChronicle.com.

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Three Reasons Detroit Voters Hit the Polls Tuesday By Sam Robinson SENIOR REPORTER

Detroit voters told Michigan Chronicle Tuesday heading in and out of polling places Tuesday, Election Day. While the national media focuses on the bitter divisions within the Democratic Party, voters in Detroit said they showed up to the polls to solve serious problems in their communities. Quality of education, healthcare and living costs were top of mind for Detroit voters who let their voice be heard at polling sites during Tuesday’s midterm election. Eastside resident Carl Tramel said outside of Bethany Lutheran Church the rising cost of living, whether it be healthcare costs, gas prices or groceries is making it harder to get by. Tramel said he thinks Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed is the best candidate to represent Detroiters. “Who has the best interest for these these kids coming through school?” Tramel said. “I’m leaning more toward (El-Sayed). He’s more relatable, his track record — I’m giving him a chance to try something new.” Detroit voter Joe Lupo said he typically splits his ticket, and voted for Mike Rogers, the Republican. “When I was a teenager, I watched on live on television as people ran screaming from socialism in Europe,” Lupo said. “Now we have all these people that grew up without, that were too young to remember that, or that were born after that, that think that socialism is this new thing.” Another voter outside Bethany Lutheran church Tuesday afternoon told Michigan Chronicle she also split her ticket to vote for El-Sayed and Republican governor nominee U.S. Rep. John James. Detroit’s Virginia Jackson said she was going to vote for Rogers until U.S. Rep. Haley Stevens betrayed the Democratic Party in a stunning endorsement of the Republican Senate candidate she ran to defeat. “When Haley Stevens did what she did, it changed my mind back to Abdul,” Jackson said. “You use the Black church to try to convince me that Rogers is the right one? Oh, no.” Jackson said her vote for James, the Republican, was difficult, but she knew she wasn’t voting for Democratic Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson. “I don’t think she’s as fair as people think she is,” Jackson said of Benson. Ashanae Washington, 24, makes Jeep bumpers at Magna International in Highland Park. She invited friends with her to vote at Bethany Lutheran on Detroit’s east side, only to learn she was registered at a different polling place. “I made sure I came out and voted today,” Washington said. “I just brought my friend in here, this is her precinct.” Washington said issues like housing affordability and the lack of fruitful job op-

portunities are the issues currently affecting her life. She voted for El-Sayed because she supports healthcare for all and the right for women to get abortions. “I feel like the way the job market is, it’s hard to get a job,” Washington said. “You get one and people make sure they keep it.” Jimmy Gardner Jr. a local rapper whose stage name is CallJimboFirst, told Michigan Chronicle he was motivated to vote in hopes that candidates he supported will bring more resources to Detroit schools. “We gotta focus on the babies, the next generation,” Gardner said. “The policies and the things we got going on today are going to affect them.” El-Sayed supporter Robert Johnson, 61, said he’s concerned about affordability and healthcare, but what’s most important to

him is “ending the tyranny and saving democracy.” “I’m disabled, so medical issues are huge to me,” Johnson said. “Having a doctor in the U.S. Senate? Yay.” Several voters who spoke to Michigan Chronicle Tuesday blamed President Donald Trump for the increase in gas prices as a result of the war in Iran. The president’s disapproval rating could boost turnout among Democrats, who cast more votes statewide in the primary election than Republicans. Nearly 1.5 million Michiganders cast votes in the Democratic primary, driving the party’s highest primary turnout in nearly five decades. About 1.49 million votes were cast in the Democratic gubernatorial contest compared to 929,172 in the Republican race Tuesday, Detroit Clerk Janice Winfrey told report-

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ers outside of Clippert Academy in Southwest Detroit Tuesday afternoon that the city still expects turnout around 40-45%. Officials said there are lots of young voters showing up at voting precincts for the first time. Detroit Council President James Tate shares story of a first-time voter at a precinct with his girlfriend. “She was beaming from ear to ear. I want to say that part of it was she played an influence.” One official working on the east side said there were 30-40 first time voters at the school he’s working. Each new voter received applause from workers inside the polling site. You can reach Sam at srobinson@ michronicle.com.

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Becoming the Ancestor You Needed By Miss AJ Williams Much of the healing we do happens without an audience. It happens in the conversations we finally find the courage to have, the ones we decide no longer need to happen, and the quiet moments when we recognize that the responses we learned to give are no longer the choices we want to make. And while we often begin this work believing we are simply trying to understand ourselves, the further we explore our experiences, the more we begin to recognize how much of what we carry was established long before we were born. The way we understand love, express our emotions, respond to conflict, or even determine what we believe we deserve can often be traced to the experiences of those who came before us. Not necessarily because they intended to pass down their fears, limitations, or unfulfilled desires, Miss AJ Williams but because they were navigating life through the understanding and circumstances available to them. I think about the generations of women who came before us. Our mothers, grandmothers, and the women whose names we may never know. Women who had desires beyond the responsibilities they carried, who imagined possibilities for themselves that their circumstances may not have allowed them to pursue. Women who made decisions about love, security, sacrifice, and survival that would eventually influence how we came to understand those same experiences. And when we begin examining our family histories through that perspective, we can develop a deeper understanding of the people whose lives shaped our own. We can acknowledge their humanity without romanticizing their suffering. We can appreciate what they provided while also recognizing what they may not have had the emotional capacity, knowledge, or freedom to give. This is an important part of generational healing. Learning to distinguish between what we inherited and what we genuinely believe. Recognizing the patterns we have repeated without questioning whether they reflect the lives we actually want to experience. Yet much of the conversation surrounding ancestral healing focuses on what happened before us. We examine the past, identify what needs to change, and work toward releasing what no longer serves us. But I wonder how often we consider that while we are healing from the experiences of our ancestors, we are also in the process of becoming someone else’s. And that changes the perspective of the work entirely. Because becoming an ancestor is not simply about having children or continuing a family bloodline. Our influence extends beyond biological relationships. It exists in the lives of the people we teach, the communities we contribute to, the relationships we nurture, and the examples we establish through the way we choose to live. Consider what it means for someone to witness you establish a boundary without feeling obligated to justify it. To see you pursue a life that reflects your desires rather than the expectations others have placed upon you. To experience a relationship with you where love does not require self-abandonment, emotional suppression, or the constant need to prove one’s worth. What you may consider a personal breakthrough could become someone else’s understanding of what is possible. And perhaps that is one of the most meaningful aspects of generational healing. The things we spend years learning to recognize, understand, and change may eventually become the very things another person never has to struggle to believe. They may grow up understanding that their emotions deserve acknowledgment, that their needs are worthy of consideration, or that their value is not determined by how much they sacrifice for others. Not because someone sat them down and explained the importance of healing, but because they experienced those truths through the people who came before them. Of course, this does not mean we are responsible for healing every generation that follows us. Nor should our personal transformation become another obligation that requires us to place everyone else’s well-being before our own. We deserve to experience the freedom, peace, and fulfillment we are working to create in our own lives. But I do believe there is something meaningful about recognizing that the choices we make today can influence possibilities we may never personally witness. We often think about legacy in terms of what we accomplish, what we accumulate, or whether our names will be remembered. Yet some of the most significant things we leave behind may never be associated with our names at all. They will exist in the beliefs someone no longer has to question, the emotional freedom someone feels entitled to experience, and the opportunities someone has the confidence to pursue because the people before them demonstrated that another way of living was possible. And maybe this is where our understanding

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Juan Atkins, Detroit Legend and the Godfather of Techno, Has Died By Biba Adams STAFF REPORTER & REPORT FOR AMERICA CORP MEMBER

The collective hearts of techno and house music fans skipped a beat Sunday morning, Nov. 1, as the death of Detroit music pioneer Juan Atkins became public. Dance music agency, Greensmith Artists confirmed to Resident Advisor that Atkins was found unresponsive in a hotel room in Mexico City on Oct. 31 prior to a planned performance at YuYu Cine Club and later pronounced dead after being taken to hospital. The 64-year-old music producer is credited as the first person to coin the phrase “techno” to describe the hard pounding electronic music that he and future collaborators Derrick May and Kevin Saunderson would later be defined by. Nicknamed The Belleville Three, Atkins, May, and Saunderson created synthesizer-driven arrangements, electronic percussion and futuristic production that was reminiscent of European sounds with the duo Cybotron. He and Richard Davis released “Alleys of Your Mind,” but achieved their first real hit with “Clear.” Atkins was instrumental in opening performing opportunities in Europe particularly the UK and Germany where techno immediately took hold. “I had a class called future studies, about the transition from an industrial society to a technological society,” Atkins told the Guardian in 2014. “I just applied a lot of those principles to my music-making.” Social media tributes have been pouring in since the announcement. Kevin Saunderson wrote on Instagram, “Heart-

breaking news today. My brother Juan Atkins has passed away.” He added, “Juan was the originator of Techno, a true visionary who opened the door for so many of us, myself included. I’ll never forget how he showed me how to finish my first record, Triangle of Love. That meant a lot to me then, and it still does today. We shared a journey that changed music forever, and I’ll always be grateful for his friendship, guidance and everything he gave to our scene.” With the leadership of the Belleville Three, techno music became synonymous with Detroit spawning the world’s largest electronic music festival. Detroit Mayor Mary Sheffield released a statement on Atkins’ passing, saying, “Alongside his friends Derrick May and Kevin Saunderson, Juan took a sound born in Detroit basements and bedrooms and carried it to clubs and festivals on every continent. Today, millions of people dance to music that traces back to him and to our city. That is a Detroit story: genius, grit, and invention, from neighborhoods the world too often overlooked. Juan never stopped creating. He kept recording, touring, and pushing the music forward for more than four decades. Just as important, he opened doors for generations of Detroit artists who followed him.” The mayor added: “On behalf of the City of Detroit, I extend my deepest condolences to Juan’s family, friends, and collaborators, and to music lovers everywhere who are mourning him tonight. Detroit will honor his memory, and his music will keep moving us forward.” You can reach Biba at Biba.Adams@MIChronicle.com

Detroit Named America’s Most Viral City in Tripscout’s Inaugural ‘Best Cities’ Awards By Jeremy Allen EXECUTIVE EDITOR

Detroit is earning national attention for the way the world engages with its story online. The Motor City has secured the No. 1 position in Tripscout’s first-ever Best Cities Awards, receiving recognition as the United States’ most viral city based on social media performance. The recognition celebrates Detroit’s cultural identity, musical heritage, vibrant arts community, automotive legacy and thriving food scene, often told through the eyes of visitors and content creators across the city. It also highlights the growing role social media plays in shaping how people discover destinations, explore local cultures and make travel decisions. According to Tripscout, the awards are powered entirely by its proprietary Social IQ data engine, which tracks engagement performance across posts

from destinations around the world. The rankings are based on social media performance during the 2026 calendar year to date. It’s crucial to note that the designation is not the result of a public voting

campaign, an editorial selection process or a panel of judges. There are no votes, editorial picks or expert panels involved. The recognition isn’t based on a pay-toplay arrangement. The ranking is determined strictly through measurable social media engagement data. That methodology focuses on how audiences interact with destination content across social platforms instead of on subjective opinions or manufactured popularity metrics. For Detroit leaders, the recognition speaks to the city’s ability to connect with audiences through its distinctive character and the stories that continue to emerge from its neighborhoods, cultural institutions, businesses and creative communities. Mayor Mary Sheffield making history, the Charles H. Wright’s social media explosion, the announcement of the

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Detroit Named America’s Most Viral City 2027 Final Four, the city’s first Creator’s Weekend, the attention-getting political races and the cities sports teams have all played big parts in the city’s viral moments in 2026. Detroit’s musical influence remains a defining part of its global identity. From Motown’s historic contributions to American music to the city’s longstanding influence on techno, hiphop, jazz and other musical traditions, Detroit has cultivated a cultural legacy that continues to inspire artists and audiences around the

world. Festivals and Its creative identity also extends into visual arts, architecture, fashion and public culture. Institutions, independent galleries, community-based art initiatives and cultural events contribute to the city’s ongoing creative expression. Meanwhile, Detroit’s culinary landscape continues to tell its own story, bringing together longstanding food traditions, neighborhood establishments, innovative restaurants and the culinary influences of its diverse communities.

The city’s automotive history is another essential part of its identity. As the historic center of America’s automobile industry, Detroit’s industrial legacy remains woven into its architecture, workforce, institutions and cultural consciousness. Travelers also regularly turn to digital platforms to discover destinations, research experiences and find recommendations through content shared by tourism organizations, businesses, residents and visitors. The awards acknowl-

edge destination marketing organizations that have developed strong, consistent relationships with online audiences. Visit Detroit said on social media that the recognition highlights the value of maintaining an active digital presence and sharing the many dimensions of the region’s identity with people around the world. Being named the nation’s most viral city is ultimately a recognition rooted in measurable audience engagement. It places Detroit’s digital visibility into a broader conversation about how destinations build relationships with travelers in an increasingly connected world. Visit Detroit summed it up this way: “From our iconic music and architecture to our art, fashion, food and so much more, Detroit has always shaped culture far beyond our city

limits. And behind it all are the people of Detroit, from generations of artists and musicians to the small busi-

Becoming the Ancestor You Needed From page B-1 of ancestral healing begins to evolve. We can spend so much of our lives looking backward, trying to understand the people who shaped us and wishing someone had possessed the awareness, emotional capacity, or courage to offer us what we needed. But what if part of our purpose is not simply to make peace with what we did not receive? What if, through the very process of learning to honor our own emotional needs, trust our inner knowing, and live more authentically, we are becoming the people we once needed someone else to be? Not because we were destined to carry

the responsibility of repairing the past, but because we finally recognize that our lives have the capacity to create something different. Perhaps becoming the ancestor you needed begins with recognizing that the life you are learning to give yourself may become the permission someone else never has to ask for. AJ Williams is a Spiritual Wellness Architect and Educator and the Managing Editor of the Michigan Chronicle. A thought leader at the intersection of spirituality, astrology, psychology, and identity evolution, she is the founder of Sunday Communion, a quarterly live transformation experience held in Detroit. The Inner Architecture is her editorial column on the work of becoming.

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Ex-NFL Player Jon Vaughn: ‘Who Protects Us from Our Protectors?’ By Jon Vaughn CONTRIBUTOR

I ended my last piece with a question, and I want to be honest about why I asked it. I did not pose it as a rhetorical flourish. I asked it because survivors have asked it of me, on the phone, late at night, after discovering what had been done with their names, their stories or their trust by people who said they were on their side. I asked it because I have had to ask it myself, about a room I walked into carrying evidence and walked out of as the problem. Who do I go to? Too often the true answer was: right now, nobody. That is not an accident. It is a design. We built our protectors the way the institutions built theirs. Every institution I have ever fought had the same shape. Power sat with one office. The people around that office owed their positions to it. Complaints traveled through the very desk they were complaining about. When something went wrong, the first instinct was not to fix it but to contain it. Look closely at much of the advocacy world and you will see the same architecture, drawn smaller. A founder who is the organization. A board assembled from the founder’s circle. A reporting process, if one exists at all, that begins and ends in the founder’s inbox. No one whose job it is to say no, and no one a survivor can reach who does not answer to the person they need to report. We did not do this out of malice. We did it out of urgency. Governance is slow and the need is not. But the result is that the movement built to hold institutions accountable has, in too many places, exempted itself from the one thing it demands of everyone else. The law is not coming. A nonprofit answers to its board, and if the board is captured, it answers to no one. Funders rarely audit anything but the finances. Reporters treat advocates as sources, not subjects. The people with the most direct knowledge of harm inside an organization are the ones with the most to lose by speaking. So, when a survivor asks who protects them from their protectors, the honest answer is that no one will unless we build it. Here is what I believe that looks like. A door that does not run through the founder. Every organization that serves survivors should have a way to report harm that the leadership cannot see first. An independent intake. An outside ombudsman. A board member whose only role is to receive concerns and whose seat does not depend on

the founder’s goodwill. If the movement cannot manage what it has forced institutions to build, it should ask itself why. A board that can actually say no. A board of friends is not a board. It is an audience. Real oversight means people who did not arrive through the founder, who serve fixed terms, who have the standing and the independence to disagree in public and the authority to act on evidence rather than manage it. If the founder can remove the people meant to check the founder, there is no check. Survivors own their names and their stories, in writing. No survivor’s name, face or account should appear in any material a website, a grant application, a presentation, a film without their written consent, given for that use, and revocable. This should be policy, not courtesy. The account of what was done to a person is the one thing that was never taken from them. An organization that treats it as inventory has already told you what it thinks survivors are for. Sunlight on the money. Who is paid, how much, and for what. Who profits when a survivor’s story raises funds. What happens to a settlement, a speaking fee, a book advance that arrives

because someone else was brave. These are not rude questions. They are the questions any donor would ask of a company. An organization with nothing to hide should welcome them, and an organization that does not welcome them has answered you. Protection for the person who raises the alarm. This is the one that matters most and gets built last. When someone inside an organization brings forward evidence of harm, the response tells you everything. A healthy organization investigates the evidence. A captured one investigates the messenger. Every organization in this space should commit, publicly and in writing, that people who raise concerns in good faith will not be retaliated against, discredited or quietly pushed out and it should be able to point to at least one time it kept that promise. I know what it costs to be that person. I know what arrives instead of an answer: the silence, the lawyers, the invitation to a private conversation, the stories that begin to circulate about your character and your motives. I know that when the person raising the alarm is Black, the cost is paid at a higher rate. None of that changed the evidence. It only changed who was willing to

look at it. Who Enforces This The enforcement has to come from three places. Funders, who should make governance a condition of money the way they make outcomes a condition of money. Ask to see the reporting line. Ask who sits on the board and how they got there. Ask what happened the last time someone raised a concern. If the answers are vague, the money should be too. The press, and especially the Black press, which has always understood that the people who claim to speak for a community must be held to the community’s standard. Advocates should welcome scrutiny. The ones who do not are telling you something. And us. Survivors, families, the communities that extend their trust because someone finally said “we believe you.” That trust is ours to give and ours to withhold. We are allowed to ask questions before we hand over our names. We are allowed to say no. And we are allowed to say, out loud, when the people who promised to protect us have not. The Whole Answer I stood outside a president’s house for more than a hundred days because an institution decided its reputation was worth more than the people it hurt. I did not do that so our own movement could quietly make the same bargain. I have spent thirty years asking institutions to do the one thing institutions are built not to do, which is to look squarely at the harm they caused and name the people who allowed it, and I have watched what it takes to move them even an inch, the years, the lawyers, the reporters who stopped returning calls, the survivors who did not live long enough to hear the apology. Who protects us from our protectors? We do. That is the whole answer. It is an uncomfortable one, because it means the work does not end when the institution finally admits what it did. It means we hold ourselves to the standard we spent decades demanding of everyone else. It is the only standard that was ever going to keep anyone safe. Jon Vaughn is a former NFL running back, a survivor advocate for more than thirty years, and co-author of Co-Pay (ABA Publishing, 2027). This is the third piece in the series Weaponized Advocacy. On Sunday, November 1, at 8 p.m. Eastern, campuses across the country and overseas held Take Back the Night in the same hour. If you have a loved one on a campus anywhere, send them this. One student standing alone counts the same as a rally. takebackthenight. org/national-campus-tbtn-rally/

MOCAD Marks 20 Years with Exhibition Celebrating Detroit’s Artistic Legacy By Miss AJ Williams The Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit (MOCAD) is celebrating two decades of art and cultural expression with a four-part exhibition featuring more than 80 artists whose work has helped shape the museum and Detroit’s creative community. “20 Years of MOCAD: A Practice of Multiplicity” explores the museum’s history through painting, sculpture, sound, installations and other artistic forms. The exhibition brings together Detroit artists and nationally recognized names while examining how contemporary art reflects cultural identity, social change and community history. Since opening in 2006, MOCAD has served as a space for artists to challenge traditional approaches to art and engage audiences through experimental work. “Twenty years is a significant milestone for MOCAD. This moment celebrates the Museum’s cultural legacy and its impact across the communities we serve,” said Marie Madison-Patton, the museum’s co-director and chief operating officer. “This anniversary allows us to celebrate our history while also thinking about what we want MOCAD to be for the next twenty years.”

The exhibition’s four sections examine the relationship between artists, their creative processes and the communities that influence their work. “Process Driven,” which opened Sept. 9 at Mike Kelley’s Mobile Homestead, features experimental sound installations by Apetechnology, Ben Hall, Vanessa Reynolds and Sterling Toles. The presentation continues through March 21, 2027. The remaining three sections open Nov. 4 and run through April 4, 2027. “Artist as Architect” examines how artists shape creative spaces and cultural experiences. Featured artists include Detroit’s Olayami Dabls, Matthew Angelo Harrison and Gilda Snowden, alongside Mike Kelley,

Danielle Dean and Kennedy Yanko. “Detroit as Material” places the city at the center of artistic expression, exploring how its neighborhoods, history and social experiences influence creative work. Participating artists include Judy Bowman, Sydney James, Charles McGee, Allie McGhee, Sabrina Nelson, Shirley Woodson and Scott Hocking. The section highlights Detroit’s role in shaping generations of artists whose work captures the city’s cultural identity and changing communities. The final section, “A Practice of Multiplicity,” examines how artists interpret history, identity and social issues. Its roster includes Sanford Biggers, Tyree Guyton,

Arthur Jafa, Rashid Johnson, Titus Kaphar, Glenn Ligon, Mickalene Thomas, Hank Willis Thomas and Kara Walker. The museum will also extend the exhibition outdoors with new installations by Dabls and Metabolic Studio. Dabls’ “Sankofa” mural and Metabolic Studio’s “Artists Need to Create on the Same Scale That Society Has the Capacity to Destroy” will transform the museum’s exterior into another space for public art. “MOCAD has never been a fixed idea. For twenty years, artists have challenged us to reconsider what a museum can be, how it can respond to its city, create space for experimentation, and build meaningful relationships across communities,” said Jova Lynne, MOCAD’s co-director and artistic director. The anniversary exhibition offers a look at the artists who have influenced MOCAD’s first 20 years while raising questions about the museum’s future and its relationship with Detroit’s creative community. “20 Years of MOCAD: A Practice of Multiplicity” runs through April 4, 2027, with the sound exhibition continuing through March 21. MOCAD is located at 4454 Woodward Ave. in Detroit. For more information, visit mocadetroit.org.

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Going on (and on) the record with Detroit’s own Donnie Simpson, who still knows how to keep us talking By Aaron Foley It’s a late Friday evening in the DMV, and Donnie Simpson is at home reciting a Ice-T verse word-for-word over the phone to a journalist in his hometown of Detroit while also trying to remember where his grandson’s next hockey game is being played. The two parties here could be doing literally anything else on a Friday night, including but not limited to listening to quiet storm radio in either the D or D.C. – but more on that, and a few other topics, later. Instead, Simpson is waxing nostalgic about his beginnings working in his parents’ record shop on Six Mile back in the day, nurturing the next generation of Simpson grandkids (there are six) right now, and what to do with all these memories from the years between. “It’s funny, man. I feel like all my life, all my career…. people have been trying to urge me to write a book since I was 19 in Detroit,” says Simpson, who as of late has something of a third career as a keeper of history after two careers making it. Simpson was originally brought to this conversation for more sympathetic purposes. On September 30, longtime Michigan Chronicle entertainment editor Steve Holsey passed away, prompting an outpour of memories and gratitude from many of the subjects who’d first earned ink in this publication by way of him – including Simpson, who was championed by Holsey from the beginning when he was a teenager spinning records on WJLB, throughout his professional radio career in Washington D.C. and beyond as he moved into syndication, and his subsequent move into television, most notably as one of the first hosts on the then-new Black Entertainment Television cable network. But of course, Simpson couldn’t have come this far and still be here by being a man of few words. Holsey often wrote in his column to “come and get these memories,” borrowing a lyric from Martha and the Vandellas. Here’s enough memories to fill the entire State Fairgrounds. This conversation has been edited and condensed for clarity. AF: I’ve been asking friends and colleagues of Steve to just give me their first impression of him, or when they first met him. What do you remember most? DS: Steve was very, very cool. I just liked him so much, and he was very kind to me. I mean, he always did his job, but you know…I’ve always been very fortunate that I never had any bad press. Thank God. I mean, never. And that goes way back to the beginning in Detroit. And the first press I ever got was from Steve Holsey and the Michigan Chronicle. You know, that was so important to me. To this day, it is. The most important. AF: Did it have any more impact on you coming from the Black newspaper? DS: Well, let me tell you like this. I remember having this conversation with Frankie Beverly one night. And I said, “Frankie, I would never speak for you, but on this particular issue, I think you would agree with this. But I want to say it, and that is this: You and I are similar in this regard -- In Black America, they have this love for us, man. We’re so blessed, it’s just amazing. But white America doesn’t really know us, you know?” I sit here now, and I would love to have the other. But I can die 100 percent happy without it just knowing that my people felt that way about me. Frankie said, “100 percent, man. 100 percent.” So, that’s how I feel about the support that I got from Steve and the Michigan Chronicle. You know, that was ours. And that nothing could ever surpass that to me. To know that my people supported me like that, man. That Steve supported me like that. You know, from the beginning, always supported me. And I just…I just never forgot it. Just never forget it. It still means the world to me. You know, I’ve gotten press all around the world now, but nothing was important to me as those early pieces from Steve Holsey in the Michigan Chronicle. Nothing. It just doesn’t compare. AF: There’s something to be said about that late-1960s, early-1970s era in which you and Steve both started your careers. It seems like there was an entire generation of Black men all coming to prominence in various forms of entertainment media – Don Cornelius with “Soul Train” sort of being the nucleus of all this. DS: I definitely agree with that, but Steve was just important for our culture, for our entertainment in general, for Michigan. I mean, his position was huge to me. I mean, that’s where we got our ink. I was fortunate enough that the Detroit Free Press and the Detroit News would cover some things sometimes, but Steve was there for everything. You know? He was always there, just always. It’s like people always talk about TV, like back in the day when I was a kid, I remember running home because word would pass around school that [for example], the Temptations are going to be on Mike Douglas today. You know, one of those talk shows at 4 o’clock. Man, we’d be running home from school to see that, because we got such few chances to see us on TV. And so Steve and the Michigan Chronicle was something where we did get a chance to see ourselves, to see us in print. And that’s significant. AF: You were a teenager on the air at WJLB. Steve started writing for the Chronicle when he was 18. Most of Motown’s roster in the beginning was still in or barely out of high school. What was in the water back then that made Detroiters want to put themselves out there at that age? DS: Well, you know, I think it’s very simple. I don’t know if it’s so much courage or strength as it is God putting you in the position He wants you to be in. You know? I was just pushed. And I always said through people, I was always pushed where I needed to be. And that push, I have no doubt, came from above. When I was working in my mother’s record shop at 14, 15 years old and people would come in there and say, “You sound like a DJ, you ought to be a DJ”? It was in one ear, out the other ear. I wanted to be a Baptist minister; that was my first ambition. Then, you know, we had [WQBH deejay] Al Perkins come by my mother’s record shop and do a show live there one day and it was just, “Oh, my god!” When I went into that little booth and saw him patting his feet to the music with them headphones on, just jamming? I was like, man, I could do that. That’s exactly what I want to do right there. A career was born from that moment. But all those people had been telling me prior to that, “you ought to be a DJ.” And it happened. AF: And you carried that to TV? DS: When they would come see me do my show, now they’d say, “See, you ought to be on TV. You ought to be on TV.” There it went, you know? Eventually I was pushed there. I don’t view it so much as courage because I just view it as following God’s plan. It was just divine to me. Was this divine pushed me? That’s the way I look at it. AF: Something else I’ve just realized in talking with folks is that not only do you and Steve have these very long media careers, but that folks talk about Steve letting the work speak for itself – yet he’s still recognizable among readers. You’re a household name across Black America and we could readily say the same about your work. I’m wondering how have you been able to keep your name out there, but do it in such a way that we know your name just as much as the celebrities you interview, but not outshine the celebrities themselves? DS: Oh, I ain’t never above anybody, you know. Man, please. [Laughs.] That is such a great, great question, by the way – I’m not sure I’ve ever been asked that, man. I really

appreciate this question. Because for me…wow, how can I address this? You know what? I’m going to go back to something I learned, and it was from Johnny Carson. But it was via Jack Benny. And it’s just something I saw Johnny talking about that he learned once. It’s like you, if you look at a lot of the talk show hosts today, it’s almost like they use their guests to set up themselves. AF: Mm-hmm. DS: Johnny said that Jack Benny once told him that it doesn’t matter who has the line, it only matters that it’s on your show. Because tomorrow, all they’re going to say is, “did you see Jack Benny last night?” And that’s true. And I never forgot that, man. That was so important to me. And you look, if you look at Johnny, who is the ultimate host to me – there’s never been anyone better -- when his guest came on there, he was a facilitator, man, it’s their time to shine. It’s not about you. It is time. You know, you are to set a stage and let them shine. You’re a facilitator. And that’s what I always felt. That’s what I always believe, man. It’s, you know, and again, that comes from a lesson well learned from the best, just from something that I saw him talk about one day. It was just amazing to me. And it’s amazing that you get to the point where the celebrities that you host come in and they’re freaking out because they’re in there with you. You know, it’s half a trip. It’s like, what? You know, I still can’t believe the reaction sometimes that people have to you. But that shine comes from being in their spotlight, to me. AF: Do you feel like – for lack of a better term – your favorite celebrity’s favorite celebrity? When I was inducted into the R&B Music Hall of Fame, man, I was so blown away. I never sung a song. I never played on one. I never wrote one. But they saw value in what I did. and decided to put me in the whole thing. I said, “you are the coolest people on earth, and for one night, you let me be in your group.” Now, I’m only in the group for one night. Temptations ain’t gonna keep me. I can’t sing. I’m just there for one night, you know. I’m not the light. I’m a recipient of it -- a reflection of light, if you will. AF: So I’m going through the Michigan Chronicle archives, and I noticed that every time Phyllis Hyman visited Detroit, she made it a point to visit the Chronicle newsroom. DS: Wow. AF: But seeing Phyllis’ name so much reminds me of the clip of when you’re interviewing Patti LaBelle on “Video Soul” and Phyllis surprises her mid-interview with a rose bouquet, to which Patti responds, “I’ll make you some chicken when I get home.” DS: Oh, really? I don’t even remember that, man. AF: You don’t remember that? That’s one of your most viral clips on YouTube. DS: No, not at all! That’s awesome! AF: But there’s a kind of comfort of knowing that only something like that could happen on “Video Soul,” or that Phyllis really felt at home in certain spaces in Detroit. And we talk about this a lot now in modern media, this idea of Black celebrities opening up more when they’re talking to us, even though this is not a new concept. I’m wondering what your thoughts are around this. DS: First of all, let me say this, that I’ve always said that, The greatest compliment I can get from a listener or a viewer is that “I feel like when I’m watching you, I feel like I’m sitting on the couch with you and Janet Jackson.” Like I’m in the living room with you. That’s the greatest compliment I can get from them. The greatest compliment I can get from a guest -- from a celebrity -- is “you made me feel comfortable.” There’s no greater compliment to me than that. Now, what makes them feel comfortable? One, that they know this is not gotcha television. I’m not going to try to stick you, I’m not going to try to put you in an uncomfortable position. If there is something that’s difficult that we have to talk about, I’m going to get into it, because I can’t make it look like I don’t know. We had that situation with Jodeci, as a matter of fact, when they were on the show. There were rape charges against a couple of them. Before the show, the producer came to me and said, “Donnie, we cannot talk to them about these rape charges.” Right before they come in, the manager comes in and says, “We can’t talk to them about the rape charges.” Then the group comes in. I go, “You know I got to talk to you about these rape charges, right?” They said, “yeah, come on man, let’s go.” Just like that. And we got into it. But the point of that is because, it speaks to what you’re talking about, that even in a difficult situation, they felt comfortable with me. I’m a music lover, man, and I’m a people lover. I just try to always be welcoming and kind. I just don’t know any other way. That’s what I do. That’s who I am. And I think people feel very comfortable when it’s ours -- like BET was ours, it belonging to Black America. That’s just like the Michigan Chronicle. It belongs to us. You know, it’s just like I said about the conversation with Frankie, that it just means something different when it’s your people. And I love all people. But I really love us. I’m trying to get too philosophical or anything, but I don’t even know if I’ve answered your question… AF: You’re giving me more than enough. And I don’t know how you feel, but I dislike “yes” and “no” questions – I’ll never ask a question where the responses could be just “yes” or “no,” but I don’t like getting one-word responses regardless of the question. DS: Being an interviewer myself, the toughest interviews are kids. Like when Stacy Lattisaw was 14, it was like talking to my grandkids – “how was school?” “Good.” You know that universal answer with kids? “Good.” I love being around them, though. To this day, I ask: “Who are you listening to? Tell me what you like.” I’m a deejay, man, I always want to know. AF: What are your grandkids listening to? Do you like what they like? A lot of times I do. I listen to a lot of stuff they do, like “yeah, I like that!” A lot of it is kind of the same to me

[laughs], but I hear a lot of good voices sometimes. I was with my granddaughter one day listening to somebody, and I said, “wow, she can sing, who’s that?” It was Ariana Grande. George Clinton told me 40 years ago, man, he said, “Donnie, keep yourself surrounded by young people. They keep you young.” It makes sense. I just always want to know what people like…and I never made the mistake of saying “they don’t make music like they used to.” I’ve never said that, because it’s true. They never make music like they used to, they never have and they never will. It’s always changing. So if you want to keep listening to your Temptations 8-track and your Rick James CD, then go ahead. It’ll move on without you. When people talk about, “oh I don’t listen to rap.” You mean, you don’t know Biggie’s flow?... AF: For me, I tell people that Biggie, and so many others, pulled from the catalogues of our artists here in Detroit or Michigan. DeBarge’s catalogue, Diana Ross’ catalogue… DS: For me, it was “Back on the Block,” Quincy Jones’ album. It’s like a Black music history lesson. Man, that thing was so heavy…matter of fact, we did a two-hour “Video Soul” special for that album, and we did it in Bel-Air where Quincy lived. Everybody was there, everybody that was on the album. I’m talking about Big Daddy Kane, Ice-T, Sarah Vaughan, Ella Fitzgerald, Take 6, 12-year-old Tevin Campbell, Barry White, everybody. But that album – L.A. Reid told me he had the same experience. I had it in my car, and I put it on expecting to hear classic, old Quincy, like “Gula Matari.” And the first thing I hear is Ice-T: “L.A., home of the body bag/You wanna die, wear the wrong color rag.” I’m like, “oh, my God!” It took me 40 minutes to listen to the first song. L.A. Reid said, “same thing.” But that’s what Quincy did – he embraced the new. AF: I have to ask you to choose a side since you’re a Detroiter who’s spent considerable time in the D.C. radio market. The term “quiet storm” – it was coined by a D.C. radio deejay, but it’s named after a song written and performed by a Detroit native. So who gets credit for, like, the entire concept of “quiet storm” – Detroit or D.C.? DS: Well, I mean, as a radio format, I have to give it to Melvin Lindsay and WHUR here in Washington, D.C. He came up with the idea of using it. Now of course, they use the song to introduce it. Smokey [Robinson] had it as a song title, but it was a song. It wasn’t a radio format. So, I have to give Melvin Lindsay that credit. I said that once talking with Cathy Hughes, who…I know I’m sure you know Cathy Hughes is. AF: From Radio One and TV One. DS: Right. But, at that time, before she owned all this stuff, she was, I think, general manager at WHUR, when Melvin kicked off his thing, and she called me to check me that, she came up with the title, and she came up with the concept. I didn’t say this to her at the time, and I wish I would have, because -- and I don’t care if she reads it or whatever, but because it’s the truth, you know? You can set the Mona Lisa in front of me. That don’t mean I can paint her. Melvin Lindsay painted those pictures every night. It’s not about the title. It’s the mood that it created. That was Melvin Lindsay. I’m telling you, brother. You didn’t even need a radio at night. Just open the window. That’s what you were gonna hear. It was the air. In DC. I’ve never seen anything like it, man. It was amazing what Melvin Lindsay did. AF: Melvin Lindsay is just one of those names a lot of us media nerds know or hear about not even growing up in their markets. I was very blessed to have been able to get him into the Radio Hall of Fame five years ago. And that was such a moment for me. It was a year after I went in, then they asked me to be a part of the nominating committee. At first, I didn’t want to do it because it’s just kind of not my thing, you know -- I just like to do my show and that’s it. But then I thought about what I’d said in my induction speech, which was that when I first found out I was going into the Radio Hall of Fame, I went online to their website – not looking for who was in there, but who was not in there. And who wasn’t in there was all of us who lived on the right hand side of the radio dial. When I didn’t see Frankie Crocker in there, and I don’t know if you know who that is… AF: From WBLS? Yes. DS: The New York legend, man. I mean, Frankie to me is just the greatest, man. And he wasn’t in there. And I said, if you don’t have Frankie Crocker in there, I feel like I shouldn’t be in there. I feel guilty. The next year we were able to put him in and several other Black members in the “legends” category. Last year, was able to get uh, brother named Shelley the Playboy Stewart in out of Birmingham, Alabama. You know, here’s a brother who’s 91 or 92 years old now, but he’s one of the original Black deejays in the country. Shelley down in Birmingham uses his station to make sure that the mic was always available to Dr. King. He would speak to his audience in code by saying certain things, or playing certain songs at certain times, to let them know where the meetings were that night. Because if the KKK or the sheriff -- which, of course, we know sometimes were one and the same -- knew, then it’s a problem. Shelly did that. I said to a committee member I was fighting with to get Shelley in – you can talk about me or Tom Joyner, or Howard Stern, or whoever you want to talk about. But in terms of impact, you can’t beat this man’s story. AF: Too many times there are these monumental Black figures that don’t get the honors they deserve, living or dead. But why do you take up this mantel of making sure that they do? DS: Let me try to explain using another homeboy. I was on a plane with Michael Jordan – his plane, not any plane. He had come to D.C. and had a party to go to, we played golf that day, and he asked when I was going home (to Florida), and I said the next day, and he said, “well come on, we’ll both go down and play some ball.” And all the way down there, we’re listening to K’Jon. And I wasn’t familiar with K’Jon. And Michael said, “man, you don’t know K’Jon? That’s your homeboy. He’s from Detroit.” I said, “really?”, he said, “man, I love K’Jon.” I was there a couple of days, but then I had to go back to Detroit – it was my mom’s 80th birthday, 17 years ago, I guess it was. So when I get home, I’m at the record shop, and I’m telling Mom this story. And I wish I could find K’Jon, I don’t know him, I don’t know where to find him. She said, “Baby, I know K’Jon, he comes in here all the time. I have his phone number.” And how cool is this, that my mom is still connected like that? She gives me his number and I call him, because I thought he would want to know Michael Jordan how felt about him. And of course it means the world to him … he says, “you just have no idea how much this call meant to me, man.” He says, “I was down today, because the Grammy nominations came out this morning, and I didn’t get a nomination.” I said, “K’Jon, let me tell you this: Marvin Gaye didn’t win a Grammy until ‘Sexual Healing.’ Not ‘What’s Going On?’, not ‘I Want You,’ none of that. That’s all you need to know about that. You don’t need that to validate you. Your people validate you.” That’s what I feel about what you’re talking about right now, that with Steve and the Michigan Chronicle, that you don’t need all those awards. Your people validate you. That’s where you get your validation. And you know what Steve and the Michigan Chronicle meant to us.

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NOTICE OF DEFAULT AND FORECLOSURE SALE WHEREAS, on 09/17/2009, a certain Mortgage was executed by KAREN I. MARTIN as Mortgagor, in favor of GENWORTH FINANCIAL HOME EQUITY ACCESS, INC., FORMERLY KNOWN AS LIBERTY REVERSE MORTGAGE, INC. as Mortgagee, and was recorded on 09/24/2009, in LIBER 48137, PAGE 513, in the Office the Recorder of Deeds, Wayne County, Michigan and WHEREAS, the Mortgage was insured by the UNITED STATES SECRETARY OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT (the SECRETARY) pursuant to the National Housing Act for the purpose of providing single family housing; and WHEREAS, the Mortgage is now owned by the SECRETARY, pursuant to an Assignment of Mortgage dated 08/04/2023, and recorded on 08/14/2023, in LIBER 58404, PAGE 200, in the Office of the Wayne County Recorder of Deeds, Michigan and a default exists; and WHEREAS, a default has been made in the covenants and conditions of the Mortgage in that the payment due on 05/18/2026 was not made and remains wholly unpaid as of the date of this notice, and no payment has been made sufficient to restore the loan to currency; and WHEREAS, by virtue of this default, the SECRETARY has declared the entire amount of this indebtedness secured by the Mortgage to be immediately due and payable; NOW THEREFORE, pursuant to the powers vested in me by the Single Family Mortgage Foreclosure Act of 1994, 12 U.S.C. 3751 et seq., by 24 CFR Part 27, subpart B, and by the SECRETARY’S designation of me as Foreclosure Commissioner, dated September 15, 2016, notice is hereby given that on 11/23/2026 at 11:30 AM local time, all real and personal property at or used in connection with the following described premises located at (“Property”), will be sold at public auction to the highest bidder. P.I.N.: 79-007-03-0007-000 PROPERTY ADDRESS: 18864 LEXINGTON, REDFORD, MI 48240 LEGAL DESCRIPTION: LOT 7, PRACTICAL SUBDIVISION, ACCORDING TO THE PLAT THEREOF, AS RECORDED IN LIBER 76, PAGES 47, 48 AND 49 OF PLATS, WAYNE COUNTY RECORDS The sale will be conducted online on Zoom at: Meeting ID: 648 483 3997; Password: 743891. There is a Zoom call-in option at 312-626-6799. THE SECRETARY OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT will bid $125,847.92 plus per diem interest, advances, fees and costs. There will be no proration of taxes, rents or other income or liabilities, except that the purchaser will pay, at or before sale, his prorata share of any real estate taxes that have been paid by the Secretary to the date of the foreclosure sale. The Special Commissioner shall accept advance, sealed written bids at Pleadings@Nevellaw.com. The successful bidder, except the SECRETARY, must submit a deposit totaling at least 10% of the bid in the form of a certified check or cashier’s check made out to the SECRETARY OF HUD at the close of bidding sent to the Special Commissioner at the address below by express mail next-day delivery. The deposit is non-refundable. The remainder of the purchase price must be delivered within thirty (30) days of the Sale or at such other time as the SECRETARY may determine for good cause shown, time being of the essence. This amount, like the bid deposits, must be delivered in the form of a certified check or cashier’s check made payable to the SECRETARY OF HUD. If the SECRETARY is the high bidder, he need not pay the bid amount in cash. The successful bidder will pay all conveyancing fees, all real estate taxes and other taxes that are due on or after the date of sale and all other transfer taxes and State, County and Municipal costs associated with the transfer of title. There is no right of redemption, or right of possession based upon a right of redemption, in the mortgagor or others subsequent to a foreclosure completed pursuant to the Act. Therefore, the Foreclosure Commissioner will issue a Deed to the purchaser(s) upon receipt of the entire purchase price in accordance with the terms of the sale as provided herein. HUD does not guarantee that the property will be vacant. IRA T. NEVEL Foreclosure Commissioner for the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development 175 North Franklin, Suite 201 Chicago, Illinois 60606 (312) 357-1125

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Positions offered by Ford Motor Company (Dearborn, Michigan). Note, this is a hybrid position whereby the employee will work both from home and from the aforementioned worksite. Hence, the employee must live within a reasonable commuting distance from the worksite. Conduct software development to generate, test, and calibrate Advance Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS) features. Domestic and International Travel Required up to 5%. EOE. Apply online: careers.ford.com CPS – Systems Developer Positions offered by Ford Motor Company (Dearborn, Michigan). Note, this is a hybrid position whereby the employee will work both from home and from the aforementioned worksite. Hence, the employee must live within a reasonable commuting distance from the worksite. Design and build cloud-native solutions on the GCP public cloud to improve software deployment, scalability, and operational ANNOUNCEMENTS efficiency. EOE. Apply online: careers.ford.com

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Positions offered by Ford Motor Company (Allen Park, Michigan). Note, this is a hybrid position whereby the employee will work both from home and from the aforementioned worksite. Hence, the employee must live within a reasonable commuting distance from the worksite. Lead a team of Embedded Software and automation developers. Domestic Travel Required up to 10%. EOE. Apply online: careers.ford.com

New Research Identifies the Next Wave of Home Painting Projects (StatePoint) The next painting project may not be another four walls. From colorful trim to bold built-ins and overlooked spaces, homeowners are finding more ways to use paint to personalize their homes. The 2027 FrogTape Paint Project Index examines what homeowners have already painted and what they plan to tackle in the next 12 months. The research shows that traditional projects have staying power. More than half of homeowners (57%) have already created a traditional accent wall, and 49% have painted a ceiling. Looking ahead: Colorful or contrasting trim and doors top the project list at 54%, followed by small spaces (42%), single-wall accent walls (40%) and cabinets or built-ins (37%). According to the research, these are the top painting projects planned for 2027: Trim Takes Center Stage Trim is the only paint project where planned interest (54%) exceeds past adoption (45%), reflecting the appeal of a small change with a high impact. Among homeowners who have painted architectural details, 31% say it refreshes a room’s energy without the time or expense of painting all four walls, and 22% say it revives worn, dated trim or plain doors without replacing them. DIYers are doing their homework, too: 36% say trim and architectural details are the project they’ve researched most. Small Spaces, Big Statement Some of the boldest ambitions are in the smallest rooms. Nearly half (42%) plan to transform a small or often-overlooked space, such as a powder room or laundry room, with bold paint in the next year. Among those interested, 60% say bold paint turns a purely functional room into a high-impact design feature, and 55% say color makes everyday tasks like laundry or meal prep more enjoyable. Only 4% of those considering these spaces prefer to keep them neutral. The Accent Wall Evolves Focal points are the most established trend in the Index, yet the data suggests the classic statement wall is no longer the only space people are putting color. Nearly half (49%) have already painted a ceiling, and 27% plan to paint a ceiling in a bold, contrasting or unexpected color in the next 12 months. Among those embracing non-white ceilings, half have gone bold with color or pattern, and 58% say the motivation behind the look was adding character and a personalized touch to an otherwise plain room.

System Integration Engineer - Body Controls Cabinets and Built-Ins Get a Color Refresh Positions offered by Ford Motor Paint is also giving homeowners a way to change the look of a kitchen or built-in storage without Company (Dearborn, Michigan). Note, taking on a full renovation. this is a hybrid position whereby the employee will work both from home and Nearly half (45%) have already painted cabinets, built-ins or shelving, and 37% plan to, with 43% from the aforementioned worksite. saying their mindset is personalizing their space and trying creative ideas, and 25% wanting to Hence, the employee must live within a save money compared with hiring|a contractor. michiganchronicle.com October 19-25, 2022 | Page B-5 reasonable commuting distance from the worksite. Design and implement Technique is Trending scalable software architectures in As homeowners move beyond familiar projects, crisp lines and precision are becoming ANNOUNCEMENTS ANNOUNCEMENTS Embedded C for bare-metal systems increasingly important. Painter’s tape is a must-have part of the process, with 97% saying they and RTOS-based environments. used or plan to use it for a recent or upcoming DIY project. Sixty-six percent use it on almost every Domestic Travel Required up to 10%. EOE. Apply online: careers.ford.com project requiring clean lines or multiple colors.

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