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If you aren’t one of the countless people who’ve seen, listened to, and obsessed over Hamilton, you've probably at least heard of it.Lin-Manuel Miranda's…
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Update, February 1, 2019, 10:26 a.m.:Deadline Detroit reported Thursday that Dearborn Mayor Jack O'Reilly, who refused to send out the issue of The…
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Gay rights, Roe v. Wade, climate change and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). These are just a few of the references…
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This past Saturday was the 154th birthday of Nellie Bly, one of the first (if not the first) American investigative journalists.Her willingness to be…
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Imagine going to the dentist and needing a filling, but there’s nothing to numb you up. There’s no novocaine. Just drilling.Thankfully, we have local…
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For six years now, the Detroit Unity Temple has held a quilt exhibit in February. Many of the quilts – but not all – are tributes to African-American…
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This week marks the 196th birthday of someone who occupies a place of dishonor in the annals of science. Sir Francis Galton was born this week in 1822. He…
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156 years ago this day, a husband died.His grieving wife wore black from that day until her own death 40 years later.That is the story of Britain's Queen…
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There are accepted historical “facts” which do not hold up to closer scrutiny. One of those is that slavery was something that happened in the South, not…
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A chirpy, cheery jingle from the 1960s was part of a massive advertising effort that helped Kellogg’s Corn Flakes become amazingly popular. “Kellogg’s…