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Are the most dangerous neighborhoods in Detroit?

Kunbi Tinuoye
theGRIO REPORT - Detroit has the unenviable position of having the most dangerous neighborhoods in the nation, according to a study published this week...
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Colion Noir, the NRA’s ‘urban gun enthusiast,’ is off target

Jonathan M. Metzl
OPINION - Noir’s position that African-Americans should then embrace a continued proliferation of assault weapons rather than support legislation that could only reduce guns on the street is baffling...
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Which budget cuts are killing our communities?

Trymaine Lee, NBC News
NBC NEWS - For cities and rural towns across the country, as well as nonprofits like Baltimore Reads, officials are struggling to maintain programs offered to low- and moderate-income residents...
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man bicycles past a lot, vacated years ago when a long-established business failed, March 3, 2009 in Compton, California. (Photo by David McNew/Getty Images)

Compton poised to become next bankrupt US city

Caryn Freeman
theGRIO REPORT - Compton, California, a city just outside of Los Angeles may be the third city in the state to file bankruptcy...
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Detroit Mayor Dave Bing talks during an interview with the Associated Press in Detroit, Thursday, June 14, 2012. Bing says the Motor City is in the late portion of its comeback effort, down double digits and he has the ball. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)

Detroit mayor Dave Bing frustrated over delays

Corey Williams, Associated Press
DETROIT (AP) - Detroit Mayor Dave Bing lashed out Thursday against 'people with personal agendas' he blames for stalling his efforts to pull the city from the brink of financial collapse...
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Detroit may go broke by June 15

Jay Scott Smith
theGRIO REPORT - The city of Detroit will run out of money by June 15 if a lawsuit challenging the validity of the consent agreement the city signed with the state of Michigan in April is not withdrawn...
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Lights out! Why half of Detroit could go dark

Jay Scott Smith
theGRIO REPORT - The news was met with exasperation, shock, and disbelief last week as Detroit Mayor Dave Bing announced a plan to eliminate nearly half of the city’s streetlights in an effort to move people to more densely populated areas of the city...
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Detroit mayor Dave Bing hospitalized

Jay Scott Smith
theGRIO REPORT - Detroit Mayor Dave Bing had surgery Saturday to repair a perforation of the intestines. He is expected to remain in hospitalized for the next five to seven days...
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National rate of HIV is higher for black women

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In Baltimore, and five other cities in the U.S., African American women are becoming infected with HIV much more than any other race...
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Chicago activists highlight housing segregation in city

Jay Scott Smith
theGRIO REPORT - A recent study examined the racial makeup of American neighborhoods and proclaimed the decline in segregation nationwide. For two housing advocates in Chicago, this study could not have been further from the truth...
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