Ex-Detroit mayor aide pleads guilty to corruption
DETROIT (AP) - Prosecutors say Derrick Miller admitted Monday that he accepted $115,000 from a real estate broker in connection with the lease or sale of city properties...
Will blacks who backed Obama stay home in 2012?
theGRIO REPORT - The biggest problem the president is facing is not whether people will switch sides. It's whether people will turnout for him again...
Obama says Congress must pass job program
DETROIT (AP) - Obama said that with widespread suffering, "the time for Washington games is over" and lawmakers must move quickly to create jobs...
Obama to spend Labor Day at union rally in Detroit
WASHINGTON (AP) - Obama's speech at an annual event sponsored by the Metropolitan Detroit AFL-CIO was serving as a dress rehearsal for the jobs address he'll deliver to a joint session of Congress on Thursday night...
Queen of Soul to warm up for Obama in Detroit
DETROIT (AP) - President Barack Obama will have a royal warm-up act when he comes to Detroit to speak during the city's annual Labor Day festivities.
Motown figure Esther Gordy Edwards dies at age 91
DETROIT (AP) - Edwards died Wednesday surrounded by family and friends in Detroit, the Motown Historical Museum said in a statement...
Detroit cops, citizens team up to change city's image
OPINION - For there to be any chance for us, or any urban area with a violent history, to shake this, there needs to be cooperation between the authorities and the citizens...
Detroit offers free homes to police officers
VIDEO - It's reported that more than 50 percent of U.S. police officers live outside of the cities they served....
Waters to black voters: 'unleash us' on Obama
OPINION - Sparks flew during the Congressional Black Caucus "For the People Jobs Tour" town hall in Detroit, MI, when the reality of people's present condition overwhelmed decorum and order...
Detroit school issues deeper than education
From TheGRIO -- Just 3 percent of Detroit's fourth graders and 4 percent of eighth graders meet national math standards. The often-disputed high school graduation rate was as low as 25 percent in 2007, by far the worst in the country...
