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04/05/17Dancer Jennifer Harge explores black women's emotions in new projectContemporary dancer Jennifer Harge’s body of work encompasses movement, performance art and black culture. Through her collective Harge Dance Stories, she explores the stories surrounding black bodies. Her newest venture, the (Her)stor(ies) Project, is a performance piece she and four other dancers began working on through a research grant at The Carr Center. The project has evolved into an evening-length dance performance exploring how grief, pleasure and protest impact black women. “I was thinking about how I was handling grief and whose grief I was holding onto. People who I felt connected to through being black,” Harge says. “I was thinking how black women historically have had to handle grief, and whose grief they were responsible for.” The... |
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04/05/17Sharon Madison on her family's early Detroit real estate bet - and how it's paying offSharon Madison and her family bet big on downtown Detroit when few others would. Now the building that bears her father’s name is reaping the dividends. |
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04/05/17Kerrie Trahan, Founder of Yoganic FlowUsing yoga as a tool, this company aims to get Detroiters healthy – both physically and spiritually. |
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04/05/17Davontae Sanford: Innocence without a doubtAlmost a year after being imprisoned for four murders he didn’t commit, Davontae Sanford is making sure others don’t suffer the same fate. |
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04/05/17Robin Givhan finds the political side of fashionAs a fashion critic for the Washington Post - and a Detroit native - Robin Givhan explores the politics of fashion |
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04/05/17Dealing with grief in your teenage yearsThe bereavement process eventually strikes us all, but coping with grief in your teenage years can seem like a monumental challenge. |
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04/05/17Figure Skating in Detroit hopes to encourage girls to stay sharpThrough academics and leadership training, this program is the new cool. |
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04/05/17Easter production engages Detroit's young aspiring actors"He's Alive" will be staged April 15 at Soul Harvest Ministries |
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04/05/17Vinyl's big comebackThe current vinyl boom builds up the market for vintage record players |
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04/05/17SEEN Photo Gallery: Classical Roots at the Max M. Fisher Music CenterThe Detroit Symphony Orchestra’s 39th annual Classical Roots Celebration honored violinist Regina Carter and trumpeter Terence Blanchard on March 3 in Detroit. |
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Featured blogger Dion Rabouin is a freelance journalist whose writing has been published in The Hollywood Reporter, Huffington Post, LA Daily News, AllBusiness.com, The Atlanta Voice and many others.
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