In the summer of 1967, rioting and civil unrest starts to tear apart the city of Detroit. Two days later, a report of gunshots prompts the Detroit Police Department, the Michigan State Police and the Michigan Army National Guard to search and seize an annex of the nearby Algiers Motel. ...
In the summer of 1967, rioting and civil unrest starts to tear apart the city of Detroit. Two days later, a report of gunshots prompts the Detroit Police Department, the Michigan State Police and the Michigan Army National Guard to search and seize an annex of the nearby Algiers Motel. ...
Less publi- cized was the contemporaneous trial of Officer Joseph Weekley in Michigan for the death of Aiyana Stanley-Jones, a seven-year-old black girl who was shot dead as she lay sleeping on her grandmother's couch during a midnight raid conducted by the Detroit Police Department's ...
It's the first time any Black person is leading the office of the U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of Georgia. Civil Rights & Social Justice D.C. Cops Who Killed Anti-Gun Activist Not Charged The D.C. police officers who shot and killed anti-gun violence activist Justin Robinson ...
2007: John Payton, the attorney who represented the University of Michigan in the two affirmative action cases that reached the Supreme Court, was named director-counsel and president of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund. 2008: Evelynn Hammonds, the Barbara Gutmann Rosenkrantz Professor of the History ...
The company didn't offer a Wheels a job the following spring, either, the lawsuit said. “It’s quite concerning how egregious the conduct was and that the employer didn’t take care of it,” EEOC regional attorney Mary O’Neill said Thursday. "There’s such a low percentage o...
In January 1928, attorney Charles S. Darden went into court to defend himself against a suit filed by his landlord for non-payment of rent. Darden asserted that the Central Avenue office space was uninhabitable because it was overrun by rats. His attempts to combat them with a cat called Ja...
Lawsuit: Michigan Black Man Wrongfully Detained During Walk More By COREY WILLIAMS, Associated Press A Black man has filed a $10 million civil rights lawsuit against a suburban Detroit police department and one of its officers, alleging the officer, who is white, wrongfully detained him as he...
Born in Detroit, Michigan, David Alan Grier is an acclaimed actor and comedian with a multitude of roles under his belt that span across theater, television, and film. Grier's early life was marked by a strong interest in performing arts, which led him to study at the prestigious Yale Sch...
S. Epatha Merkerson Saginaw, Michigan, USA As an acclaimed performer with gritty but approachable style, actress S. Epatha Merkerson began her career on the stage both on and off-Broadway before moving to television, where she played the longest-running character on the seemingly eternal "Law &...