Detroit

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/7532574

How could this have snuck under my radar?!

Updated: Oct. 25, 2023, 1:49 p.m. | Published: Oct. 25, 2023, 1:46 p.m.

Faygo has just unveiled a new flavor of pop and it tastes just like an Orange Creamsicle. The historic Michigan soda pop company’s new creation is called “Faygo Dreamin.” The orange creme soda gradually began hitting store shelves today across the state and everywhere Faygo pop is sold.

And speaking of which...

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Dr. Ossian Sweet (October 30, 1895 – March 20, 1960) was an African-American physician in Detroit, Michigan. He is known for being charged with murder in 1925 after he and his friends used armed self-defense against a hostile white mob protesting after Sweet moved into their neighborhood.

After the trials, Ossian Sweet rented the home on Garland [Street] to a white couple until 1930, when he moved back into the house. However, both his wife and two-year-old daughter Iva had died of tuberculosis in 1926. Sweet remarried twice, and divorced each time. In 1946, he sold the house, moving into the flat above a pharmacy he owned. In 1960, in failing health, Sweet took his own life.

The Ossian H. Sweet House was designated as a Michigan State Historic Site in 1975 and listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.

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Suddenly, without warning or fanfare, an organization from the AFL’s Waiters and Waitresses Union strode to the center of the main floor, blew a whistle, and shouted “Strike!”

As whistle-blowing activists spread the pre-arranged signal through the building, 250 saleswomen stepped back from their customers and folded their arms: Downtown’s first sit-down had begun.

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If sugar skulls ain't your thang...

That's right! Everybody's favorite four-letter word writ large on the silver screen at the gorgeous Detroit Film Theatre...CATS!

Why stay at home watching hilarious and lovable cat videos on your cellphone when you can bask in the grandeur of the "domesticated" felines 100 larger? You say you don't like cats? After this, you'll adopt ten and become a crazy cat ~~lady~~ person! Or maybe not.

Two shows Saturday, Oct. 28 (today, Sylvester!) and Sunday, Oct 29 (tomorrow, Fifi!), coinciding with National Cat Day (who knew?)

EDIT 14:33 CEST: typographical errors

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Saturday, October 28 and Sunday, October 29, from 12pm to 4pm!

Learn how sugar skulls are used for Day of the Dead celebrations in Mexican and Mexican American communities while you decorate one of your own to take home! No experience necessary. All supplies provided. Free with admission.

You gotta have ART!

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Yeah, I'm late on this one: the Monument to Joe Louis, by sculptor Robert Graham, was inaugurated October 16, 1986. Sue me.

Look at it. A couple of racist idiots doused it with white paint in 2004. "The Fist" just laughs. Like a few cans of paint could ever make a difference, could somehow diminish its power.

From "The Greatest" to the greatest...

Whatever I said before, I don't mean it, 'cause Joe Louis was the greatest.

Look at Joe's life. Everybody loved Joe. He would have been marked as evil if he was evil, but everybody loved Joe. From black folks to red-neck Mississippi crackers, they loved him. They're all crying. That shows you. Howard Hughes dies, with all his billions, not a tear. Joe Louis, everybody cried.

-- Muhammad Ali

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/7419504

With all the drama unfolding in Detroit around equity in mural painting, who should get to paint the city, and at what price, we’re taking this time to appreciate a piece that Detroiters can actually be proud of.

Earlier this week Mayor Mike Duggan, city officials, and community members gathered at a press conference to celebrate the 200th mural in Detroit’s City Walls program painted by lifelong Detroiter Nicole Macdonald.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/7302446

That’s when Detroit muralist Sydney James called us.

“All of these white artists painted Black people,” she says. “There was no vetting process or anything. They said, ‘Hey we can come in and paint these walls,’ and the city said OK, but they make Detroit artists go through the wringer and do all these community activations before they can put something up. These European artists weren’t asked to do all of that.”

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Additional "rabbit hole" links:

• A selection of Detroit murals by Detroit artists
• Does the Motor City’s public art serve the public?

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/7301382

...or Detroit City Council approves $13.9M for a second Maggot-dome

...or Use it or Lose it: Detroit City Council doesn't know on what to spend just shy of $14M of ARPA funds

...or Another reason pork is bad for you

...or Eastside Detroit's second Led Zeppelin will cost almost $14M

...or...

I could go on all day like this...

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/7250166

Saturday is Make a Difference Day and to highlight Breast Cancer Awareness Month we not only speak to two incredible educators who are survivors of breast cancer and making a difference -- Wendy and Nina Shirley -- we also caught up with Ascension Michigan at Focus Hope in Detroit offering free mammograms.

In metro Detroit, we are using our voice to help increase knowledge about breast cancer prevention and treatment.

Check the important links at the end of the article. 🩷🎗

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/7249846

And now the site's engulfed in Bedrock...twitch, twitch.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/7209967

The Land Value Tax Plan

Detroit’s Land Value Tax Plan is a way for Detroit voters to decide whether to cut homeowners’ taxes by an average of 17% and pay for it by increasing taxes on abandoned buildings, parking lots, scrapyards, and other similar properties.

If the Michigan Legislature authorizes, Detroit City Council would decide by November, 2023 whether to place the issue on the ballot. Detroit voters would decide whether to adopt the Land Value Tax at the February, 2024 Presidential primary election. Homeowners would see the full tax cut in 2025.

Make your voice be heard:

• NOTICE OF PUBLIC OUTREACH - D4 Land Value Tax Plan, Oct. 24, 5:00 p.m.
• NOTICE OF PUBLIC OUTREACH - D3 Land Value Tax Plan, Oct. 24, 6:00 p.m.
• NOTICE OF PUBLIC OUTREACH - D7 Land Value Tax Plan, Oct. 25, 5:00 p.m.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/7166787

Get yer EMO on, last-minute-style! With...

• Every Avenue
• The Summer Set
• State Champs
• LØLØ

You know you wanna! Show starts at 5:30pm.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/7150632

Take a walk!

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/7102019

Detroit Rock City! Didja go? Did it rock? Do you care?

...Hundreds of appointments cancelled due to purposely complicated forms.

"Try to figure out what you're supposed to print. See if you get it right," says [Dr.] Crissman. She also testified last month in support of the Reproductive Health Act at a committee hearing in the state capitol in Lansing. She spoke as the advocacy chair of the Michigan Section of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists. "Because everyday I see patients who've driven five hours for abortion care. And they haven't gotten it right."

Allow this post some leeway: it's true it's not Detroit-specific but it does affect Detroit residents. Thanks.