MUMFORD
Mighty Marching Mustangs start year with new gear
By Daveion Huby | November 10, 2019Mumford High School was one of five Detroit schools that won a music grant from Vans.
Mumford High School was one of five Detroit schools that won a music grant from Vans.
Larry Gray is the new principal at East English Village.
Western junior Victor Meza is an artist who likes to draw humans as cartoons or in his style, which is mostly cartoonish but does have a tad of realism.
Southeastern's back-to-school bash was like no other. That’s because this year’s host was Fiat Chrysler Automobiles (FCA), an automaker that is expanding its facilities on the eastside.
Four Southeastern athletes finished their seasons earning All-City honors.
SE was one of five Detroit schools to receive Vans Gives a Band grant. The school received $10,000 worth of instruments and an additional $10,000 to use to build the program.
On the morning of Oct. 23, students attending Communication & Media Arts High School were the first students in the city to learn about a life-changing opportunity for Detroit youth. The president of Wayne State University, M. Roy Wilson, announced that the college would guarantee free tuition for any graduating senior from Detroit.
During the second week of September, hundreds of volunteers from General Motors, Southwest Detroit Environmental Vision (SDEV), Ideal Group, and Detroit Cristo Rey gathered for what is known as teamGM Cares Week to improve areas of the city through community service projects.
At midnight Sept. 16, more than 46,000 UAW members walked off the job in a national strike against General Motors. The effects of the 40-day walkout rippled through the industry and community, including Detroit Cristo Rey High School.
Sen. Bernie Sanders made a special appearance at Cass Technical High School on Oct. 27.
Detroit Public Schools Community District Superintendent Nikolai Vitti and Chief of Police Ralph Godbee are working to ensure students and staff in all Detroit schools and buildings are safe.
In the days leading up to National Coming Out Day last October, the student body at Renaissance High School submitted 225 anonymous posts to a box dealing with mental health, sexuality, and other teen angsts. It filled a hallway that became known as the “Coming Out Wall. This project is now an exhibit at Affirmations, one of the country’s largest LGTBQ community centers.
On Jan. 14, Marshall Bullock was sworn in as state senator for the fourth district in the Mumford auditorium before an audience of friends, family, supporters and students.
King and Communication & Media Arts high schools were selected this school year to work with General Motors (GM) and Weber Shandwick Detroit Public Relations Academy.
East English Village sssistant principal Nadonya Muslim’s mission at the Ville is to inspire young women to be who and what they aspire to be in life. She models what she preaches. Muslim launched a second career in the beauty industry with her cosmetic line called Tauntus Cosmetics.
Not every high school can boast of having its own medical clinic, but students at East English are glad to be the exception.
Earlier this year a group of selected Ben Carson seniors and juniors where invited to a Detroit Economic Club Meeting.
Kyle McMurtry, a 2016 Renaissance graduate who now is a junior at Howard University, has published a children’s book that encourages K-5 students to attend HBCUs.
Dear Dr.Vitti and the Department of Literacy, My name is Zharia Akeem, and my colleague, Jalise Little, and I, both attend Renaissance High School.
