Some African-American students in DPSCD have become entrepreneurs by starting their own businesses and adding to the number of Black-owned businesses.
The boys swim team at King won the city championship by three points.
Fifty-nine Detroit students ages 14-17 participated in a survey during the month of December about whether they would get a COVID-19 vaccine.
Destiny Jenkins-Jones argues that the point of an HBCU is to give Black students -- and only Black students -- a chance to receive a higher education.
After much controversy, Joe Biden will become the 46th President of the United States. There has been debate about the results. Some think it was miscounted and unfair, while others agree with the results.
As COVID-19 cases began to increase again this fall, on Nov. 16, Michigan went under another three-week shutdown.
Regina Weiss, teacher at Benjamin Cason High School, was elected to the state legislature representing Michigan’s 27th District.
Detroit Public Schools Community District and Wayne State University sponsored their annual college fair for 11th and 12th grade students.
Makai Taylor writes that there are benefits and drawbacks to online learning.
Detroit teachers have received a new one-year contract between Detroit Public Schools Community District and the Detroit Federation of Teachers.
This election year, the group 482forward began a new program called Political Action and Covid Crisis Intervention Team (PACCT) to help boost voter registration and ultimately, voter turnout.
Southeastern High School students are starting careers as IRS certified tax preparers while still working on their high school diplomas.
We, the staff of the Mustang Voice, are writing to challenge the decision to delay release of the Feb. 27, 2020 issue of The Detroit Dialogue. Preventing distribution of the paper is a violation of our First Amendment press rights.
When Detroit Symphony Orchestra musician Jeffery Zook plays the piccolo it’s like “The spirit of life coming through me when I play the music,” he said. Western students heard the music come to life as Zook played piccolo with the DSO at Western last month in a performance that included “The William Tell Overture” by Gioachino Rossini and “Symphony No. 9” by Dmitri Shostakovich.
On Jan. 19 and 20, King held the 11th Annual MLK Legacy March: “The Dream & the Dean, The Legacy Lives.” This showcased civil rights activist Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s “dream” and Congressman John Conyers Jr.’s activism to maintain the “dream.”
Junior Adreanne Wheeler won two awards at the district DECA conference in December at Wayne County Community College District in Taylor. The win advanced her to state competition in March.
Senior Ridgeley Hudson has worked in his community since the age of 10 by participating in several outreach initiatives within his community and school district. He is a member of the executive board of the Detroit Public Schools Community District Council. Also, he is a youth minister at church, Perfecting Triumphant Overcomers Church located in Detroit.
Detroit Public Schools Community District has partnered with 24 arts organizations to create the Detroit School of Arts Pathways Initiative.
In recent years, Detroit Public Schools Community District has been rated one the worst school systems in the country by National Assessment of Educational Progress. A NAEP report had the district’s weakest areas in math and reading.
Dr. Nikolai Vitti, superintendent of DPSCD, recently announced to the faculty, parents, students and community that CMA will relocate to the campus at Ludington Middle School, 19501 Berg Road in Detroit.
