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Another Lockdown Order? Really?
By Makai Taylor | November 30, 2020As COVID-19 cases began to increase again this fall, on Nov. 16, Michigan went under another three-week shutdown.
As COVID-19 cases began to increase again this fall, on Nov. 16, Michigan went under another three-week shutdown.
High school athletes put their skills on display at the Sound Mind Sound Body HBCU football and cheer camp at King on May 13.
“Hiring is a complicated task to do," said Isaiah Moscow, team lead at Walmart.
Some African-American students in DPSCD have become entrepreneurs by starting their own businesses and adding to the number of Black-owned businesses.
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.
This year's Cass Tech STEM Expo moved to a virtual format. The STEM Expo has been an annual event at Cass Tech for 15 years.
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.
On Feb. 4, the Pistons held their 15th annual scholarship for art and poetry at Detroit Institute of Arts Theatre. From Communication and Media Arts, seniors Cheyenne Britton and Imari Dedrick competed in the program. Dedrick completed poetry. The event’s theme was “Past, Present, and my Future.”
