23 Jul The End of Joe’s Record Shop – Casualty of The Model City
This photo is of the looting of my father's record shop, on 12th St. It was my first time, last year, seeing an image of my father's store during the...
22 Jul Local Priest’s Seminary Days Changed by Riots
Don Archambault started the seminary attempting to understand the black community better., but five days in 1967 changed his ministry and life....
22 Jul Reliving the Riots
WXYZ's Carolyn Clifford relives July 1967 with former colleague and reporter Erik Smith...
22 Jul Paradise, and a Whole Lot More, Lost
Tearing down Paradise Valley and Black Bottom were supposed to bring Detroit. Kirk Pinho's story in Crain's Detroit Business says the opposite happened....
21 Jul Hour Detroit Looks Back at 1967
Richard Bak looks back on when the "Model City" for the United States erupted into a war zone....
21 Jul Lending a Voice to History
Steve Wilke of Hour Detroit explains how the Detroit Historical Society talked to hundreds of people about their experiences during the civil disturbances in July 1967....
21 Jul Street Beat goes to 12th and Clairmont
CW50's Street Beat takes its June 16 episode to look at some events around town recognizing Detroit 1967, including a new play, The Dream Deferred-Detroit....
21 Jul PBS NewsHour with Soledad O’Brien Examines Detroit 67: Looking Back to Move Forward
Riot? Rebellion? Revolution? PBS Newshour examines the causes and impacts of Detroit’s Long Hot Summer of 1967 and the civil unrest that changed our community forever. Tune in to Detroit...
21 Jul Detroit Free Press Features the Oral History of John Colling
The Detroit Historical Society collected over 500 oral histories as part of the Detroit 67 Project. Today's Detroit Free Press features the oral history of John Colling, the senior publicist...
21 Jul Detroit 67 Partners with Free Press to Live Tweet Events of Detroit’s Civil Unrest Fifty Years After the Summer of ‘67
The Detroit Free Press in collaboration with Detroit 67: Looking Back to MOVE FORWARD will share the events of civil unrest from July 1967 on social media accounts as they...