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Voucher program fails to relocate families from poor neighborhoods (Page A-3)

Teachers hold the key to our collective future (Page A-5) Training our adults to be competitive on the world stage and educating more of our children to be able to collaborate and compete globally is the key to the country’s future prosperity.

Stan ‘The Man’ does it again (Page B-1) It’s almost become a cliché to call Stan Lee the father of the modern superhero, but look around you, and all the major movies released

by Hollywood these days are based from ideas he worked out way back in the 1960s with such artists as Jack Kirby, Steve Ditko and others.

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Who will be Detroit’s

Lions’ brass deserve another year (Page C-1) As the very interesting NFL Playoffs continue, the road to New Orleans will get clearer and clearer. Sports Editor Leland Stein examines a complex situation.

Spotlight: Shaun T (Page D-1) Exercise, especially today, is in some respects a form of entertainment. And thanks to his groundbreaking and omnipresent “Insanity” workout infomercials, Shaun T has the most popular workout program today.

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For most Detroiters, cars are like clothing. Life would go on without them, but it wouldn’t be the same. The city has carried on a 125-year love affair with the automobile.

Emergency Manager?

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searching and bold action needed to get Detroit back on track. Because Detroit cannot continue borrowing to pay its own bills, the city faces a series of choices for financial recovery including an emergency manager, mediation, consent agreement and bankruptcy.

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Emergency manager are two poisonous words in Detroit politics right now, yet they ANALYSIS are the two most powerful words in the city’s cataclysmic financial conversation.

But the most obvious reality that some are now resigned to is the real possibility of an emergency manager running the city — for at least a year — to get the city’s books in order before the return to representative democracy.

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With last week’s financial report showing the widening financial crisis of the city, and the escalating crime rate reducing Detroit to a killing field, it’s hard to imagine how the city can extricate itself once and for all from the malaise of economic hardship and public safety nightmare it is already in without the requisite soul

For critics of the revised emergency manager law, this is the worst that could

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“Driving is what we do,” said Gloria Usher, a government worker from Detroit.

“When I look back on it, how I started driving, at such a young age mind you…what cars have meant to me, my father and my brothers. Cars are so important to who we are as Detroiters.”

For most people driving has been a lovehate relationship — traffic jams, accidents, noise — but overall, it has been an enduring and fascinating one. Growing up in the automobile capital of the world has its privileges.

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“The only way to describe cars…is beautiful,” said Cam Collins. “Just the mere fact that so many things come together to make an automobile functional and then to get behind the wheel of a car and feel its power, is unbelievable. I think we take it for granted. “ On January 16, 2013, the North American International Auto Show and the city of Detroit will host a plethora of events surrounding a group of people who have made the relationship with automobiles possible.

One event in particular, DRIVEN, honors African Americans who have not only withstood the onslaught of the recession and the automobile industry’s restructuring, but have thrived despite it.

In the 1880s, the continental United States wasn’t even united. California, Oregon, and Nevada were states, but separated from their eastern counterparts by nine territories that would ultimately become 10 states.

There were not yet cars, but the Indus-

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Council promises greater cooperation with mayor’s office in 2013

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saying he didn’t want to fight.

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“So, that has really been kind of the new approach within the last month,” Pugh said, adding that the administration has realized that a viable plan needs to be produced and implemented over the next month or so.

In a meeting last month at the Michigan Chronicle, members of the Detroit City Council spoke on various issues.

Council President Charles Pugh said he thinks there will be greater cooperation moving forward in discussions with the mayor’s office.

He also said the program management director has worked harder to meet with council members individually about upcoming issues, and so has Jack Martin.

Mayor Bing appointed Martin the city’s chief financial officer last spring.

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“For instance, we’ve had this facilitation over the transitioning of the health department, really, without us, without our approval,” Pugh said. “And so we

“Because there’s no more time left,” he said. “So there has to be cooperation. They realize we’re not the enemy. We actually live here, and we are willing to not only approve what you send us, but also give good ideas on how to improve the whole process.”

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had a facilitation based on that.

The outgoing COO was a part of that going around the council, and was going to be the mayor’s representative. So we were expecting an awful facilitation, just to go very poorly, because Chris Brown was going to be the rep-

resentative of the mayor’s office.

Well, thank goodness Chris Brown got another job.”

Mayor Bing had appointed Brown as the city’s chief operations officer in early 2011.

Pugh said Martin came in

Pugh expects there to be greater cooperation because A) of the urgency of the matter; and B) new people have the mayor’s ear about how to proceed.

“That’s just my opinion,” he said. “I could be wrong.”

Councilman James Tate said

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Reverence Home Health & Hospice to provide statewide services

served as the Administrator and Chief Nursing Officer for Borgess VNA Home Health & Hospice in Kalamazoo since 2008, where she oversaw operations for the entire southwest regional home health and hospice program.

By Dr. P. Maryland I am delighted to announce the formation of Reverence Home Health & Hospice, a statewide home care provider launched on January 1, 2013. In Southeast Michigan, Reverence Home Health & Hospice will be a service provided by St. John Providence Health System.

St. John Providence Health System is a member of the Michigan Health Ministries of Ascension Health, which also include Borgess Health, Genesys Health System, St. Joseph Health System and St. Mary’s of Michigan.

Each of these ministries, except St. Mary’s of Michigan, already had existing home care agencies, which seamlessly transition operations to the new statewide entity, retaining its current professional staff, clinical excellence reputation and high customer service expectations. Reverence also began to offer home health and hospice services in the St. Mary’s service area of Saginaw.

In preparation for health care reform and population health management, the primary focus of Reverence Home Health & Hospice will be to ensure seamless transitions of care and services between our Health Ministries’ hospitals and home care settings.

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Dr. Patricia Maryland Health & Hospice’s clinical services are comprehensive and include home health, hospice, infusion services, tele-health monitoring and palliative care.

Reverence’s statewide headquarters is centrallybased at Genesys in Grand Blanc, however clinical services and staff remain at each local Health Ministry to maintain continuity of care and services for patients, physicians, discharge planners and social workers.

One out of every eight patients cared for in Michigan is served by one of Ascension Health’s Michigan Ministries and, collaboratively, the Michigan Health Ministries currently have 6 percent market share in home health and hospice services.

Linda Young, RN, MSN, has been appointed President of Reverence Home Health & Hospice. With nearly 30 years of experience, Linda previously

The Michigan Health Ministries of Ascension Health include Borgess Health in Kalamazoo, Genesys Health System in Grand Blanc, St. John Providence Health System in Metro Detroit, St. Joseph Health System in Tawas and St. Mary’s of Michigan in Saginaw.

Together, the health systems employ more than 30,000 associates and are a major economic driver in the state, with $1.5 billion in payroll each year. In fiscal year 2011, the Michigan Health Ministries provided more than $314 million in community benefit and care of the poor.

For more information about the Michigan Health Ministries of Ascension Health, visit ascensionhealth.org/michigan.

For more information about Reverence Home Health & Hospice, call 888-246-6322 or visit reverence.com/stjohnprovidence.

Dr. Patricia A. Maryland is the President and CEO of St. John Providence Health System and the Michigan Market Leader for Ascension Health.

‘We Must Be Changed’ “We Must Be Changed,” an edutainment documentary produced by local artists and musicians, will premiere at the Main Art Theatre in Royal Oak on Thursday, Jan. 17, from 7-9pm. Donation and support tickets are available for $20 and $50, respectively by visiting www.wemustbechanged.com.

For $20 patrons receive entry to the film screening as well as a copy of the DVD and soundtrack.

For $50 patrons receive priority seating at the film screening, entry to the film’s reception prior to the screening, a piece of “We Must Be Changed” apparel, and a copy of the DVD and soundtrack.

Drawing upon influences like Marvin Gaye’s “What’s Going On” and Stevie Wonder’s “Living

for the City,” this second installment of the threepart series unpacks issues of unity, freedom, constitutional and human rights, politics, peace and love.

Using thought-provoking interviews, important societal statistics, and entertaining skits, this film seeks to educate and entertain while addressing the pertinent social problems of today. Although based in Detroit, the subject matters in the film transcend locational and perceived boundaries, obviously very critical during these times of social unrest in the nation and world.

Speaker and author Robin West Smith says, “this film captures the essence of urban sociology.” Taken from a

pedagogical perspective, several of the film’s interviewees, including West Smith, offer solutions to the way in which people connect with one another, rear children, and live together in unity.

“We Must Be Changed” Volume I was released on Jan. 5, 2012 and is available on YouTube and the third installment in the “We Must Be Changed” series is slated for release in late 2013.

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Granby receives leadership award

Verizon Wireless’ John Granby, president of the company’s Michigan/Indiana/Kentucky Region, has received the CareerFOCUS 2012 Eagle Award from the National Eagle Leadership Institute and CareerFOCUS Magazine.

The Eagle Award salutes professionals who set a higher standard of leadership in both their business and community endeavors, and whose forward thinking sustains their companies’ success with the highest degree of integrity and honor.

Granby was recognized for his commitment to a servant leadership style where he focuses on removing obstacles for his employees so nothing stands in their way of success. He was also honored

emy in Redford. The grant will be used for mobile technology training in the classrooms.

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Granby’s responsibilities for the three-state region, which employs 2,000, includes all sales, marketing, operations, financial performance and customer service. He has been with Verizon Wireless for 18 years. Prior to his current position, Granby was director of Customer Service for the company’s Georgia/Alabama Region.

for his commitment to the community. In particular, Granby was instrumental in making possible a $50,000 grant from the Verizon Foundation to Cornerstone School’s Washington-Parks Acad-

He earned a bachelor’s degree from Virginia Technical Institute and State University.

For more information, visit www.verizonwireless.com.

Beaumont offering wellness program to female cancer survivors Beaumont Hospital in Royal Oak is offering Silver Linings Cancer Survivors Program, an eight-week wellness program, for women cancer survivors.

Silver Linings is free to participants, regardless of where they received treatment for their cancer. All interested participants must attend one information/registration session at 6:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Jan. 15 or Jan. 22 at the Rose Cancer Center on the campus of Beaumont, Royal Oak. The session will take place in the first floor classroom.

Registrants must be 18 years or older and have completed their cancer treatments.

includes instruction in meditation; yoga; mindful communication/eating; breast awareness/self-exam; and discussion of post-cancer body image and sexuality.

The program helps cancer survivors explore and heal the physical, emotional and spiritual effects of the disease.

Explains Ruth Lerman, M.D., “Our research has shown that program participants experience an improved quality of life. This includes decreased stress and cancer-related physical and psychological symptoms. It may even improve the thinking and memory problems known as chemo brain.”

Those interested in attending either information/registration session are asked to RSVP with Pam Jablonski at 248-551-4645 or pjablonski@beaumont. edu.

A research team from Oakland University and Beaumont Health System completed a randomized, controlled study of Silver Linings in September 2010. Their work was published in the February 2012 Annals of Surgical Oncology.

Silver Linings is designed for women who have survived any type of cancer and

More than 200 women have benefited from Silver Linings training since 2005.

January is National Birth Defects Prevention Month

Using film, music and apparel, PM3K Publishing engages in the difficult conversations that have kept society disconnected, isolated and uninformed.

For more information, visit www.wemustbechanged.com.

Detroit Residents: Support local veterans by voting for the 313 Project 313 Project in Detroit is enlisting area residents to help the organization win a $25,000 The Home Depot gift card by voting daily in January in The Home Depot Foundation’s second annual Aprons in Action Facebook contest.

Voting began Jan. 1 and runs through Jan. 31, 2013 at www.facebook. com/homedepotfoundation.

The final percentages of votes for each nonprofit will be posted on The Home Depot and The Home Depot Foundation’s Facebook pages on February 1, 2013 at 9:00 a.m.

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The organization that receives the most votes during the month will win the $25,000 prize to help fund an organizational or community improvement project, and will have the opportunity to compete for the grand prize of $250,000 at the end of the year-long program.

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In the January round of the competition, The 313 Project is competing against three other veterans-focused organizations across the country including Another Chance Outreach Center in Gary, Ind., Sons of the American Legion in East Point, Ga., and Vetshouse Inc., in Virginia Beach, Va. The runner-up organizations will receive $5,000 in The Home Depot gift cards.

Voting runs through January 31, 2013 at 11:59 p.m. ET. Find Aprons in Action on The Home Depot Foundation’s Facebook page at www. facebook.com/homedepotfoundation. Voting is available on computers and mobile devices.

For more information and to view the program rules, visit The Home Depot on Facebook or go to www.homedepotfoundation.org.

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For additional information, please visit www. the313project.org.

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The final failure of a failed Congress

By William Rivers It was difficult to imagine anything more comprehensively humiliating to the American republic than the spectacle of Congress slobbering its way through the sad cabaret of the so-called “fiscal cliff crisis.”

But never fear, Boehner is here.

The GOP delegations from the affected states were, flatly, apoplectic. Rep. GOP Peter King, one of the nuttier fruitcakes in the Republican pastry cart, let fly with the kind of invective he usually reserves for women, homosexuals, Democrats and other people he generally deems un-American. To wit:

Late Tuesday night, House Speaker Boehner — out of absolutely nowhere — canceled a vote on the much-needed aid package for states affected by Hurricane Sandy. The package had already passed the Senate with flying colors and only needed House approval for the president to sign it into law. Apparently, however, the so-called “small government” ghouls from the Southern and Western delegations decided the country really doesn’t need to help two of the most populous Northeastern states in the country.

Boehner’s people had been telling the Republican delegations from New York and New Jersey that the bill was coming all day, promising left and right not to worry, and then — wham!

— gone, nope, nothing.

I’m talking about the thousands of people in my district, hundreds of thousands of people throughout the New York-New Jersey area. Within 10 days after Katrina, $60 billion was appropriated. Nine weeks after Sandy, not one penny has been appropriated.

The storm, you will recall, killed at least 120 people, destroyed or damaged some 72,000 homes and businesses in New Jersey, and affected 305,000 homes and more than 265,000 businesses in New York.

The Republican party has bias against New York, this bias against New Jersey, this bias against the Northeast. They wonder why they’re becominga minority party. What they did that night was so immoral, so disgraceful, so irresponsible.

They’re supposed to be the party of family values. And you have families that are starving, families that are suffering, families that are spread all over

These GOP guys are the ones who are so worried about the economy. No big economic hit from the storm, right?

Or something.

These Republicans have no problem finding New York when they’re out raising millions of dollars. They’re in New York all the time filling pockets with money from New Yorkers. I’m saying anyone from New York and New Jersey who contributes one penny to Congressional Republicans is out of their mind. Because what they did that night was put a knife in the back of New Yorkers and New Jerseyans. It was an absolute disgrace.

ken than New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, who, in a freewheeling press conference delivered specifically about the House’s failure to pass the aid package, declared: “There’s only one group to blame for the continued suffering of these victims, the House majority and their speaker. It was disappointing and disgusting to watch. There is no reason at the moment to believe anything they tell me, because they’ve been telling me stuff for weeks and they didn’t deliver.”

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This was a disgrace. They are inexcusable. And they have had it. As far as I’m concerned I’m on my own. They’re going to have to go a long way to get my vote on anything.

King was not alone in his outrage. Rep. Michael Grimm (R-NY) said, “We were all set to go, and I feel that this was a betrayal, I just have to say it. I feel it’s a betrayal and an indefensible, an indefensible error in judgment on the speaker’s behalf.”

Rep. Eliot Engel (D-NY) said, “This is an absolute disgrace, and the speaker should hang his head in shame.”

Rep. Nita Lowey (D-NY) said, “I feel truly betrayed this evening.”

It goes on.

None were more outspo-

Purchasing Managers Index shows growth in Southeast Michigan The Southeast Michigan Purchasing Managers Index (PMI) remained stable in December, dipping only one-tenth of a point to 51.8 from 51.9 in November.

PMI index values above 50 generally suggest an expanding economy.

“The Southeast Michigan PMI has maintained a value over 50 for 33 of the past 34 months, indicating a steady strengthening of the regional economy,” said Timothy Butler, associate professor of supply chain management at Wayne State’s business school.

Butler said the Production Index of 54.5 and the Employment Index of 53.2 contributed to the favorable reading this month, as did the Vendor Deliveries Index of 53. He added that the New Orders Index dropped to 48.5, which indicates that there was a reduction in new orders in the region in November.

The Commodity Prices index increased slightly to 54.5 from the November index of 51.4. Items increasing in price included armor plate steel, coiled steel and aluminum. Items reported down in price are liquid asphalt and polyethylene resin.

“The majority of purchasing managers responded that the economy will remain about the same or become more stable over the next six months,” said Ken Doherty, a member of the Institute for Supply Management and assistant vice president for procurement and strategic sourcing at Wayne State University.

“The ‘fiscal cliff’ was on the minds of purchasing managers, who worry about the impact on the regional economy.

Now that it has been averted, it will be interesting to see if or how that reflects in next month’s PMI.” Of the purchasing managers surveyed, 60.6 percent indicated that the economy will remain about the same over the next six months, 12.1 percent indicated the economy will be more stable and 27.3 percent responded that the economy will be less stable.

The Southeast Michigan Purchasing Managers Index (PMI) is a research partnership between Wayne State University’s School of Business Administration and the Institute for Supply Management – Southeast Michigan.

Wisconsin GOP senator dismisses Kwanzaa people to follow his lead and question a holiday that African-Americans have been celebrating for years.

Wisconsin Republican State Senator Glenn Grothman actually composed and sent out a press release calling for an end to the African American holiday, Kwanzaa.

“He, as usual, blames progressives and teachers for respecting all traditions, and having the audacity to include every holiday and tradition that occurs around this time every year.

He asks in a press release: “Why must we still hear about Kwanzaa?

Why are hard-core left wingers still trying to talk about Kwanzaa — the supposed African-American holiday celebration between Christmas and New Year’s?”

Characterizing Kwanzaa as a fake holiday conjured up by a racist professor and perpetuated by hard-core liberals, Grothman goes on to say Kwanzaa was put forth to separate Americans.

The senator continues, “Of course, almost no Black people today care about Kwanzaa — just White left-wingers who try to shove this down Black people’s throats in an effort to divide Americans,” Grothman said.

“Irresponsible public school districts such as Green Bay and Madison … try to tell a new generation that Blacks have a separate holiday than Christians,” says Grothman, who adds Karenga “didn’t like the idea that Christ died for all of our sins, so he felt Blacks should have their own holiday — hence, Kwanzaa.”

“With tens of millions of honorable Black Americans in our country’s past, we should not let a violent nut like Karenga speak for them,” he said.

“That press release is absolutely disgusting and drips with disdain for African-Americans and, therefore, I am calling on him to retract his statements.”

Grothman, whose district includes most of Ozaukee County, including Port Washington and Saukville, received national attention earlier this year when he proposed legislation that listed single parenthood as a contributing factor to child abuse.

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The contents of his press release, of course, caused outrage and a flurry of critism.

The following message calls for an immediate retraction from the treasurer of the Ozaukee Democratic Party.

“Senator Grothman seems to outdo himself every time he opens his mouth,” said Meg Moen, treasurer of the county Democratic Party.

“His recent press release about Kwanzaa was absolutely jaw-dropping.

Not only does Senator Grothman seem to find his inherit racism acceptable, he implores

State Sen. Lena Taylor, an African-American lawmaker from Milwaukee, couldn’t be reached for comment on Monday. But she said the seven days of Kwanzaa bring with it the principle of “Umoja,” the Swahili term for unity, in an editorial printed in the Milwaukee Courier on Dec. 29.

Kwanzaa is an African American holiday created

by Dr. Maulana Karenga, a professor and chair of Africana Studies at California State University, Long Beach.

The holiday was first celebrated in 1967.

The week-long cultural celebration takes place Dec. 26 through Jan. 1 and celebrates the seven principles of the Nguzo Saba: Umoja (Unity), Kujichagulia (Self determination), Ujima (Collective Work and Responsibility), Ujamaa (Cooperative Economics), Nia (Purpose), Kuumba (Creativity), Imani (Faith).

When asked if there would be political consequences for Boehner and the GOP majority’s failure to act, Christie replied bluntly, “We’ll see. Primaries are an ugly thing.”

The sun will rise on Thursday morning to shine down upon the end of the 112th Congress, the single most useless do-nothing assembly of fools and failures in modern American political history.

Boehner and his crew of cretins in the House majority are almost singlehandedly responsible for the anemic economic recovery to date, entirely because they decided to sit on their hands rather than do anything — anything! — that might come within a country mile of helping President Obama win re-election.

They sat on a variety of jobs bills. They killed a minimum wage increase. They killed the Buffett Rule, which would have set an infinitesimal tax on millionaires, a bill supported by a huge majority of Americans.

Along the way, they killed a bill to provide more transparency in campaign financing. They killed a bill to protect the rights of the disabled because, somehow, they decided it would lead to a takeover of America by the United Nations.

And in one last vile act, they failed to vote on the reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act that was approved in the Senate by a 2-1 margin back in April.

After a day of getting screamed at by his own people, jellyfish Boehner backtracked and informed Rep. King that the House will vote on $9 billion in Sandy aid on Friday, and on $51 billion in aid on Jan. 15.

No rush, right? It isn’t as if people are suffering or anything.

But here’s the thing: there’s no promise either bill will get past the nutjobs who almost completely control the GOP House majority.

With only a few notable exceptions — take a bow, Allen West — this exact same (bunch) will be returning for the 113th Congress, and the idea that John Boehner will have more control of them Friday than he did yesterday is almost too absurd to mention...and the fight over the debt limit is just over the horizon.

Take note, America. This is what you voted for.

Please be more careful next time.

HUD voucher program fails to relocate families from poor neighborhoods

By Stefanie DeLuca Social scientists and policy makers have long understood the harmful effects that living in high poverty neighborhoods can have on children and adults. Numerous studies underscore the links between neighborhood disadvantage and a host of social problems, including high school dropout, infant mortality, cognitive difficulties, teenage childbearing and exposure to violence.

These studies show that families living in high poverty neighborhoods face burdens beyond their individual resource constraints in finding jobs, staying safe and raising children. After falling during the decade of the 1990s, both the number of neighborhoods of extreme concentrated poverty and the number of people living in such neighborhoods rose during the past decade, such that 10 percent of poor people now live in extremely high poverty neighborhoods.

Starting in the 1990s, the federal government significantly reshaped housing policy to address the problem of concentrated poverty. Recognizing that public housing projects were creating the very environments they were designed to eliminate, Congress authorized the HOPE VI program in 1992. This program provided funding to demolish public housing complexes.

While these new communities were intended to reduce poverty concentration by encouraging middle class and poor families to share the same neighborhood, the HOPE VI program did not give residents a right to return to the redeveloped community, and failed to provide one-for-one replacement of public housing units. This contributed to a reduction the nation’s supply of public housing, and also meant that many of the original tenants would not be part of the new community.

The families who did not or could not return to public housing after HOPE VI joined the millions of poor families already participating in the Department of Housing and Urban Development’s Housing Choice Voucher (HCV) program.

HCV(formerly Section 8) is the largest housing program in the country, subsidizing over 2.2 million households, twice the number served by traditional public housing projects. The voucher program provides tenants with a rent subsidy which they can use to lease any

private-market unit renting at or lower than 40-50 percent of the metropolitan area median rent.

Because vouchers are not attached to specific developments, the HCV program should theoretically work to deconcentrate poverty by allowing poor families to move to more affluent neighborhoods than they would otherwise be able to afford.

Yet despite this potential, vouch er holders usually struggle to move out of poor neighborhoods —on the whole, they are no more likely to relocate to low-poverty communities than poor renters who do not receive federal housing assistance. There are also significant racial differences in the program. Minority voucher users are even less likely than whites to move to better communities, and the proportion of voucher recipients in such neighborhoods shrinks when recipients are mostly black and unassisted households are mostly white. In sum, the HCV program falls short of its full potential to facilitate moves by lowincome families out of poor neighborhoods.

A multi-year study of family dynamics and housing mobility that we conducted in Mobile, Alabamahelps explain why the program doesn’t work as designed.

While the story of housing and segregation is well known in larger “rust belt” cities in the Northeast and Midwest, less is known about how these processes play out in smaller cities, and cities in the South. Almost a quarter of the HCV households in the Mobile area live in the highest poverty neighborhoods. Between 2009 and 2012, we talked with more than 100 low income African-American families across Mobile about the places they had lived in the past, their reasons for moving, and their neighborhood characteristics, children, finances, and family dynamics.

The difficulties begin before the families even receive their subsidy.

Because the supply of vouchers lags far behind the demand, housing authorities often maintain waitlists that are thousands of names long. In many cities, the names on the wait lists are so stale that administrators have abandoned a “first come, first served” policy and instead select families randomly.

Once families do receive their voucher, they are limited in the amount

of time they have to search for a unit. With such a high demand, housing authorities are under pressure to rescind the voucher if a family can’t find a unit in the allotted time.

Mothers responded to this time crunch in a number of ways that reduced their chances of moving out of poor neighborhoods and into higher opportunity areas. Some relied on their social networks to refer them to a landlord—this common practice eased anxiety about running out of search time and being left without housing, but often meant that families took a housing unit in a poor or segregated neighborhood, because a relative in such a neighborhood saw a “for rent” sign down the street, or were themselves renting from the same landlord.

Another significant factor that limits the geographic scope of the housing search is “the list,” a sheet of available properties and participating landlords given to families by the housing authority. Many people said the list was their primary resource during the housing search, and some believed (incorrectly) that they were not allowed to use their vouchers at places which weren’t on the list. After reviewing the list, we found that there were nearly 200 properties on it, but only nine were in non-segregated neighborhoods in the city, and only seven were in non-poor neighborhoods.

Clearly, families who use the HCV program face a number of constraints that limit their ability to make a careful, calculated search for housing.

Not only do they face difficulties finding affordable housing where landlords will take their voucher in the first place, but with the loud ticking clock on their voucher, they are often forced into desperate and last minute choices about where to live.

Landlord referrals, the housing authority’s limited property list, and a general unfamiliarity with better off neighborhoods helped channel families into other poor, segregated neighborhoods.

While the nation’s public housing policy is touted as allowing poor families the freedom and “choice”to move to better neighborhoods, our research shows that is frequently not the case. The reality is that many lowincome families are stuck living in high poverty, racially segregated areas.

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Emergency Manager From page A-1 happen to Detroit’s democratic system of governance, where the long tradition of home rule and the right to self-determination has guided electoral politics.

Mindful of this political minefield, Gov. Rick Snyder, and his Lansing team that includes State Treasurer Andy Dillon, have been walking a fine line to ensure that none of their actions in Detroit’s financial recovery is interpreted as a state takeover. That has led supporters of an emergency manager for Detroit to conclude that the state is babysitting Detroit’s financial crisis and at the same time playing fiddle.

Detroit needs a strong surgical operation into its finances if the city cannot get its books in order, EM supporters say.

Everyone agrees that the city of Detroit has massive structural problems that have engulfed its financial wellbeing.

And the current financial review that’s under way, the first step to determine an emergency manager, will further show how decades-long problems have been left unsolved, leading to this point.

And if Detroit goes the route of an emergency manager, who will that person be?

It will be the most significant position in the city in decades because of not only the enhanced powers of that individual, but also the political seismic shift that occurs instantly once the person is installed.

Also because that person will always be in the political crosshairs of all debates about the future of the city, and the public outrage about an EM as well as outbursts about the ineffectiveness of Detroit’s government.

Because of that, it appears “play it safe” has been the guiding rule for the deciders of the EM with the careful circulation of names that are familiar in Detroit politics such as former deputy mayor and mayoral candidate Freman Hendrix, former mayoral candidate and municipal executive Charlie Beckham, former Coleman Young veteran Charlie Williams as possible candidates for EM. These names are being thrown around to guage public reaction and its unclear if, in fact, any of them would emerge as emergency manager for Detroit if the city gets to that point.

Beckham ran the mayoral campaign of Mayor Dave Bing and left the administration shortly after.

Some

sources

have

said Lansing has been constantly talking with Beckham who’s been a leading critic of the Bing administration’s recent approach to overhaul of the city’s finances.

In numerous interviews Beckham has been intimating that Detroit’s cumbersome problems were too overwhelming for the mayor and that a mammoth political institution like Detroit requires tough choices that may not be politically expedient.

In the past Beckham has said he is only offering an honest and strong cure for the city’s finances and that there was noting personal between him and Mayor Bing whom he says he still plays golf with. It will be interesting to see how a once insider who helped orchestrate the Bing era now stands as a possible succcessor to Bing, but in the form of an emergency manager.

Hendrix, when contacted, said no one from Lansing, including the governor’s office, talked to him about being an emergency manager for Detroit.

But another name that keeps coming up is Detroit City Council President Pro Tem Gary Brown.

Brown, a former deputy police chief whose entanglement with the administration of Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick, and his court vindication, contributed greatly to the downfall of that regime, rose to political power as a victim of the follies and failures of the Kilpatrick era.

When I contacted Brown Monday afternoon to ask whether he’s talking to the state treasurer and the governor about becoming Detroit’s emergency manager his response was, “I’m not in favor of an emergency manager.”

Further asked if he will accept the job should Dillon appoint him, he only said he has “not been asked,” without saying what his response would be.

Pressed further on the matter, Brown said he is “not going to speculate on something that has not happened.”

The Brown factor becomes even more interesting given his close ties with Dillon whom he endorsed for governor when the former Democratic House speaker was seeking to become Michigan’s next governor.

Brown was reportedly on Dillon’s short list for lieutenant governor if he had clinched the nomination.

In December of 2012 Brown issued this statement regarding Detroit’s dire finances and supporting Mayor Dave Bing’s

Promises not to get caught up in what various council members might say; the goal is to get five votes to approve a particular initiative.

Tate said he likes Mayor Bing and appreciates the fact that he took this job, adding that he “wouldn’t touch it with a ten foot pole.”

And while he would have done some things differently had he been in Bing’s shoes, Tate said he’s told the mayor that he doesn’t look at this as a personal thing.

“I can’t,” he said. “This isn’t about me. It’s not about James Tate, city council member vs. anybody.”

According to Tate, the members of the council have to live with every decision they make.

“Because we’re in this city,” he said. “We’ve got mortgages. You know, vested interests in seeing everything we do flourish and prosper.”

Councilwoman Saunteel Jenkins said how the council feels about the process matters more than how they feel about the mayor.

“Whether we like him or dislike him, the bottom line is when items come to council, if we have all of the appropriate information, how are we voting?” she said. “And I’m not saying yes or no

is right, because that will change depending on the situation. But we need to set whatever our feelings are aside and vote based on the issues.”

The council members also discussed what they would say to a resident “on the fence” about moving out.

Pugh said a Regional Transit Authority has passed in the legislature, meaning we’re one step closer to finally getting some semblance of mass transit in the city.

He also said Whole Foods and various investments are coming into the city.

“There are so many projects that are real jobs, real improvements, real change that will be here for a while,” Pugh said, adding that he’s here because he wants to be, not because he has to.

Pugh also said city government is not the city.

“There are many parts of the city where you go and you will see people who have a wonderful standard of living and love their neighborhoods, and their kids go to good schools,” he said.

Tate described what the Brightmoor community — where his wife is from — has done to transform itself as “amazing.”

“The things they’re doing with the kids, the things they’re doing with

push for layoffs.

“Detroit’s elected officials had frequent opportunities to make the bold cuts, including the FY2011 and FY2012 budgets. Due to the lack of political will we failed to make the necessary cuts to the General Fund Budget. During the FY2012 budget process I recommended a $140 Million cut that was eventually decreased to a $50 million reduction,” Brown said.

“Both the legislative body and administration faltered on making the politically tough choices to change the culture of overspending. Our primary issue today is that we are burning through cash every minute while the reforms are not being implemented. The progress we have made has been slow and extremely frustrating.”

Brown said there has been incremental progress at city hall.

“We approved a contract to modernize our payroll system that will save several million dollars.”

Tom Barrow, former mayoral challenger is opposing any form of an emergency manager for Detroit. Instead Barrow in an email to supporters said Detroit should head to Chapter 9 bankruptcy protection.

“If Detroit’s mayor and council continue to act like lambs, conservatives will continue to feast like lions,” Barrow said.

Detroit attorney Bertram Marks who is general counsel of the Detroit Council of Baptist Pastors said he’s urging Gov. Snyder to name Beckham emergency manager because he has “ran five different departments” of the city and has “the insight, energy and fortitude to make tough decisions and stand by them as long as they improve the service delivery and operations of the city.”

Bankole Thompson is editor of the Michigan Chronicle and the author of the forthcoming book “Rising From the Ashes: Engaging Detroit’s Future With Courage.” His book “Obama and Black Loyalty,” published in 2010, follows his recent book, “Obama and Christian Loyalty” with an epilogue

by Bob Weiner, former White House spokesman.

Thompson is a political news analyst at WDET101.9FM (NPR affiliate) and a member of the weekly “Obama Watch” Sunday evening roundtable on WLIB-1190AM New York and simulcast in New Jersey and Connecticut. E-mail bthompson@michronicle.com or visit his personal page at www.bankolethompson. com.

From page A-1 the urban farming,” he said. “They have said, ‘You know what? You guys have to catch up with us. We’re not going to wait for you.’”

He said he would ask the person “on the fence” if he or she is doing all possible to help his or her community grow.

Tate also said if people don’t feel safe in their homes, they’ll leave, no matter what “infrastructural things” we have going on.

He described a recent conversation with a friend whose brother had been shot and killed in the city.

The friend moved away years ago, told Tate he was never coming back.

Tate said the death of his friend’s brother only exacerbated longstanding feelings anger and frustration.

“He said ‘This is not home,” Tate said. “‘This is bizarre. What happens here in this city is not like anywhere else.

I appreciate what you’re doing, because my parents live here. But I want to get them out. And I don’t want to come here again. Ever.’”

Tate asked to whom they’ll be leaving the city if the “young folks” like himself continue to leave.

“It’s never going to improve (under those conditions),” he said.

Featured in the pages of DRIVEN, Charles Burns is the first African American head of the Detroit Grand Prix.

Auto Industry trial Revolution was well under way. The country had more than 160,000 miles of railroad tracks by 1890. That is almost four times the length of today’s Interstate highway system. But if you wanted to travel where you wanted and when you wanted, you were relegated to the horse, or the mule.

Conventional 19th century wisdom held that a man on horseback could cover about 20 miles a day without harming his mount. If you lived in rural America, you were unlikely to see much of the country that lay beyond your horse’s range in your lifetime. And such things as emergency medical service, pizza delivery and the Roto-Rooter Man were not even dreams.

The automobile proved to be the device that freed every American of geography and the loneliness of isolation.

“I wouldn’t know what to do if I couldn’t drive,” said Joe Meade. “I think I have been driving since I was at least 12. For most of us here in Detroit…it’s such an important part of our makeup. Driving is a part of our culture. All of us remember the first time we got behind the wheel of a car. You had died and gone to heaven.”

The average American knows that Henry Ford invented the Model T, that there was a song involving Lucille and an Oldsmobile, that tires lasted about two hours, and that you risked being considered foolish if you drove a “horseless carriage.”

The generally accepted birth year of the car is 1885, the year Benz actually built his first gasoline-powered threewheeler, which means that this is either the 126th or 127th anniver-

sary of the car. And more than 100,000 patents ultimately contributed to the creation of what we know as the automobile.

In 1900, in Europe, Ferdinand Porsche, in addition to insisting that his name be pronounced POR-shuh and not Porsche, produced a remarkable automobile.

It was battery powered with four electric motors, one at each wheel. Sound familiar? It should, because it was essentially a hybrid, and it happened 111 years ago.

In Michigan, which would become the seat of the American car industry, Ransom E. Olds expanded on mass production of the automobile. He, not Henry Ford, established the first true assembly line and used it to build a tiller-steered car known as the “curved dash” Oldsmobile. By 1902 he was pumping 2,500 cars out the door, and this rose to 5,000 Oldsmobiles by 1904. To put these sales in perspective, Benz sold 572 vehicles in 1899.

This set the stage for Henry Ford and his refined and expanded assembly line. Ford’s first automobile was not the Model T, but the Quadricycle, an open, gasolinefueled, four-wheel, tillersteered contraption with a seating capacity of two.

On June 4, 1896, when he was ready to test his creation, which he built in a shed behind his home on Bagley Avenue in Detroit, Ford had to remove a wall because the Quadricycle would not fit through the doors. The good news was that the Quadricycle worked and led to the formation of the Henry Ford Company and later the Ford Motor Company.

In 1908 Ford brought out the Model T, the car

From page A-1 that would put America on wheels. It cost $850 and sold 10,000 units in its first year. Four years later, Ford reduced the price to $575. By 1916 some 55 percent of the world’s automobiles were Model Ts, a record that was never equaled. By the time Model T production ceased in 1927, more than 15 million of the cars had been sold. Amazingly, an astonishing number of Model Ts are still with us, and there would be more had World War II scrap drives not consumed thousands of them.

Cars today are better than anyone ever thought they could be. Diesels don’t rattle or smell anymore. Onboard GPS systems can help you find a hotel or a Starbucks when you’re traveling. Cars are safer and sounder — and they last for years.

The U.S. industry produced the first minivan in 1983, and not long after, the SUV became the thing for moms and dads to drive because kids didn’t want to be seen in a minivan. The station wagon reappeared in the 1990s, but is now called a crossover. The hybrid is back, and so is the electric car.

The love affair between Americans and their cars has lasted for more than a century. Like most affairs of the heart, those years have produced triumph, tragedy, creativity, innovation, and a substantial dose of laughter and lunacy. This is likely to continue.

“When I moved here from Grand Rapids, it amazed me that people would get in their car to go two blocks to the grocery store,” said Debra Usher. “I found it ridiculous. But that’s Detroit.”

Next week: How the DRIVEN event went from an idea to a reality.

Police morale at center of fighting crime in Detroit

By Zack Burgess CHRONICLE SENIOR WRITER

Everyone in Detroit city government, from council to the mayor’s office, agrees that public safety is the city’s number one concern right now. However, a myriad of changes will take place in the enduring months that will certainly bring a new set of challenges to keeping the city safer.

According to sources, there is a list circulating of several units that will face cuts in the enduring months ahead.

Right now the units being considered are: Gang Enforcement, Tactical Mobile, Police Community Services, Crime Analysis, Violent Crimes Task Force, Office of Chief Investigator and Narcotics, which could possibly lead to an erosion of moral throughout the Detroit Police Department.

“I would say that (morale) is getting better,” said Interim Chief of Police Chester Logan. “At one time or a few months ago, it was pretty bad. But I think things are getting better. I think we have one heck of a police department here in Detroit. I’m really proud of them. The city of Detroit, despite all the problems we have…the Detroit Police Department is as good as it gets and is better than most.”

Detroiters have seen the homicide rate in the city run amok – with a serious increase (411) from the previous year, up from 377 in 2011. It is the highest peak in nearly two decades, officials said during a press conference last week.

“As the chief of police in the city of Detroit, I take a certain amount of blame for the spiraling gunplay in the city,” said Logan. “But one of the things that you should realize and everyone in this room should realize is that guns are a national problem. The state of our mental health is a national problem. It’s one heck of a problem that we have as a society that we have to solve. America has a problem with guns, but the epicenter seems to be here in Detroit. So

the problem does not solely lay with the police department. It lies with the press.

It lies with the principal. It lies with the preacher and it lies with the parent. So we have got to start coming together as a community.”

Mayor Dave Bing indicated that he will listen to Chief Logan’s recommendation and hopefully be able to begin hiring soon, in an attempt to keep pace with a plethora of retirements on the horizon. In October of 2012, the Detroit Police Officers Association warned the people of Detroit and those who visited the city to enter at their own risk, saying that the “grossly understaffed” and overworked police force cannot adequately protect the public throughout the city.The numbers are certainly disappointing, because violent crime rates throughout the United States fell for the fifth consecutive year in 2011.

“We’ve just lost respect for each other, we’ve lost respect for life,” said Bing. “I don’t want to say that you can forget about this generation or the generation before us, but if we’re going to solve the problem, we’ve got to get into the heads and the minds and the hearts of our young people, and it’s going to take all of us to do that.”

Although the homicide rate is up, the number of major crimes in Detroit decreased 2.6 percent, according to preliminary police statistics. Burglaries dropped by nearly 13 percent, and rapes were down by almost 6 percent. Stolen cars increased by 6.4 percent — there were 12,798 in 2012, an average of 35 a day. Larcenies decreased slightly and robberies were up by nearly 2 percent.

“Detroit is America’s most violent city, its homicide rate is the highest in the country and yet the Detroit Police Department is grossly understaffed,” DPOA Attorney Donato Iorio said to WWJ in October of 2012. “The DPOA believes that there is a war in Detroit, but there should be a war on crime, not a war on its officers.”

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Teachers hold the key to our collective future our teachers teach and our children learn.”

By Tom Watkins Business owners know you must engage your employees in the change process.

We need to engage teachers in the process of reform to attract and retain the very best in the classroom.

Training our adults to be competitive on the world stage and educating more of our children to be able to collaborate and compete globally is the key to the country’s future prosperity.

Education holds the key to our collective futures. The city, state and nation that creates an effective system of learning will thrive. Our goal should be to make Michigan and America the brain bank of the world where everyone wants to come for deposits and withdrawals.

Yet, rather than seeking ways to develop a shared vision and common agenda to make this happen, political and ideological battles sharpen and continue to beat down the very people we need to build up — our teachers.

Teachers are key The voice of the classroom teacher must be heard, especially around issues of classroom discipline, instructional design and delivery above the reform chatter.

Our public schools are the true Statue of Liberty in this great country of

The State Board of Education, in an overt effort to engage teachers, invited the annually selected Michigan Teacher of the Year to have a seat, but more importantly, a voice at the State Board table. The teachers’ voice is always the last heard prior to policy being enacted.

Tom Watkins ours — taking the tired, hungry, poor kids who speak English as a second language, and children with disabilities to give them hope and opportunity. Our great teachers are the torches lighting the way for us all.

So as the new year moves forward, rather than hammering our teachers down, let’s snap that symbolic hammer in half and turn it instead into a ladder that helps lift up our schools, teachers, and most importantly, our children.

Rhetoric from the state and our nation’s capital have never educated a single child. It is our teachers who know their subject matter, who have a passion for teaching and learning, and who are provided the support and tools from administration that we must invest our resources and energy moving forward.

Do our schools and teachers need to constantly evolve, embrace change and adapt to a disruptive world where ideas and jobs can and do move around the globe effortlessly? Of course.

Yet, without the ability to tap the energy, talents, skills and passions of these great educators who are touching our collective futures every day, we are missing a major ingredient necessary to soar in the 21st century knowledge economy.

As Michigan’s state superintendent of schools (2001-2005), I had a simple measuring stick against which all decisions made by the Department of Education and State Board of Education were judged: “Show me how this helps

Research and common sense reinforce that quality teachers matter. In the education enterprise we must always remember that teachers have the lead role (along with parents and students). The teacher is Diana Ross and the rest within the school building are singing “dooopp.”

We need to actively seek ways to engage teachers and make them a key member of any education reform effort.

If you can read this, thank a teacher!

But if you are a policymaker (governor, legislator, school board member, superintendent, principal), consider reevaluating how you can harness the talents of the master link in the learning process — our great teachers.

The future of our state and nation is inextricable linked to the quality of our teachers.

Tom Watkins, Ednews. org’s 2010 Upton Sinclair Award winner, served as Michigan’s state superintendent of schools from 2001 to 2005. He is a strong advocate for public education and sensible school reforms.

He is a U.S./China business and educational consultant. He can be reached at tdwatkins88@ gmail.com.

Travel Leaders Group reveals business travel trends for 2013 Travel Leaders Group recently unveiled the top business travel trends for 2013 based on findings from its annual Travel Trends Survey. Nearly 80% of Travel Leaders Group’s business-focused travel agents are forecasting that clients will be traveling as much or more than last year (fewer than 10% of those polled say their clients will be traveling less), which paradoxically may prove to be the reason why the survey data also reveals that cost savings will be the most important factor for business travel clients in 2013.

Conducted November 19 – Dec. 16, 2012, these business travel trends are based on responses from 335 Travel Leaders Group owners, managers and frontline travel experts throughout the United States who identified that 50% or more of their portfolio consists of business travel clients.

“Despite the hype of the ‘fiscal cliff,’ our travel agents, nationwide, expressed optimism that Congress would come through at the 11th hour — which it did. Over 77% of our business travel experts polled indicated they were optimistic about their business heading into 2013, while another 18% stated they were neutral about the coming year,” stated Travel Leaders Group CEO Barry Liben. “Finding ways to trim costs and save on business travel are still paramount, and business travelers who use a corporate travel management company have a distinct advantage because they can travel more frequently as they contain costs on each individual trip.

“Among the many services we provide to our business travel clients, our survey data shows the top ones are ‘waivers and favors,’ assistance with tracking and using nonrefundable tickets, and financial reporting. The more closely we can work with our clients in following their corporate travel policies, the more beneficial it is to the client’s bottom line.”

Most Valuable Services for Business Travelers There are many advantages for companies and travelers who use a dedicated corporate travel management company to assist with their business travel needs. Travel Leaders Group business travel experts were asked, “Which of the following services will be most valuable to your clients in 2013?” Those polled

could choose up to three responses.

is typically the most expensive for hotel bookings and 60.8% stated it is most expensive when renting a car for their business travelers. The least expensive days were Tuesday for hotel bookings and Saturday for car rentals.

Other notable business travel trends • When asked, “Which of the following will be most important to your business travel clients in 2013?” the top three responses were: “Cost Savings” (42.1%), “Cost Control” (33.7%) and “Flexible Booking Options” for air/ car/hotel (13.4%).

• When asked, “What time of the day do business travel clients most prefer as their departure time for air travel to get to their destination?” a full 63% stated, “Before 9:00 a.m.” and 33.1% said “9:00 a.m.

– 12:00 p.m.”

• Most and Least Expensive Days for Hotel Bookings and Car Rentals: Monday appears to be the most expensive day for business travelers for both hotel reservations and car rentals. Nearly 51% of Travel Leaders Group business travel experts stated Monday

• When asked, “What time of the day do your business travel clients most prefer as their departure time for air travel to return home from a business trip?” 69% of Travel

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Leaders Group business travel experts stated “3:00 – 6:00 p.m.” while 15.2% said “12:00 – 3:00 p.m.”

These business trends are part of a comprehensive travel trends survey which included responses from 1,045 U.S.-based travel agency owners, managers and frontline travel agents from the flagship Travel Leaders brand, along with those affiliated with Travel Leaders Group’s Luxury Travel Network, Nexion, Results!

Travel, Travel Leaders Corporate, Tzell Travel Group and Vacation.com units.

For more information, visit www.travelleadersgroup.com.

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WHAT’S INSIDE sampson appointed (A-8) Mariners Inn recently announced the promotion of David Sampson to the position of chief executive officer. He has been with Mariners Inn since 2002 and held several positions.

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mubarak played religion card (A-2) Ousted Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak portrayed himself as a paradigm of stability in a country he once described as a “powder keg” of sectarian unrest. Yet far from promoting stability, his regime may have actually been the source of much of the religious strife.

Home repair Program (B-1): Rebuilding Together Detroit (RTD) is seeking applications from low-income homeowners in Southwest Detroit who are in need of minor home repair assistance.

Academic excellence honored (c-1): The Final Five Elite High School Football Players were recently lauded for their Athletic and Scholastic Excellence at the 20th Annual Franklin D. Watkins Awards held at the Omni Hotel in Los Angeles.

new tax credits (c-6): A new 25 percent state Small Business Investment Tax Credit, designed to encourage investments in start-up and early-stage Michigan technology companies, is aiming to help Michigan entrepreneurs secure capital and reduce risks associated with a new business or novel technology.

The motortown Revue (d-1): The Motortown Revue, the legendary shows that toured the nation by bus for almost the entirety of the ’60s, is recalled by someone who never missed a revue and, like so many other Motown fans, cherishes the memory.

Bankole Thompson CHRONICLE SENIOR EDITOR

The current state of the Detroit Public Schools is a mockery of Brown v Board of Education and it exposes the deep inequities in education.

Just because your child is not enrolled in the Detroit Public Schools does not mean you shouldn’t be concerned about the fate of the district before it heads toward implosion.

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like Detroit where a national reading report card places the city at number 56 out of the 75 largest metropolitan cities in the U.S. surveyed. That means literacy is shamefully low in the city and we are doing little or nothing to change the deplorable situation.

The latest study conducted by Central Connecticut State University, according to Data Driven Detroit, ranks the “culture and resources for reading” and it examines not wheth-

Your ability to get the Bankole Thompson best education for your child should not be based on geography, income or ethnicity but, rather, on the simple principle that every child regardless of their background should have an empowering education that equips them for a brighter future. Each child should have access to a meaningful education that would not leave them trailing behind in the dust children in Japan, India, China and other countries move ahead.

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Our readers take center stage on national issues Following his series of sit-down interviews with President Obama, and his successful 2010 interview-based book “Obama and Black Loyalty Vol. 1,” editor Bankole Thompson is upping the ante with the start of a new special report “White House XChange” March 30. The report will deal with issues tied to Detroit and Michigan that the Obama administration is tackling. It will introduce readers to issues raised in White House media conference calls. The report will invite our readers to weigh in on the debate about what the Obama administration is doing by having their opinions and views reflected in the report.

Detroit’s 56th place in the 2010 study is the same spot it occupied in a similar report in 2005. The highest rank the city got was 50th in 2007.

Washington, D.C., was rated the most well-read city in the nation and following that were Seattle, Minneapolis, Atlanta, Pittsburgh, San Francisco, St. Paul, Denver, Portland, St. Louis, Cincinnati and Boston.

Its is also noteworthy that these cities are among the most admired places in the nation and they have, in fact, become meccas for those seeking greener pastures. When young people are making the exodus from the state, more than likely they are moving to one of the cities mentioned in this report.

These cities are not only a paragon of a reading culture, they also offer other incentives that we are not offering in this city.

There is no possible way we can bank on attracting young families to the city if basic amenities like recreational centers are not available on a full scale.

When the educational system does not have the public confidence

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Accelerating the speed of business growth AT&T commits $19 billion to support area business growth

By C.L. Price Area businesses sloshing through Michigan’s sluggish economic recovery will soon receive much-needed infrastructure support, thanks to global communications leader AT&T’s network improvement plans announced last week.

The improvements — to expand backhaul, enable 4G speeds, increase mobile broadband capacity and upgrade hundreds of cell sites — are predicted to accelerate the pace of area business growth.

Why invest now?

Gov. Snyder keynotes Pancakes & Politics Gov. Rick Snyder kicked off the Michigan Chronicle’s Pancakes & Politics season at the Detroit Athletic Club on March 3 with a candid conversation built around reinventing Michigan. At left, Snyder chats with Curtis Ivery, Wayne County Community College Chancellor, Betty Brooks, community leader, and Shaun Wilson, Vice President, Director of Client and Community Relations, PNC Bank, and Ric DeVore, Regional President, PNC Bank. See page C-7 for photo highlights.

“We feel very confident about Detroit’s economic recovery,” stated Jim Murray, president of AT&T Michigan.

“As a consequence, we’re committed to making sizeable investments in this

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Wayne County Community College District (WCCCD) is the largest urban community college in Michigan, with record enrollment numbers for the spring 2011 semester.

Nearly 32,000 students registered for credit classes at all five of the District locations and online. Additionally, the District expects more than 40,000 non-credit students to register as well for a total of nearly 72,000 served in all programs.

WCCCD, the multi-campus district serving 32 communities in Southeast Michigan, has seen exponential growth as degree and certificate programs have been expanded, infrastructure improved, and

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investments in students, services and technologies increased.

“In this economy, post secondary education and training is the ticket to competing in today’s changing workforce.

Access to higher education-especially community colleges--is critical,” said Dr. Curtis Ivery, chancellor. “WCCCD is an integral economic and social catalyst to the health and welfare of this region and state.”

A recent economic impact study reported that WCCCD’s students generate more than $122 million in taxable income annually to the region and state. Every dollar that is invested in WCCCD returns

$22.80 in benefits to all Michigan residents.

Having been recognized as one of the fastest growing community colleges in the nation and the largest urban community college in Michigan, WCCCD was forced to cap enrollment during the spring 2010 semester. This year, under the direction of Dr. Ivery, WCCCD lifted the enrollment cap to make certain that no student was turned away in spite of WCCCD’s funding challenges.

WCCCD gives students the opportunity to train in emerging technology and high demand fields, allowing them to become competent professionals helping to position the

state for vibrant growth and a strong economic future.

Community colleges across the nation face difficult decisions in a climate of limited resources. The commitment of WCCCD in assuring that the doors to educational opportunities remain open is a direct result of the determination of faculty, staff and administrators.

“Our students and all those we serve need us to work as hard as we can for them. If we can’t be the difference between success and a future of limited options, we are not living up to the mission and vision of this institution,” said Dr. Ivery.

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Battle over DPS rages on We Detroiters believed that when we overwhelmingly voted with the rest of the state to repeal the hated emergency manager law, the war to save the Detroit Public Schools was won.

Not yet so — the governor has now approved nearduplicate legislation in unconstitutional contempt for the voters’ wishes.

Authority (EAA).

That organization was created as a ploy to plunder our district of its bricks and mortar and fields and equipment and ultimately to surrender those schools and their contents to chartering agencies. Another of my several immediate actions would have been to restore fair collective bargaining for all DPS employees. Now we need to continue to fight to enable me to make these things happen.

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If unchallenged, his new law will restore dictatorial power to his appointee in charge of DPS, and it In the will strip me meantime, of my BoardI continue designated every morning powers as into drive my terim superin- John Telford own car from my home tendent. to my office on the sixth Here is what the re- floor of the Fisher Buildvered long-time activ- ing where I hope you ist Helen Moore has to will write me or make say about the effects of an appointment at 873the EM law as it applies 3292 to visit me. to DPS: “Those who Although at 77 I am propounded this disenfranchising legislation now on a retiree’s fixed are the dragons that are income (other than roydevouring our children. alties from my books They have created a from Harmonie Park system that helps only Press), I purchase the the haves and destroys gasoline out of my own pocket to get me to the the have-nots.

Fisher Building, and to “The way to get equal get out to the schools education for all of our and to DPS functions. children is to put the Also, unlike my seven system back together CEO, EM and superinso that all children tendent predecessors of get treated the same. the past thirteen years, I These greedy, crooked have opted to receive no corporation heads have salary or district-subsiseized the power from dized car and driver and the people and are using bodyguard. our tax money for their Nor do I intend to reown purposes. ceive any of this after we “They have taken prevail in our righteous precious resources cause and I resultantly from our children to become sole chief of benefit themselves and DPS. This donation of to make sure there is my time and experience no accountability for is my way of giving back what they are doing. We to the DPS teachers and stand for our children coaches who are no to get an equal educa- longer with us who edution. They stand for cated and reformed me separate and unequal. so many years ago and If they wanted all our got me to Wayne State children educated, they on a track scholarship would not have come that ultimately landed up with a plan to divide me on the U.S. national the system while claim- team and totally transing reform. They would formed my life. have kept it together Those teachers and and moved it forward coaches were all about for the benefit of all the Detroit’s kids, and I am children.” all about Detroit’s kids It is time — indeed, — having been one. well past time — to With God’s and the Deheed the wise words troit community’s supof Helen Moore. When port, I intend to restore Public Act 4 was re- DPS to its old-time pealed, one of my first greatness.

Interim Superinpromised actions as superintendent of the tendent John Telford Detroit Public Schools currently shares leadwas to have initiated ership of the Detroit litigation to recover Per- Public Schools with shing and Denby and Emergency Financial the new $50.5 million Manager Roy Roberts.

Mumford and the other Get his books at www. twelve schools which A l i f e o n t h e R U N . c o m , then-Emergency Man- hear him Sundays at ager Roy Roberts turned 4:30 on Newstalk1200, over to the state’s Edu- and write him at drcational Achievement johntelford@mi.rr.com.

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Blackstone LaunchPad helps Detroit business fill school bus safety need Larry Cunningham is on a mission. After retiring from 27 years of service in Wayne County’s Sheriff’s department, the 50-year-old former deputy is embarking on a new career providing safe, reliable Yellow Bus transportation to elementary and middle school students with an emphasis on preventing bullying.

Cunningham conceived the idea for his new business, STEP-UP TRANSPORTATION, after becoming school bus certified and working as a substitute teacher with the Detroit Public Schools. He plans to employ retired law-enforcement trained bus drivers to transport students to and from school and field trips in a safe, non-threatening environment. “In addition to making the students feel comfortable, our goal is to offer peace of mind to parents, knowing that their kids are safe commuting back and forth to school,” said Cunningham.

STEP-UP TRANSPORTATION busses will also be equipped with a “bullybox.” Located next to the driver, the “bully-box” will allow children who feel threatened to enclose a note explaining their problems. The driver will immediately alert the school, so that a quick and effective solution can be implemented.

“Bullying normally starts in the community and travels to school. It often happens over the summer and escalates at school,” said Cunningham. The company will also have pre-determined safety stops along the route, such as a post office or police station, where it’s safe for students to ask for help and children are far less likely to face trouble.

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“We can go a little bit further than just dropping kids off at school and help combat bullying by extending education and training inside the school bus system, as we promote positive adult role models,” said Cunningham.

Cunningham had a great idea when he envisioned his business, but he needed the resources to get started. As a Walsh College alumnus and current student, Cunningham was able to find those resources through the Blackstone Launchpad Program.

Cunningham is in the MBA program at Walsh College and has a finance degree with a banking endorsement from the business college.

Through a grant from the Blackstone Charitable Foundation, in cooperation with the New Economy Initiative and Automation Alley - Blackstone LaunchPad was setup as a way for Walsh College students and alumni and Wayne State students to attain the needed resources to start their own business with the help and insight of experienced p r o f e s s i o n a l s . B l a c k stone LaunchPad pro-

vides new venture assessment, mentoring and networking services to the campus community to encourage entrepreneurship as a viable career path.

Cunningham credits the Blackstone LaunchPad program as being instrumental in igniting his new venture. “LaunchPad helped me organize my business plan and directed me on how to obtain my licensing from the state. They connected me to business coaching at Automation Alley; where they critiqued me and gave me ideas on how to keep my business afloat,” said Cunningham.

The new entrepreneur is optimistic about the future of his second career. He plans to have a celebration this month to mark the opening of his own business, STEP-UP TRANSPORTATION. With a successful first career on the books, Cunningham shares some words of wisdom about starting his new venture. “The worst thing you can do is have a dream and not fulfill it. I tell everyone at Walsh College to go and use Blackstone LaunchPad resources. You’ll be very happy, I am.”

Imagine Amazon sending you business leads regularly and even paying you to do so. Why would they do it?

“The twist is to use them as a generation system for sales leads.”

The audience is huge – Kindle is no longer just for people who purchase Kindle tablets. Amazon has also written Kindle Reader applications for every major smartphone, tablet, and computer including the Android phone or tablet, iPad, iPhone, Mac, Windows 8 PC or tablet, BlackBerry, and Windows Phone 7, Santoro says.

“Most businesses hesitate to use Kindle to generate sales leads because they think they need to write an actual book,” says Rizzo, “But that’s not true. You can write and publish short reports -- as long as the content is original, of high quality and does not violate its Terms of Service (TOS), Amazon will publish your material.”

The key is to include a compelling free offer with a strong call to action and a link to a lead capture page – the page on your website where people can sign up for more information, special offers, your newsletter, etc.

And Amazon will even help market your book – for free!

When a new Kindle book is approved and published, Amazon will: • Feature it in their new releases section.

• Email their customer base announcing it to those who have previously purchased a Kindle book in that genre.

• Offer the Kindle KDP

ing at the historic Lorraine Motel — site of the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

DMC Children’s Hospital of Michigan Diversity & Inclusion Committee will host its annual Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration Monday, Jan. 21, at DMC Children’s Hospital of Michigan 3901 Beaubien, featuring keynote Juanita Moore, president and CEO, Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History. The event starts at 1 p.m.

• Allow customers to highlight, make notes, and share your book’s content via Twitter and other social networks.

“By enrolling in the free Kindle KDP Select Program, you give Amazon exclusivity on a renewable 90-day basis,” Santoro says. “This program allows their readers to borrow your book from the Kindle Owners’ Lending Library, and when they do, Amazon pays you a royalty, as well as for book sales. However, the real benefit is that Amazon provides five days per quarter to give your book away for free.”

Why give your Kindle book away for free?

“Because, as a lead generation system, you want as many individuals as possible to download your Kindle book and visit your lead capture page, Santoro explains.

Additionally, Amazon views each book download as a vote and rewards your book with higher page ranking. The more downloads, the better the chance of an Amazon Page 1 placement.

To create your Kindle report: • Use Amazon to determine what current Kindle books or paperbacks are published about your topic.

• Decide what information will be helpful to your potential customers.

Make sure it is original and offers value. Avoid information that is easily found on the Internet.

• Create your report in Microsoft Word and include images if appropriate.

• Include your call to action – a message that prompts readers to visit

your website -- and link to your website’s lead capture page.

• Create a cover graphic.

Publishing on Kindle is fairly simple: • Go to http://kdp.amazon. com and sign up for a free Kindle account.

• Watch the “How To” Kindle publishing video.

• Fill out the Amazon Author Page to track your statistics.

• Reference the book on your website and link to your Amazon book page.

• Announce it on your Facebook, LinkedIn, Google+ and Twitter accounts.

“The goal is not to sell books, but rather to generate leads from Amazon’s huge customer base,” Rizzo says. An additional benefit is that you will differentiate yourself from the competition by being a published author.

If your content is excellent and helpful, you will also build trust which will help to increase sales from these new leads.

John S. Rizzo obtained his bachelor’s degree in business administration and spent three years as a consultant for Amazon’s publishing group. He has assisted several businesses with digital marketing strategy and has served in leadership positions for multiple initiatives for the Charleston, S.C., Chamber of Commerce.

V. Michael Santoro has more than 10 years in the digital marketing field. His prior experience includes international senior marketing positions in technology fields. He has a master’s degree and was an adjunct professor with the computer science department of Western Connecticut State University.

Additional highlights for the M.L.K. celebration at the DMC Children’s Hospital of Michigan will include performances from the Detroit Symphony Orchestra and Sphinx artists, and dance performances from the Marygrove Dancers of Marygrove College.

“Looking Back to Move Forward” is the theme for this year’s event, and friends, supporters, former patients and families are welcome.

Exploring links between sustainable transportation and livable communities Two research teams funded by the University of Michigan’s Graham Environmental Sustainability Institute will spend the next 15 months investigating how different transportation policies, technologies and consumer travel choices can impact the sustainability and livability of communities.

The first project, “Consumer uptake of seamless, multi-model mobility (the new mobility grid): Policy decisions and information & communication technology affecting behavior of users and decision makers” is led

by Richard Gonzalez and David Chock of the U-M Institute for Social Research.

With initial research being conducted in Portland, Ore., Santa Monica, Calif., and Los Angeles, this team is exploring how travel behavior choices among transportation users can impact greenhouse gas emissions, particularly under different policy strategies.

“We really are leaving no stone unturned in terms of examining how different end-user behaviors, travel options, transportation policy changes and technology innovations can advance the sustainability and livability of communities,” Gonzalez said.

The second project, “An integrated assessment of the potential for innovative, disruptive

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Moore to keynote Children’s Hospital civil rights celebration

Prior to her current positiion, Moore served as founding executive director of the National Civil Rights Museum in Memphis where she oversaw the construction of the museum’s open-Juanita Moore

How you can use Kindle to generate free business leads “Amazon is desperate for reading material and you can publish your content for free as Kindle books,” says V. Michael Santoro, a managing partner with John S. Rizzo of Globe On-Demand, an internet technology company. The two are also the co-authors of, “Niche Dominance: Creating Order out of your Digital Marketing Chaos,” (www.

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applications of technology in personal vehicles to advance livability and sustainability,” is led by Steve Underwood of the Connected Vehicle Proving Center and University of Michigan-Dearborn.

This research team is examining how a new generation of technologyrich electric vehicles, in combination with transportation policy changes, can significantly affect the “three Es” of sustainability: environment, economics and equity.

“There are several conspicuous problems associated with today’s reliance on automobiles, including air pollution, oil dependence, motor-vehicle fatalities and injuries, roadway congestion and more,” Underwood said.

“We envision a personal urban mobility system that is free from these problems.”

The Graham Institute provided each research team with $150,000 last month. The projects are to be completed by the end of 2013.

Both teams are employing a multi-stakeholder, solutions-focused research methodology called integrated assessment that, according to John Callewaert, director of integrated assessment at the Graham Institute, is uniquely suited for exploring this subject.

“These research teams are working with a very robust cohort of govern-

ment officials, industry experts, city planners, non-profit organizations and other stakeholders to investigate the issue from virtually all perspectives,” Callewaert said.

Officials in Los Angeles involved in the integrated assessment say they look forward to using the recommendations researchers are developing.

“This integrated assessment focuses on the role that information technology and policy can play in providing more seamless and integrated multi-model transportation with the goal of achieving more livable communities,” said Jay Kim, principal transportation engineer for the city of Los Angeles. “This collaboration will provide us with the needed policy and implementation tools for addressing livability challenges in the city of Los Angeles.”

These two integrated assessments were selected from five planninggrant projects that each received $20,000 from the Graham Institute last year.

To learn more about the Livable Communities through Sustainable Transportation initiative, or about the integrated assessment research process, visit the “Problem Solving” section of the Graham Institute website at http://www.graham. umich.edu or call John Callewaert at (734) 6153752.

Beaumont Children’s Hospital opens Pediatric Epilepsy Clinic Beaumont Children’s Hospital has expanded its neuroscience services with a Pediatric Epilepsy Clinic, offering treatment options and services for infants, children and teens with seizures and epilepsy. The clinic offers comprehensive evaluations and schedules tests, including MRIs, PET scans and EEGs, for those with mild to complex forms of epilepsy.

About 50,000 new cases of childhood epilepsy are diagnosed each year. Epilepsy is a neurological condition in the brain that makes a person more susceptible to having seizures. A seizure occurs when parts of the brain receive a burst of abnormal signals that temporarily interrupts normal brain function.

When a person has two or more seizures, he or she is considered to have epilepsy. The clinic, located in suite 302 of the Medical Office Building at Beaumont Hospital, Royal Oak, specializes in helping patients with drugresistant epilepsy. To schedule an appointment, call (248) 551-3302.

“We treat all forms of epilepsy ranging from mild – when seizures are controlled with medications or not recognized, to catastrophic – when a person is having a seizure and is unresponsive. About one-third of patients with the severe form of epilepsy will not respond to any medication,” says Daniel Arndt, M.D., director of the Pediatric Epilepsy Clinic at Beaumont Children’s Hospital. I In addition to Dr. Arndt, a pediatric epileptologist who specializes in the treatment of epilepsy in children, the Pediat-

ric Epilepsy Clinic works with a highly-trained, multidisciplinary team of specialists.

The staff includes: pediatric neurologists, pediatric neuroscience nurses, pediatric EEG technologists and a nurse coordinator who schedules testing and followup care. The clinic’s staff also collaborates with several specialties including pediatric neurosurgery, ophthalmology, radiology and physical, occupational and speech therapy.

With the unpredictability of epilepsy and the challenge it can present to some families, the clinic provides resources and guidance for parents and caregivers in a single

location.

“We are providing a higher level of epilepsy care. We are using the most advanced EEG and imaging technologies available and working hand-in-hand with pediatric neurosurgeons,” explains Dr. Arndt. “The goal is to give our patients and families freedom from seizures and provide them with an excellent quality of life. We want patients to feel ‘normal’ again.”

For more information about Beaumont neuroscience services, visit http:// neurosciences.beaumont. edu/. For more information about Beaumont Children’s Hospital, visit http://beaumontchildrenshospital.com/.

WSU researcher working to make intersections safer A Wayne State University researcher is part of a federally funded effort that could lead to safer intersections on our nation’s roadways.

Timothy Gates, assistant professor of civil and environmental engineering in the College of En-

gineering, is the lead WSU investigator on a National Cooperative Highway Research Program project that will better illustrate the connection between roadway safety and available sight distance at intersections controlled by stop signs on the minor streets.

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Streaming was just the start. Now, Netflix, Hulu and Crackle are giving the networks (and cable stations) something to worry about.

The production values are as good or better than what you see on TV there’s plenty more to come. It makes plenty of sense as more people are watching online programming, a vehicle for original content needed to find a home. Grab your mobile devices or your smart TV remote because the future is officially here. – Cornelius A. Fortune, managing editor

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Stan ‘The Man’ does it again It’s almost become a cliché to call Stan Lee the father of the modern superhero, but look around you, and all the major movies released by Hollywood these days are based from ideas he worked out way back in the ‘60s with such artists as Jack Kirby, Steve Ditko, and others.

“Stan Lee’s The Academy of Heroes” seems to pick up where his old Sci-Fi Channel reality show “Who Wants to be a Superhero?” left off in 2007.

This time, though, his show is being broadcast on YouTube under its own channel, dubbed Stan Lee’s World of Heroes. Viewers subscribe to the channel for updated content. YouTube describes it as a “channel for all things related to the hero lifestyle and enthusiast culture.” It’ll feature scripted and unscripted shows as well as pop culture news and comedy.

“Stan Lee’s The Academy of Heroes” spotlights real people donning costumes to make their world a better place. You also have appearances by David Hasselhoff, and former TV Blade, Kirk “Sticky Fingaz” Jones.

“House of Cards,” a Netflix exclusive TV series starring Kevin Spacey will premiere next month.

YouTube has tagged Stan Lee for a new channel called Stan Lee’s World of Heroes, which has original programming.

Spoilers with Kevin Smith

Crackle is available on iPads and other mobile devices as well as smart TVs. It’s free (though not commercial free) and offers movies, TV shows and other programming.

And if you’re looking for Black superheroes on the channel, look no further than DangerMan, a guest on “Stan Lee’s The Academy of Heroes.”

DangerMan the Urban Super Hero is an advocate for children’s rights and through a national program DangerMan promotes literacy, safety

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UFO Interactive Announces Johnny Impossible for Nintendo eShop on Nintendo 3DS Johnny Returns, This Time in a 2D Stealth-Action Platform Adventure UFO Interactive Games, Inc., a publisher of interactive entertainment, announced that Johnny Impossible for the Nintendo 3DS is scheduled now available on the Nintendo eShop.

Johnny returns for an all-new adventure, and this time he is going in deep...deep undercover as secret agent Johnny Impossible.

“The name’s Johnny, Johnny Impossible.”

It’s a MEGA CRISIS! The Mr. Wang Gang is up to another diaboli-

infiltrate Mr. Wang’s facilities undetected. Sneak past the security cameras, avoid laser traps, confront enemy robots, and hack into the system in order to save the city from Mr. Wang’s crazy super-laser in outer space! Race against the clock before the super-laser is activated and Solid City is turned into a smoking pile of rubble! cal scheme. This time Mr. Wang has mounted a super-laser on a satellite in space, and it’s aimed directly at Solid City! Take control of the Johnny the super-spy and stop Mr. Wang Gang’s ambitious evil plans!

In Johnny Impossible the player must utilize all of the tools and weaponry at their disposal to help Johnny

Features ■ The third exciting installment in the ‘Johnny’ saga ■ Highly intense and highly addictive cross-genre 2D platforming stealth action ■ Collect a wide range of stealthy

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Windows Phone 8 choices expand with Verizon There is no “one size fits all” when it comes to mobile operating systems (OS) and the announcement

by Microsoft of Windows Phone 8 gives customers another choice when shopping for a new Verizon Wireless smartphone.

come in so you see which apps are calling for your attention. The tunes that you rock out to and the games that keep you busy go where you go with Xbox Music and Xbox Games. All of this together is what makes the phone, you.

This new OS brings new features to explore and new ways to further personalize your smartphone.

Windows Phone 8 will debuted on a number of new smartphones, which means you never need to relearn the OS when moving from one smartphone to another.

Managing data use on a Windows Phone 8 from Verizon Wireless is just as simple and helps relieve the stress of data use. The Data Sense app, exclusive for a limited time, tells you how much data you have used in a given time period. It also allows you to set data limits and even reports how much data each app has used. Data Sense doesn’t stop there, as it has a suite of features like Wi-Fi mapping to find hotspots and compressing images and HTML while browsing the Web to help reduce data usage.

The Start screen is always the most personal screen and LIVE TILES at work.

Live Tiles on Windows Phone 8 makes that personalization possible.

Live Tiles let you create a Start screen that’s exactly right for you by letting you not only pin apps but also people, bookmarks and more all on one screen to view at a glance. The Live Tiles and Apps pinned on the Start screen animate and update as notifications

Work and play don’t need to be separated with Windows Phone 8. Having Microsoft Office Mobile built-in means using Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote from your phone to create, edit and view documents.

Windows Phone 8 takes the mobile office farther with SkyDrive integration, including 7 GB of free space, for storing pictures, files and data on the cloud and built-in support for Office 365 for email and SharePoint access.

A brand new OS needs a powerful network to run on, and with 4G LTE coverage in more than 410 markets across the United States, Windows Phone 8 customers will be browsing and streaming at blazing speeds. That same Verizon Wireless advantage also includes access to the exclusive apps like VZ Navigator for turn-by-turn navigation and maps with millions points of interest, Backup Assistant Plus to store your contacts and sports apps including one for football aficionado.

Johnny Impossible From page B-1 tools and weaponry to aid in level progression ■ Sneak, grapple, crawl, cling (yes, cling) and dash through ‘Metroidvania’ style levels ■ Packed with fun retrostyle LCD hacking mini games ■ Beautiful hand-drawn pixel artwork A gameplay trailer for Johnny Impossible can be viewed on the UFO Interactive YouTube Channel: http://youtu.be/ cVSAbwhOGkU. For more information on Johnny Impossible, please visit the official UFO Interactive Games site at www.ufointeractivegames.com, follow them on Twitter @UFO_ Interactive, and like UFO Interactive on Facebook.

VERIZON’S Nokia Lumia is one of the new Windows phones.

Based in Pomona, CA, UFO Interactive Games is a third party licensee of Nintendo of America, Sony Computer Entertainment America and Microsoft, whose function is in development of original, mass-market gaming

software. UFO Interactive Games is distributed exclusively by Tommo, Inc. For more information, please visit www.ufointeractivegames.com.

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and good health for the children in urban and under-served communities across America. He empowers children to live their best life through education and by living a healthy lifestyle. DangerMan is also involved with the “Fun, Fitness and Good Health” national program sponsored by the Aetna Foundation.

DangerMan Entertainment will release its first action/adventure film “Girls Aren’t for Sale,” the pilot for the upcoming web-series about human trafficking on Jan. 10.

For more information, visit www.thedangerman. com or www.youtube.com/ urbansuperhero.

Visit Stan Lee’s World of Heroes at www.youtube. com/user/worldofheroes.

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Ways to improve health We know high-fat, high-sugar foods cause obesity and promote heart disease, but most people don’t realize that sugar and fat also contribute to conditions like osteoporosis by weakening bones.

If this trend continues, this overlooked ‘silent robber’ will begin to cripple large numbers of at-risk baby boomers, say researchers at the University of Michigan and the Alberta Bone and Joint Health Institute.

While this high-fat, high-sugar diet trend and the subsequent risk of osteoporosis are climbing frighteningly fast, there’s hope, says Ron Zernicke, dean of U-M’s School of Kinesiology and a

professor of orthopedic surgery and biomedical engineering. The medical community and the public can reverse this trend.

Demographics in the U.S. demand action now, said Cy Frank, executive director of the Alberta Bone and Joint Health Institute and an orthopedic surgeon practicing in Calgary.

now 66 — have reached the stage in life when they’re most susceptible to bone and joint disorders,” Zernicke said.

Diet and exercise are primary preventions against osteoporosis, Frank said.

Baby boomers, he says, were the first generation weaned on fast food, creating a dietary legacy of high fat and sugar.

Today, about a quarter of America’s twoto-five-year-olds and a third of its schoolage children, including adolescents, are obese or overweight.

The child’s parents and grandparents are past the rapid bone-building stage, but secondary stages of prevention exist through middle and late adulthood.

Again, healthy diet, exercise and medication to slow bone loss, if necessary, can reduce the likelihood of osteoporosis fractures. A healthy, balanced diet includes vegetables, fruit and whole grains, and limits saturated fats, salt and sugar.

“Boomers themselves — the oldest

But prevention goes beyond diet and

exercise. It’s critical to manage the environment that influences food choices.

For instance, California banned trans fats in restaurants, and New York City requires restaurants to post calories and prices in the same font size on menu boards. Eliminating junk food from places charged with promoting healthy lifestyles — schools, recreational centers, hospitals — would also help.

“It’s imperative that we change this tide, beginning today,” Zernicke said.

“Implementing measures and policies to protect our bones and our health can improve the quality of life for millions of people.”

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Time to attack gerrymandering in Michigan

By Phil Power Most people agree that our politics and government today are too often severely dysfunctional. And there’s one big reason why: The taproot of much of all this can be traced to our severely gerrymandered state legislative and congressional districts.

For a glimpse of just how powerful this is, all you have to do is glance at November’s national election results.

Nationwide, state legislators are required to draw new boundary lines every 10 years, after the census results are in. This time, Democrats mainly got the short end of the stick.

That’s because Republicans made big gains in most state legislatures in the 2010 election.

That meant they Phil Power controlled the process of drawing district lines in most states – and they made sure they drew those lines to their advantage.

Here’s proof: Final results show that nationwide, Democratic House candidates this year won 59.6 million votes to only 58.2 million for Republicans. Yet Republicans emerged with solid control of the U.S. House of Representatives by 234 seats to 201 seats.

This was also reflected — perhaps even more so — in state legislative returns In Michigan, where President Obama won by 9.5 percent, Republican legislative candidates drew only 45 percent of the popular vote but won 54 percent of the seats in the State House.

That’s not to imply Democrats would do things differently. In fact, in Illinois, one of a minority of states where legislative Democrats controlled reapportionment, GOP candidates for Congress won 45 percent of the vote but only a third of the seats. In Maryland, another state where Democrats drew the lines, Republicans won 35 percent, but only one of eight House seats.

“Gerrymandering” is a well-established political concept.

The term goes back to 1812, when the Boston Gazette coined the term to

mock then-Gov. Elbridge Gerry’s attempts to manipulate Massachusetts senatorial districts to favor his party.

An editorial cartoon showed how the boundary lines had twisted the districts into something resembling a salamander.

But while there’s always been some of this, it has gotten worse and more blatant. The dean of the U. S. House of Representatives, Michigan’s John D. Dingell (D-Dearborn), told me that he thinks there are now only around 35 or so truly competitive congressional districts in the U. S. Experts in Lansing figure maybe only 20 percent of Michigan’s legislative districts are evenly balanced.

Nate Silver, the election polling expert at the New York Times, explains that “In 1992, there were 103 members of the United States House of Representatives elected from might be called swing districts.

He estimates there are only 35 such districts remaining.

Much of the time, gerrymandering has been used to protect incumbents.

As an example, take the 11thCongressional district, which includes communities in Western Wayne and Southern Oakland Counties. It was explicitly designed as a Republican district to protect former Congressman Thaddeus McCotter. Once regarded as a rising star of his party, McCotter resigned last year after a scandal in which his staff submitted fraudulent nominating petitions.

Trouble is, fewer competitive districts tend to mean greater political polarization. Sometimes that’s the natural result of population trends that tend to clump people who think and vote alike into the same areas. Jowei Chen, an assistant professor of political science at the University of Michigan, calls it “unintentional gerrymandering,” because it’s based on demographic patterns that lead many Democrats to choose to live in densely packed urban areas.

Trouble is, greater polarization means greater polarization and less partisanship, and a political system that’s can’t get things done to benefit our state or country.

Lawmakers elected from gerrymandered, one-party districts have no incentive to compromise with others for the general good. In fact, as representatives from lopsided partisan districts, their main incentive is to vote the attitudes of their constituents no matter what.

What does right-to-work really mean?

By Chris Malagisi At this point in time, most people are probably familiar with the right-towork drama that ensued recently in Michigan.

Through a debate with a staunch pro-union friend of mine, it dawned on me that perhaps there were some people who might not actually understand what it means to be pro right-to-work.

At first glance, how could anyone be against a right to work? Who would be against someone working as the term itself invokes, a pro-freedom sentiment found in the American democratic tradition. right-to-work advocates believe these laws promote job creation, generate investment and allow workers to choose whether or not to join a union. Opponents believe they are injurious to unions by reducing enrollment and dues, tends to decrease wages and overly favors employers.

Who’s right?

Studies show states like Michigan and others in the Midwest have some of the highest compulsory union enrollments yet also have high unemployment rates, compared to states with right-to-work laws. On its face, this notion would seem counter-intuitive as one might infer union membership implies protracted job security. These same studies also point out that non right- to-work states

pay their workers a little less but do provide more stability in the long run because they base their hiring decisions more so on demand, supply and the current economic conditions.

So who’s right?

Many justify their pro or con arguments based on the results of the laws as opposed to what is constitutionally just. To better understand what it means to be right-towork, it is important to understand its actual constitutional heritage and the underlying free market principles that validate its position.

The US Constitution’s First Amendment guarantees the right of freedom of association and implies a freedom of non-association as well. The Fifth amendment also guarantees private ownership of property and the principle of free enterprise. Understanding these rights, workers should therefore be able to join or not join unions and employers should have a substantial say in the way their business, or property, operates.

This notion changed substantially after the National Labor Relations Act, or Wagner Act, passed in congress and was signed into law by FDR in 1935.

The new law purported to protect the rights of workers to organize labor unions, engage in collective bargaining - the ability to bargain on behalf of all union employees,

striking as necessary to support their demands, and forced individuals to join a union whether they wanted to or not. In reality, the new law diminished fundamental private property rights for employers and their businesses and forced compulsory union membership and dues on employees.

The law was immediately controversial and unions steadily began to abuse their new powers throughout the country.

Through intimidation, overreaching demands on management, compulsory membership and dues, and dispersing money to political candidates, whether or not the actual union membership endorsed them or not, became the new normal.

By 1947, one out of every fourteen workers were on strike. This eventually sparked the Labor-Management Relations Act, or Taft-Harley Act, which passed overwhelmingly in a bipartisan manner in congress in 1947, even overriding a presidential veto from President Truman.

As the country continues its economic drift, it’s important we do not forget our constitutional freedoms and rights, even in this ever-changing globalized world with shifting economic landscapes and priorities. Both sides want a more prosperous and productive economy for all but it must begin with a right to work.

Faith in values: Resolve to end homelessness in 2013

By Sally Steenland

It’s the beginning of the year, and resolutions are fresh. Exercise more.

Lose weight. Spend less.

Reduce stress. Gym memberships jump in January, and so do hopes that weight-loss programs and yoga classes will reshape our bodies and minds.

But new ear’s resolutions don’t come cheap.

According to market research corporation Marketdata Enterprises, Americans spent $62 billion in 2011 on “health club memberships, weight-loss programs, exercise tapes, diet sodas and the like,” despite the fact that many of these products don’t work. And even though Americans spend close to $19 billion a year on gym memberships alone, four out of five of those memberships are not used regularly.

It’s clear that we’ve got a fairly large gap between resolutions and reality.

Certainly, losing weight and getting fit are admirable goals, but there are cheaper ways to do it, and there are better ways to spend our money.

So here’s an idea, one that avoids false promises and fulfills another top new year’s resolution: to help others. Let’s take some of those dollars that we pay out on fake science and so-called miracle weight-loss products and spend them on a worthwhile alternative.

Let’s tackle a big problem — say, homelessness in America.

To many, homelessness is an impossible problem, too unwieldy and expensive.

But ending homelessness has a price tag, just like those gizmos purporting to shed pounds and gym memberships. According to the Department of Housing and Urban Development,

or HUD, it would cost $20 billion to end homelessness. That’s less than half of what we spend each year on weight loss and self-improvement.

Ending homelessness is not an impossible task.

One of the first steps in solving any problem is to actually believe it can be solved. The second step is to break it down into manageable tasks. Third, get started. Fourth, keep at it.

The good news is that the number of people living on America’s streets has dropped by 17 percent since 2007.

The number of homeless veterans has dropped by 17 percent since 2009 as well.

These decreases are partly because of the outstanding work of service providers who know that not all homeless people are the same. Some are severely disabled and need long-term housing and good medical care, but many of those who become homeless lost their job in the Great Recession of 2007–2009 or got sick and fell behind on rent or house payments. What they need is help getting back on their feet.

Local service agencies provide them with rapid “rehousing” so they don’t end up on the street, help with security deposits and a few months’ rent, and job assistance if needed.

Such targeted aid is usually enough to bring folks back to a place where they’re self-sufficient and can take care of themselves.

Much of the progress that’s been made in communities is due to federal funding — including $1.5 billion in stimulus money for homeless prevention and rapid rehousing programs. That effort — along

with funding from the Department of Housing and Urban Development and the Veterans Administration—rebuts the myth that government programs do little if any good because they encourage dependency and a victim mentality in recipients. In These are our fellow citizens who pay taxes and work hard but have hit a rough patch and need a temporary hand to get back on their feet.

Steve Berg, vice president for programs and policy at the National Alliance to End Homelessness, suggests ways that all of us can help. “Pay your taxes and don’t complain,” he said in an interview. The money is going to programs that work.

“Volunteer,” he added.

“Make a donation. Talk to the influential people in your community to see if you’ve got a coordinated approach to homelessness. Find out if the numbers are going down. And don’t stop asking questions until you get good answers.”

Remember, Berg says, we are the richest country in the world. Nobody should have to live on the street. Not only is it morally wrong but it ends up costing us more in the long run.

Speaking of costs, I’d like to add that the $20 billion price tag for ending homelessness comes to less than half of what we spend each year on our pets. er.

To me it’s a no-brainHappy new year!

Sally Steenland is director of the Faith and Progressive Policy Initiative at the Center for American Progress.

Steenland, a best-selling author, former newspaper columnist and teacher.

NRA misfires again

By George Curry

likely to occur away from school.”

When the National Rifle Association finally revealed recently what it was willing to do to help curb gun violence in schools, it fired a blank.

It added, “Even gun advocate Gary Kleck noted in his 1997 book Targeting Guns: Firearms and Their Control that “Both gun carrying and gun violence are thus phenomena almost entirely confined to the world outside schools.”

No political rant would be complete these days without an attack on President Obama. And when LaPierre fired at the White House, he was again off target.

In his remarks, LaPierre said, “Ladies and gentlemen, there is no national, one-size-fits-all solution to protecting our children. But do know this president zeroed out school emergency planning grants in last year’s budget, and scrapped ‘Secure Our Schools’ policing grants in next year’s budget.”

Josh Sugarmann, executive director of the Violence Policy Center and a native of Newtown, Conn., said the NRA’s plan to arm teachers won’t work.

“Politicians pass laws for Gun-Free School Zones. They issue press releases bragging about them. They post signs advertising them. And in so doing, they tell every insane killer in America that schools are their safest place to inflict maximum mayhem with minimum risk,” NRA Executive Vice President Wayne LaPierre said at a so-called news conference in which he refused to take questions.

As 20 innocent kids, most of them 6-yearsold, and six caring adults were being buried last week, the best idea the NRA had to offer was for us to begin arming teachers with guns. That’s the same feeble, ineffective “answer” LaPierre provided five years ago after the Virginia Tech shootings.

Instead of making productive suggestions in the aftermath of 26 deaths in Newtown, Conn., LaPierre went on to blame Congress, President Obama, the media, video game manufacturers – everyone but the NRA, which thinks it should be alright for citizens to own an arsenal of automatic weapons.

George Curry LaPierre failed to note that many schools already have armed guards on site. Columbine High School, for example, had a two armed policemen stationed in the school in 1999, yet 15 people were killed and 23 injured.

The NRA executive sought to belittle gun-free school safety zones. But Media Matters, the watchdog group, pointed out: “In fact, primary and secondary schools – where firearms are typically prohibited – are much safer environments for young people than the surrounding communities, even taking into account horrific school shootings.

Since the Department of Justice Bureau of Justice Statistics began recording homicides at schools in the 1992-3 school year, the proportion of youth homicides that occurred at school has never exceeded 2 percent of total youth homicides. Suicide was also much more

“The NRA plan, which cynically allows for the continued sale of the assault weapons and highcapacity ammunition magazines marketed by its gun industry corporate donors has already been tried, and it did not work,” he said.

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In 2013, don’t have a breakdown, have a breakthrough

By Sheila Thomas I must say that 2012 was the best year of my life. Now when I say that you might think that I have all the material possessions that I desire, but to be honest with you, when it comes to financial prosperity, I am not even halfway there.

The reason 2012 was so great is that my prior struggle, for at least the past 20 years, had been to discover my purpose.

Finally in 2012, I was blessed to have been a vessel through which God manifested Prayer and Praise magazine.

Christmas gifts were loaded into the car, ready for delivery. Alexis Kerr is pictured.

Victorious Women: 12th annual Christmas blessing event Dr. Victoria Jones, founder and president of Victorious Women Ministries, is committed to making a positive difference in the community.

On Saturday, Dec. 15, Tapestry Banquet Hall in Southfield was filled with the spirit of Christmas as 75 participants provided gifts to support families in need.

There were bikes, dolls, MP3 players, toy cars and trucks, games, and clothing for families in Detroit.

Those families are identified by Homes for Black Children (HBC), a non-profit intervention agency that focuses on family preservation. Janet McDonald of HBC manages the program to identify families in the community who are in need of support during the Christmas season.

Victorious Women Ministries identified individuals who were willing to be a blessing to others — thus the name of the event, “A Christmas Blessing,” was born.

The event began in 2000 with one family and has continuously expanded to support additional families. This year marked the 12th annual event which blessed 90 children and 34 families.

Other organizations joined forces with Victorious Women to support the effort. Under the direction of Alexis Kerr, several General Motors employees provided gifts.

They worked together to purchase and wrap toys and clothing.

“We want to make a difference in the community in which we operate, especially at Christmas time,” Kerr said.

In addition, Rev. George Wilkinson of Word of Life Christian Church in Flint sponsored several chil-

Two children “test drive” bicycles. dren and families through his congregation.

Several members of Rev. Wilkinson’s church attended the event, demonstrating their commitment to helping the community. Rev. Wilkinson delivered a powerful Christmas message that inspired all.

Goodwill Industries of Greater Detroit also provided support this year by transporting the gifts from the event to Homes for Black Children.

Transporting the gifts had in previously years been a challenge for the ministry. Karen Sanford, vice president of Human Resources, stepped forward and offered to intervene to support delivery of the gifts.

Alvertia Poole of Flat Rock encouraged her book club to get involved and they sponsored several families.

Ramona Risker of Farmington Hills partnered with family and friends to sponsor several families.

There were many other individuals who came out to support the Christmas Blessing event.

Piper McElroy of Grand Blanc (daughter of Dr. Jones) and Melanie Simms of Novi (niece of Dr. Jones) managed all logistics of the event.

They sorted, organized, and prepared gifts for delivery. Connie Winston of Redford helped as well.

Their tireless efforts were very much appreciated.

Several children served as Christmas helpers to support the event in various ways.

It was a spiritually charged event that engaged the community to impact families during this wonderful time of the year. It was indeed “A Christmas Blessing.”

Victorious Women Ministries, based in Michigan and Arizona, began as Women in Christ in 2000 and expanded to become Victorious Women Ministries in 2011. Proceeds from events hosted by the organization are used to support families in need.

Additional information regarding Victorious Women Ministries can be found at www.victoriouswomenmin.org.

Southfield Parks & Recreation presents Daddy-Daughter Dinner & Dance The Southfield Parks & Recreation Department will host the Daddy-Daughter Dinner and Dance on Saturday, Jan. 19, from 5:30-9 p.m. in the Southfield Pavilion, 26000 Evergreen Road.

Girls 14 years old and under and their dads (or favorite uncle, grandfather) are invited to enjoy a special evening of dinner and dancing. Dinner including chicken, pasta, vegetables and salad will take place from 5:30-6:45 p.m. followed by the dance from 7-9 p.m. Tickets are $20 per person for the dinner and dance ($25 for nonresidents) or $10 per person for just the dance ($12.50 for non-residents) if purchased by Jan. 15. Tickets purchased after Jan. 15 are $30 per person for the dinner and dance ($35 for nonresidents) or $15 per person for just the dance ($17.50 for non-residents).

Tickets may be purchased at the Southfield Parks and Recreation Department, located at 26000 Evergreen Road, until 2 p.m. on Saturday, Jan. 19. Ticket sales for the dinner are limited to the first 400 to register. Tickets will not be available at the door. Payment for this program must be made by cash or charge (VISA, MasterCard or Discover) only. Photo mementos will also be available for an additional cost.

Call the Southfield Parks and Recreation Department at (248) 796-4620 for more information.

When I sought God for the theme of the January/ February issue, I received “2013 – Year of the Breakthrough. “ I clearly began to see that God wanted the body of Christ, the readers and subscribers of the magazine and the United States to break through the barriers that have prevented us from receiving and walking into all that God has for us in 2013. My initial thoughts were of prosperity and material possessions, not out of greed, but because I, and many others that I know, are lacking in those areas.

But over the last few weeks, God began to reveal much to me about breakthrough. He had me begin a study of Biblical breakthroughs, and what I realized is that what we need to seek God for in 2013, not simply for financial breakthrougs, but the kind of breakthrough that blesses us with revelation, peace, healing, deliverance and protection from the enemy.

So I began decreeing and declaring true, Biblical breakthrough for 2013, during the last few weeks of the year. I knew without a doubt, that we, meaning myself and anyone who was agreeing with me, would achieve breakthroughs in 2013. Then, lo and behold, during the last few days of 2013, I began to perceive that I was under attack. At first I ignored it, because it was subtle, but a few days later, the attack became so vicious that it nearly broke me down. Not only was I experiencing the attack of the enemy, but I began to get sick physically. I realized that it was because I was declaring and decreeing breakthroughs not just for myself, but for so many people, that the enemy decided to attack.

However, I pressed on, in spite of the overwhelming attack. I say all this to say, that your enemy is not as big as he seems.

Once you diminish the enemy’s size in your mind, then you will be amazed

Buick Achievers Scholarship applications open The Buick Achievers Scholarship Program, funded by the General Motors Foundation, is accepting applications for 2013 scholarships through Feb. 28.

This is the third year the 1,100 Buick Achiever Scholarships will be awarded to students who excel in both the classroom and in the community and are pursuing degrees in engineering, design, information technology and business-related majors in the auto industry.

The program was created in 2011 and has awarded nearly $12 million in scholarships.

Through the program, 100 high school or current undergraduate students receive scholarships up to $25,000 a year, renewable for up to four years and one additional year for qualified five-year engineering programs.

A one-time $2,000 scholarship is awarded to 1,000 students.

A FATHER and daughter make a grand entrance at a recent Daddy-Daughter Dinner and Dance

For e-mail notifications about the program, please visit www.buickachievers. com.

that the breakdown that the enemy planned for you suddenly turns into the breakthrough that God had already ordained for you. Your giants are not really giants.

They are grasshoppers.

So I am decreeing and declaring that you put on the whole armor of God, and not let your guard down in 2013. Be aware that just because you are smooth sailing does not mean that the enemy is not watching you in the midst of your bliss, waiting for the opportune time to attack.

Keep your eyes open in 2013. And when you see the giants begin to appear, remember that you are the one that allow them to be giants. You, with the help of God, have the power to turn them into grasshoppers.

In 2013, don’t have a breakdown.

Have a breakthrough!

Sheila Thomas is editor and publisher of Prayer and Praise magazine, which can be found at www.prayerandpraisemagazine.com.

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CHAT WITH CHURCHFOLK: A shift in consciousnes, ‘Whispering hope’

By Pastor PJ BanksAnderson

Christians commemorate the visitation of the Magi (the three wise men). On the other hand, Christians in the East commemorate the baptism of Jesus.

“Success is what you do with your ability.

It’s how you use your talent.” — George Allen, Sr.

A CROWD GATHERS outside the McQueen family’s new home.

Compuware welcomes the McQueens to their new home Compuware Corporation, the technology performance company, presented the McQueen family with their new residence, bringing Project: Welcome Home to a successful conclusion. The new home was revealed to the family recently in front of program sponsors, partners and volunteers and was followed by a community event at J.E. Clark Preparatory Academy.

“This is a dream come true for our family,” said Orlando McQueen. “I honestly never thought that we’d be homeowners and with this blessing to build on, I know that our family will be secure as we grow and chase our dreams.

Thank you to Compuware and Art Van and Habitat for Humanity Detroit and all of the people that made this happen. We couldn’t be more grateful to you all.”

The project emerged from Compuware’s iWish4Detroit campaign — part of its sponsorship of America’s Thanksgiving Parade, created and produced by The Parade Company — honoring the wish for “a place to call home,” the most frequent among last year’s submissions. Launched Aug. 20 with a call for nominations and enabled by an accelerated selection and partner family on-boarding process by Habitat for Humanity Detroit, the whirlwind effort came to a close in a joyous community event at nearby J.E. Clark Preparatory Academy.

“Compuware is focused on making a difference for our clients through technology and that commitment extends into the community,” said Compuware CEO Bob Paul. “Engagement in the community provides rewarding opportunities for everyone involved and Project: Welcome Home has enabled Compuware employees worldwide to rally in support of this worthwhile project and deserving family. Congratulations to the McQueens and welcome to the Compuware family. We’re honored to have been able to contribute to your future success.”

The combined contributions of many parties were required to bring this project to fruition. The four-bedroom, one-bath ranch is a Habitat for Humanity Detroit home that was sponsored by Compu-

The current season of Advent is about hope, in some cases “whispering hope,” hope that cannot be spoken except from the heart. Hope for the likes of Moses, Esther, Jesus, Martin Luther King, Jr., and Fannie Lou Hamer.

Combining the four Sundays in Advent along with the first Sunday in Epiphany, we are invited to celebrate the hope, peace, love, joy and light of this season. In many African American settings of the church we also celebrate Kwanzaa during Epiphany.

For centuries, Biblical women, women in antiquity and many women in contemporary society have hoped to birth their own children. The women in the first two eras were shamed if they did not have children, especially a male child, usually the heir apparent.

We are writing more about Kwanzaa, the time that Maulana Karenga founded Kwanzaa in 1966.

It is a week-long celebration.

According to Dr. Karenga, the purpose of the celebrations are to honor African heritage in African Canadian and African American culture.

THE MCQUEEN family members are all smiles.

There is only one reference in all of Holy Writ

Observed from Dec. 26 to Jan. 1, Kwanzaa’s seven core principles (Nguzo Saba) are: Unity, Self-Determination, Collective Work and Responsibility, Cooperative Economics, Purpose, Creativity, and Faith.

Comcast gifted the McQueen family with a new television and was able to sign them up for the Internet Essentials broadband program, as well as award 25 families Internet Essentials gift bags, each including a $20 Meijer gift card for the holidays.

Comcast will be working with Habitat for Humanity and the Morningside Commons Neighborhood Association to ensure that all eligible residents are able to take advantage of Internet Essentials.

The program actively addresses the three primary barriers to broadband use as identified by the Pew

Visit the Project: Welcome Home page on www. iWish4Detroit.com to see the build process and the finished result and meet the McQueen family and learn their heartwarming story. Also, please continue to submit iWishes and perhaps next year, yours will be the one honored.

“The hopes and fears of all the years are met in Thee tonight.”

Please pray for the 6,650 American souls and the 8,040 coalition souls killed in action (as of 12/05/2012), their families and especially their children.

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WJLB, in addition to providing entertainment at the community celebration, gave away a television and contributed groceries and a Meijer gift card to the McQueen family. Dell helped to expand the project by delivering 26 laptop PCs that were presented to the McQueens and 25 other Morningside Commons households. Detroit florists Blumz…by JRDesigns contributed a beautiful Christmas tree and holiday décor and gifts and additional housewares, supplies and the Michigan Chronicle Praise Connect Detroit network.

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Center – a lack of understanding, the cost of a computer, and the cost of the service.

In many places, there are pleas for the Son of God, Jesus, to restore our spoken and whispering hope for hearts, homes, and a world filled with His peace, love, joy and light.

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ware and furnished with living room and bedroom furniture, as well as new mattresses, courtesy of Art Van Furniture. Compuware also contributed two years of mortgage payments that the McQueen family chose to use to reduce the overall term of the loan. Compuware employees, in addition to participating in the build itself, contributed additional appliances, housewares and holiday gifts to fill the home.

This exception is made in the event there are no sons. The most striking plea for a son is found in I Samuel 1:10.

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Epiphany, which means manifestation, sometimes called Theophaneia, which means vision of God, is celebrated after Kwanzaa on Jan. 6.

Epiphany is a traditional, Christian feast-day which celebrates the revelation of God as a human in the person of Jesus Christ.

In the West, traditional

ORLANDO AND MRS. MCQUEEN in the kitchen of their new home.

where women are named heir apparent (Numbers 27:6-8).

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WHAT’S INSIDE sampson appointed (A-8) Mariners Inn recently announced the promotion of David Sampson to the position of chief executive officer. He has been with Mariners Inn since 2002 and held several positions.

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mubarak played religion card (A-2) Ousted Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak portrayed himself as a paradigm of stability in a country he once described as a “powder keg” of sectarian unrest. Yet far from promoting stability, his regime may have actually been the source of much of the religious strife.

Home repair Program (B-1): Rebuilding Together Detroit (RTD) is seeking applications from low-income homeowners in Southwest Detroit who are in need of minor home repair assistance.

Academic excellence honored (c-1): The Final Five Elite High School Football Players were recently lauded for their Athletic and Scholastic Excellence at the 20th Annual Franklin D. Watkins Awards held at the Omni Hotel in Los Angeles.

new tax credits (c-6): A new 25 percent state Small Business Investment Tax Credit, designed to encourage investments in start-up and early-stage Michigan technology companies, is aiming to help Michigan entrepreneurs secure capital and reduce risks associated with a new business or novel technology.

The motortown Revue (d-1): The Motortown Revue, the legendary shows that toured the nation by bus for almost the entirety of the ’60s, is recalled by someone who never missed a revue and, like so many other Motown fans, cherishes the memory.

Bankole Thompson CHRONICLE SENIOR EDITOR

The current state of the Detroit Public Schools is a mockery of Brown v Board of Education and it exposes the deep inequities in education.

Just because your child is not enrolled in the Detroit Public Schools does not mean you shouldn’t be concerned about the fate of the district before it heads toward implosion.

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like Detroit where a national reading report card places the city at number 56 out of the 75 largest metropolitan cities in the U.S. surveyed. That means literacy is shamefully low in the city and we are doing little or nothing to change the deplorable situation.

The latest study conducted by Central Connecticut State University, according to Data Driven Detroit, ranks the “culture and resources for reading” and it examines not wheth-

Your ability to get the Bankole Thompson best education for your child should not be based on geography, income or ethnicity but, rather, on the simple principle that every child regardless of their background should have an empowering education that equips them for a brighter future. Each child should have access to a meaningful education that would not leave them trailing behind in the dust children in Japan, India, China and other countries move ahead.

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Our readers take center stage on national issues Following his series of sit-down interviews with President Obama, and his successful 2010 interview-based book “Obama and Black Loyalty Vol. 1,” editor Bankole Thompson is upping the ante with the start of a new special report “White House XChange” March 30. The report will deal with issues tied to Detroit and Michigan that the Obama administration is tackling. It will introduce readers to issues raised in White House media conference calls. The report will invite our readers to weigh in on the debate about what the Obama administration is doing by having their opinions and views reflected in the report.

Detroit’s 56th place in the 2010 study is the same spot it occupied in a similar report in 2005. The highest rank the city got was 50th in 2007.

Washington, D.C., was rated the most well-read city in the nation and following that were Seattle, Minneapolis, Atlanta, Pittsburgh, San Francisco, St. Paul, Denver, Portland, St. Louis, Cincinnati and Boston.

Its is also noteworthy that these cities are among the most admired places in the nation and they have, in fact, become meccas for those seeking greener pastures. When young people are making the exodus from the state, more than likely they are moving to one of the cities mentioned in this report.

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These cities are not only a paragon of a reading culture, they also offer other incentives that we are not offering in this city.

There is no possible way we can bank on attracting young families to the city if basic amenities like recreational centers are not available on a full scale.

When the educational system does not have the public confidence

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By C.L. Price Area businesses sloshing through Michigan’s sluggish economic recovery will soon receive much-needed infrastructure support, thanks to global communications leader AT&T’s network improvement plans announced last week.

The improvements — to expand backhaul, enable 4G speeds, increase mobile broadband capacity and upgrade hundreds of cell sites — are predicted to accelerate the pace of area business growth.

Why invest now?

Gov. Snyder keynotes Pancakes & Politics Gov. Rick Snyder kicked off the Michigan Chronicle’s Pancakes & Politics season at the Detroit Athletic Club on March 3 with a candid conversation built around reinventing Michigan. At left, Snyder chats with Curtis Ivery, Wayne County Community College Chancellor, Betty Brooks, community leader, and Shaun Wilson, Vice President, Director of Client and Community Relations, PNC Bank, and Ric DeVore, Regional President, PNC Bank. See page C-7 for photo highlights.

“We feel very confident about Detroit’s economic recovery,” stated Jim Murray, president of AT&T Michigan.

“As a consequence, we’re committed to making sizeable investments in this

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Wayne County Community College District (WCCCD) is the largest urban community college in Michigan, with record enrollment numbers for the spring 2011 semester.

Nearly 32,000 students registered for credit classes at all five of the District locations and online. Additionally, the District expects more than 40,000 non-credit students to register as well for a total of nearly 72,000 served in all programs.

WCCCD, the multi-campus district serving 32 communities in Southeast Michigan, has seen exponential growth as degree and certificate programs have been expanded, infrastructure improved, and

investments in students, services and technologies increased.

“In this economy, post secondary education and training is the ticket to competing in today’s changing workforce.

Access to higher education-especially community colleges--is critical,” said Dr. Curtis Ivery, chancellor. “WCCCD is an integral economic and social catalyst to the health and welfare of this region and state.”

A recent economic impact study reported that WCCCD’s students generate more than $122 million in taxable income annually to the region and state. Every dollar that is invested in WCCCD returns

$22.80 in benefits to all Michigan residents.

Having been recognized as one of the fastest growing community colleges in the nation and the largest urban community college in Michigan, WCCCD was forced to cap enrollment during the spring 2010 semester. This year, under the direction of Dr. Ivery, WCCCD lifted the enrollment cap to make certain that no student was turned away in spite of WCCCD’s funding challenges.

WCCCD gives students the opportunity to train in emerging technology and high demand fields, allowing them to become competent professionals helping to position the

state for vibrant growth and a strong economic future.

Community colleges across the nation face difficult decisions in a climate of limited resources. The commitment of WCCCD in assuring that the doors to educational opportunities remain open is a direct result of the determination of faculty, staff and administrators.

“Our students and all those we serve need us to work as hard as we can for them. If we can’t be the difference between success and a future of limited options, we are not living up to the mission and vision of this institution,” said Dr. Ivery.

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Keith Williams (left), president of EPM Music Group, Vincent Tharpe (new artist), and Earnest Pugh, founder and CEO of EPM Music Group.

‘Live in Memphis’ gospel CD now available

Although it was recently announced that Earnest Pugh, EPM Music Group president, was signing fellow Memphian Vincent Tharpe and his group, Kenosis, to EPM Music Group, it’s now official.

They recently met up at Pursuit of God Church in Memphis where Kenosis was performing and they traded signatures on a new contract.

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Separation to reconcile

By Dr. Kim Logan-Nowlin and Arthur Nowlin

A young man indicated that he had some concerns regarding his relationship with his wife. He stated that his wife had a male friend who had ended a relationship with a friend of hers. His wife grew up in the same community and they attended the same schools together. But as time moved on so did they move in different directions of life.

The young man indicated that his wife always kept in touch with her friends but after her male friend broke off his relationship from someone else, his wife and her male friend connected again to discuss their childhood and school days.

On many occasions the young man would hear the phone ring late in the evening and it would be the male friend talking to his wife about his daily concerns. The situation became intense as the young man became frustrated with his wife and her relationship with her childhood friend.

The young man indicated he heard his wife talking to her friend and it was different than how she talked to him. He remembered how nurturing she was in the beginning of their marriage. He became frustrated and one evening he read some of the text messages. He was shocked at what he read and he confronted his wife.

After the initial confrontation, his wife indicated to him that if she had the opportunity she would move to Florida near her friend. The next day the young man moved out of the house and has been separated since the incident. I met with both and they discussed reunification of their marriage but the effort was minimal. In an article

by Susan Pease Gadoua

Panelists on Barriers to Birding: Doug Gray (left), Clemson University, Professor of Wildlife Ecology; Dr. Drew Lanham, wildlife photographer and author;Dudley Edmondson, Three Rivers Park District Senior Outdoor Education Manager; and Bob Gibson. – U.S. Fish and Wildlife Photo by Valerie Rose Redmond.

Dr. Kim Logan-Nowlin and Arthur Nowlin. (“Contemplating Divorce”) she indicated there are three reasons for separation. 1. A step in the divorce process. 2. To gain perspective on the marriage. 3. To enhance the marriage. Each process requires commitment to the goal of the separation.

a breakdown in communication. Finally, if a person is only using separation to eventually move into divorce, be honest and allow your partner to move on with their life. But many times separation is used as a ploy which can cause resentment.

There should be positive communication regarding the objective and the requirements associated with the separation.

I feel that separation is a final effort to eliminate the negative issues leading up to the separation.

In separating both parties must establish rules of the separation and place a time frame to reconcile.

not reunited with his wife and continued expressing feelings of love for her but he stressed that he is unable to forgive her. He feels betrayed and this is causing stagnation in their relationship. Marriage is sacred and it takes an honest effort to bring two personalities together as one.

A time frame is important yet in some situations indefinite time frames are possible to recapture the trust and commitment needed to improve the marriage. In separation the couple must be focused to express feelings of the issues leading to the separation.

It is important to consider an outside mediator if there is stagnation and

Two Birders enjoying the jandscape: Birding enthusiast Dan R. Kunkle (left) and one of the Sky Dogs, Clemson University Professor of Wildlife Ecology Dr. Drew Lanham take a break from the conference to take in the beautiful landscape The young man has at the Minnesota Valley National Wildlife Refuge. – U.S. Fish and Wildlife Photos by Val-

Arthur E.. Nowlin, LMSW, CAADC, and Kim Logan-Nowlin, Ph.D. LPC, BCCPC, MFT, are a husband and wife Christian counseling team and owners of the Kim Logan Communications Christian Family Counseling Clinic in Detroit. www. kimnow.com, www.familylifelrc.com, drkimklc@ gmail.com, aenowlin@ yahoo.com Psychology Today,YouTube.com, (313) 898-8200.

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Birding Audience: The audience at the birding conference looked like America.

Peer influence: Facebook, Twitter, alcohol and drugs When it comes to alcohol and drug use, peers can be just as influential online as they are in person, say researchers at the University of Michigan School of Public Health.

To gather what they believe to be the most comprehensive survey to date to look at how peers influence one another on Internet social platforms with regard to alcohol and marijuana use, the U-M researchers polled an online sample of 3,447 people ages 18-24 across the United States.

The research, appearing in the November issue of the Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs and online now, found that greater alcohol content online was associated with higher levels of drinking.

Sarah Stoddard and colleagues at the School of Public Health looked specifically at the association between substance use and the presence of alcohol and marijuana content on Internet social networking sites and perceived norms about post-

ing such content.

The study found that those who thought their parents and peers would be upset if they viewed images of their drinking and drug use online were less likely to drink. Further, young adults who reported more online peer support were less likely to use alcohol.

For marijuana use, Stoddard and colleagues could not establish an association between online content and use of the substance. However, those who were concerned about negative reactions from others if they were to post images of drinking and drug use online were less likely to report marijuana use.

In addition, the researchers found that alcohol use was associated with the number of images of such activity on the respondents’ social sites.

“We were surprised, however, that attitudes about whether it was ok to post images and updates about drinking were not associated with alco-

hol use. If you see what peers are doing, it perhaps is more socially acceptable,” said Stoddard, research assistant professor of health behavior and health education at the School of Public Health.

Sky Dogs: Birding enthusiast Doug Gray (left), Clemson University; Professor of Wildlife Ecology, Dr. Drew Lanham, wildlife photographer and author;Dudley Edmondson, Three Rivers Park District Senior Outdoor Education Manager; Bob “This information sug- Gibson, birding enthusiast Paul J. Baicich, Texas Parks and Wildlife Ranger;Roy gests use of these social Rodriguez; and Fledging Birders Institute President Dave Magpiong.

platforms could be a good way to reach young adults with messages about alcohol and marijuana use and other health behaviors. And images may be effective in a social networking environment.”

Stoddard’s co-authors from the U-M School of Public Health included professors Jose Bauermeister and Marc Zimmerman, U-M alumna Deborah Gordon-Messer and doctoral student Michelle Johns.

The paper is part of the Virtual Networks Study, a joint project of the Prevention Research Center of Michigan and the Sexuality and Health Lab in the Department of Health Behavior and Health Education at the School of Public Health.

Beauty’s more than skin deep

By Lamont Jones, M.D., Plastic Surgeon Self-image is not always just about looking better.

It also can improve physical and mental health.

And there are signs that more African Americans are enhancing their appearance and doing so, not by the standards of others, but by their own.

Popular media and advertising have long been packed with images of attractive, men and women viewed primarily from one perspective which can be seen on television, in print, and on the web.

And that standard, to the chagrin even of many – if not a majority –presents a fantasy vision of “beauty” as thin, light skinned, airbrushed and unmarked– except perhaps by tattoos.

Even as this standard is far from reality for the average Caucasian man or woman, it is an unfair example for African Ameri-

cans and other people of color. It certainly doesn’t accommodate cultural differences in defining beauty. And that can be destructive both to self-image and physical health.

It has been reported by the American Society of Plastic Surgeons that in 2002, only 375,025 black folks had cosmetic or plastic surgery nationwide. By 2008, that number grew by nearly two-and-a-half times, to 907,141.

Contributing to the increase has been recognition of culturally diverse beauty standards as addressed by so-called “ethnic plastic surgery,” a term and practice that was virtually unknown not many years ago.

One well-known example of a stark contrast with the common thinner image of mainstream beauty is that African American women – and men – admire curves. A

voluptuous shape can be sculpted to more pleasing contours instead of eliminating them. Pleasing, that is, to African Americans’ own preferences and beauty standards.

Similarly, facial features can be enhanced while maintaining ethnic identity. Furthermore, ethnic features have become mainstream signs of beauty and have crossed over, as with fuller lips.

There are many other examples, but at this point I feel it is important to say where I stand on this.

I am very encouraged by these “ethnic” trends because they draw on appropriate cultural references. It is just common sense that African Americans, as well as Hispanics and Asians, should not judge their own beauty using mainstream images.

Yet for too long, too many have. Rational balance seems to be coming to beauty.

Sky Dogs, Bird Chick and Odd Bird land in Midwest

Sky Dogs, Bird Chick and Odd Bird flew in and landed at Minnesota Valley National Wildlife Refuge last fall for a birding diversity convention aimed at increasing birding among nontraditional audiences. The “Focus on Diversity: Changing the Face of American Birding” themed convention attracted a large flock of 75 birding enthusiasts from New York, Washington D.C. and from across the nation as far west as Los Angeles, Calif.

The conference was spearheaded by Dave Magpiong, president of the New Jersey non-profit corporation, Fledging Birders Institute. Magpiong is one in the group of birders who have donned the monikers Sky Dog, Bird Chick and Odd Bird.

“We’re excited to be part of this conference,” said Minnesota Valley NWR Refuge Manager Charlie Blair addressing the crowd. “We know that we will get information today that will help us move our program forward.”

The conference focused the nation’s demographic shift and the increasing and imperative need for concentrated outreach to nontraditional audiences.

Barriers to birding and call to action strategies were also points of discussion.

The diverse crowd at Minnesota Valley NWR looked like America.

“Who are American birders?” Magpiong asks.

“This does not look like any other birding event that I’ve ever been to,” he said looking out at the crowd before drawing the

contrast of the American populace of 65 percent white and 35 percent nonwhite as compared to the birding community at 92 percent white and 8 percent non-white. “We share this love—beautiful birds.

Minnesota Valley National Wildlife Refuge was no accident,” he said, referring to the venue. “It is perfect.”

The dual mission of Magpiong’s Fledging Birders Institute is “enhancing the healthy development of our youth with the profound benefits of bird watching and promoting public awareness of avian diversity and factors which threaten it thereby fostering a societal bird conservation ethic.” The event was live streamed and tuned in by viewers at http:// www.livestream.com/USFWSMidwest Themes of relevancy, perspective and people were repeated throughout the conference.

Speakers at the conference indicated that social economic factors, perspective and relevancy play a huge role when making attempts to reach non-traditional audiences. In his presentation, Clemson University Professor of Wildlife Ecology Dr. Drew Lanham referenced a popular birding corridor in an impoverished South Carolina community where the people have no water to drink. Attempts to rectify the situation were met with concerns from environmental communities about how it was going to impact bird habitat.

This, he says, “while people have no water to drink.” Lanham also referenced a population density map of people

of color in the nation and invited the audience to overlay it with a bird conservation map. “Do we ever think about land conservation regions and think about the layers of humanity underneath?

It’s a critical thing,” he says. “If you are not talking to the people on that landscape, then you are not addressing the issues of conservation.”

Magpiong invited the audience to submit their call to action ideas before announcing that the next conference will be in the Rio Grande Valley. This diversity conference and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife’s decision to host it, brings us all one step closer to changing the face of American birding.

Notable speakers at the conference in addition to Lanham included wildlife photographer and author Dudley Edmondson, bird guide author Kenn Kaufman, birding enthusiast Paul J. Baicich, birdchick.com blogger Sharon Stiteler, Texas Parks and Wildlife ranger Roy Rodriguez, and birding enthusiasts Doug Gray, Marta DelCampo, and Derek Washington, among others. While Washington answers to Duck and Oddbird and Stiteler to Bird Chick, Edmondson, Gray, Lanham, Magpiong, Baicich, and Rodriguez have dubbed themselves the Sky Dogs. Also on the speaking agenda were the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s own, Dr. Mamie Parker, Judy Geck, and Tom Worthington.

For more information on this and other birding events, visit: http://fledgingbirders.org/about. html

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Professional Lions brass Schwartz, Mayhew coaching is deserve another year perilous duty Stein III Hey, I’m shedding no tears for all the By AsLeland coaches the very interesting NFL Playoffs that are getting waxed by their teams. They make a lot of money for leading their teams into battle.

However, if I was a fan of one of the teams that did the firing, I just might be upset.

For example, the Chicago Bears have won only one Super Bowl and have appeared in two. Recently fired coach Lovie Smith took the Bears to their most recent Super Bowl, where he made history joining Indianapolis Colts coach Tony Dungy as the first and only time two African-American coaches met in a Super Bowl.

Dungy, Smith’s mentor, lost a close contest to the Colts.

Now dig this — the Detroit Lions go 4-12 and keep their coach, but the Bears go 10-6, just missing the NFL Playoffs and Smith gets canned.

Football watchers believe the decision came down to the Vikings’ win over the Packers in the final week of the regular season. A win

by Green Bay would have ensured a playoff berth for Chicago.

Wow! How close is that?

How many teams in the NFL would have loved to be in that position? It is not

By Leland Stein III as if the Bears have a juggernaut franchise.

They are very competitive, in fact losing in the NFC title game. I was there covering the game in frozen Solider Field in 2011 when the Packers won 21-14.

In the Game

Dungy, who is at the front of speculation about filling NFL open positions, tweeted, “Lovie Smith’s firing is the 1 reason I’m not coming back to get fired for only winning 10 (games).”

Former Bears coach Mike Ditka, who led his team to its only Super Bowl win, said, “I think Lovie is a very good coach. I think that a 10-win season is important in this league. If Minnesota would have lost and the Bears were in the playoffs this wouldn’t have happened. That’s a fact. So how stupid is it then? It really is stupid.”

continue, the road to New Orleans will get clearer and clearer. As I watched city after city compete at the highest professional level, I could not help but reflect on the Detroit Lions.

What was painfully clear in the 2012 campaign was the Lions produced an inadequate and poor effort, losing eight straight games in the season, ending with a 26-24, loss to the Chicago Bears at Ford Field.

The Lions finished the season an inferior 4-12, tied for the worst record in the NFC and they didn’t even win an NFC North game and got outscored, 95-54, in their final three games.

After a much hyped off-season, which was fueled for the fans following a Lions playoff berth as a result of an impressive 10-6 record in the 2011 season, to come all the way down like the team has put a lot of questions on the table.

One interrogative I get from friends and readers is should the Lions fire head Coach Jim Schwartz and/or general manager Martin Mayhew? Especially in light of the surprising firing of coaches in all of the professional leagues, it is not a stretch to suggest that Schwartz should be canned after this beyond disappointing season.

After the season closing loss to Chicago, Schwartz was drilled by the media asking him if he thought his job was in jeopardy, and he simply told all it is a private conversation with the Ford family. However, he did say, “The thing I’m most concerned about is getting this team back to where we all want it to be.

When the story of the season is written, it’s going to say 4-12 and nobody’s happy with that — players, coaches, front office, ownership, everybody. Everybody’s in the same boat with that.

But we’re all focused on getting that right. There’s nobody happy with that.

And whether you’re a player or you’re a coach in this league, it just comes with the territory, and particularly when you have a season like we did.

“I’ll say this, I’m not proud at all of our record; there’s things that we can do better. But I am proud of this team.

I’m proud of the way that they’ve fought in this game, but I’m not proud of our record and we’re very determined to get it right.”

Since Schwartz and Mayhew have improved the Lions’ record for three consecutive years, this woeful season is no reason to fire them both. Sure I concur that 2013 should be a season on the

The fallout associated with missing the playoffs for the fifth time in six seasons proved too much to overcome for Smith.

EAST LANSING — Just think, the Michigan State Spartans came into the 2012 college football campaign with a noteworthy 14 games home winning streak.

Heck, this is basketball. Many teams have sat at .500, then turned their season around. Why so quick to pull the trigger? Johnson has won an NBA title as a player and led Dallas to the NBA Finals.

They won the Legends Division and played in the inaugural Big Ten Championship game in Indianapolis last season and coming into this season the Spartans were by all accounts the team to beat in the Big Ten.

But he was given a team with a number of new players that needed time to gel.

Johnson said he was caught offguard. “If I was the owner I would not have fired me,” he lamented.

The Nets are now going after Phil Jackson, who just announced his engagement to Lakers’ owner Jerry Buss’ daughter, Jeanie. Jackson was bypassed by the Lakers in November after Mike Brown was surprisingly fired five games into the season.

I do not see any way Jackson takes that job. Heck, the Lakers job, whom he coached to five NBA titles, might open up after their less than stellar showing under Mike D’Antoni.

Also in the NFL, Andy Reid in Philadelphia, Smith and Ken Whisenhunt in Arizona, all coaches who took teams to the Super Bowl, plus Norv Turner in San Diego, Pat Shurmur in Cleveland, Romeo Crennel in Kansas City and Chan Gailey in Buffalo have all been shown the door.

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edge, and a much improved record will likely be mandatory.

Looking at the 2012 Lions, I saw a lot of close games, and at least four of those should have been victories. Maybe another four were right on the edge.

Many believe the Lions are far away from being a winning team, but if a team goes 10-6, with many of the same players, maybe with better coaching, a few more breaks, and a few valued additions they surely could get the team back to its 2011 success.

This off-season will be very interesting as a noteworthy number of players have their contracts up.

Said Schwartz about his core players: “There are a lot of things that go into the NFL, job security goes in – that’s players, that’s coaches, everybody’s in that same boat. There also are the challenges of salary cap era and free agency and things like that. I think we have 18 guys whose contracts are up. It’s going to be a challenge, but it’s no different

than last year. Last year was a challenge also. We had to let a couple guys go. We weren’t able to get any free agents. We know what’s ahead of us. We know that we’re going to have to work very hard.

We can do it.”

In the 2012 off-season Mayhew retained defense end Cliff Avril and linebacker Stephen Tulloch and drafted offensive tackle Riley Reiff. Not bad, I say.

However, the 2013 offseason will be a do or die effort from the Lions hierarchy.

Detroit started the season with dreams of competing for a Super Bowl, but injuries to the secondary, defensive line and receiver crops knocked the team off its base.

“Even with all the injuries, as unexpected as they may have been,” Schwartz said, “the coaching staff needed to do a better job adjusting. We didn’t do a good enough job managing it. Injuries are just life in the NFL and you need to be able to adjust.”

Spartans lose top three juniors

Then there is Avery Johnson, head coach of the new Brooklyn Nets, getting waxed after starting the season by winning 11 of their first 15 games en route to their best start in franchise history, but have been going just 3-10 in December, which prompted Brooklyn’s brass to make a change.

“You never think when you’re a .500 team and then you’re going into two more home games at home that something like this would happen,” Johnson said at a news conference. “But this is ownership’s decision, and this is what we sign up for. This is part of our business. Fair or unfair, it doesn’t matter.”

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Detroiters leave MSU, jump into NFL draft

The Bears were 84-66 under Smith, but reached the playoffs just once since their Super Bowl appearance in February 2007.

The irony of the canning was Johnson had just been named Eastern Conference Coach of the Month for November. Assistant P.J. Carlisemo was named interim head coach and retained the rest of Johnson’s staff.

LOUIS DELMAS waves goodbye to fans and the Lions 2012 season. – Andre Smith

By Leland Stein III

les, including a 5-yard sack, in MSU’s one-point win over TCU in the Buffalo Wild Wings Bowl.

“He’s an active player who consistently added a physical presence at the point of attack,” MSU coach Mark Dantonio said. “Without question, Will played one of his best games of the season against TCU. “Will is an extremely caring person and had a very tough time personally making this decision. When he made the commitment to first become a Spartan, he never wavered throughout the (recruiting) process. For that, I will be forever grateful and stand beside him throughout his life. We will miss Will as both a player and person as he moves into this next phase of his life.”

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Well, none of that was meant to be.

All the close games that the Spartans won over the past three years turned around and they lost them in 2012.

The Spartans did win their Buffalo Wild Wings Bowl game against TCU to close 7-6, and, put a positive ending to an otherwise disappointing season.

Said Gholston: “After talking things over with my family and some of my teammates, I decided the timing was right to make the move. I believe that I’m ready to play at the next level. I am very excited about the challenges that the future holds and I promise to always represent the university with class, dignity and professionalism.”

As MSU and its coaching staff, following its season ending bowl win, tried to put a positive spin on a season that fell short of expectations, their three best players, all juniors. declared for the 2013 NFL Draft.

Running back Le’Veon Bell and two Detroiters — tight end Dion Sims and defensive end William Gholston — all announced that they will forgo their senior seasons. It marks the first time Michigan State has had multiple underclassmen enter the NFL Draft since 1999, when defensive end Dimitrius Underwood and running back Sedrick Irvin left East Lansing.

The deadline for underclassmen to declare themselves eligible for the 2013 NFL Draft is Tuesday, Jan. 15.

Full disclosure: Being Michigan State alum, sure this hurts, for purely selfish reasons. Bell would have been in the Heisman discussion, Gholston would have been up for all the college defensive awards finals and simply put, all three would have been preseason AllAmericans. The fact of the matter is the Spartans would be a better team with them returning.

However, I applaud all three. Football is unlike any other sport and if a player can get a quality shot at the pros, he has to take it. The risk of injury is all too real in this rough and tumble game these men engage in for free in college.

WILLIAM GHOLSTON will be missed at MSU. — Dan Graschuck photo Players of their caliber cannot jeopardize their future by leaning on sentiment and succumbing to others’ opinions.

As much as this hurts, kudos to all three for not yielding to the pressure to come back and help good ol’ Sparty.

(Note: Bell, Gholston and Sims all earned All-Big Ten honors in 2012.)

Gholston, a former Detroit Southeastern High star and Michigan Chronicle PSL Defensive Player of the Year, earned second-team All-Big Ten honors from the media for a second-straight year after leading the Spartans in tackles for loss (13 for 49 yards), sacks (4.5 for 24 yards) and pass break-ups (10).

His 10 pass break-ups ranked first among NCAA FBS defensive linemen.

The 6-foot-7, 278-pound Gholston was named Defensive Player of the Game after recording a season-high nine tack-

A native Detroiter, at 6-foot-5, 280 pounds, Sims tied for third on the team with 36 receptions for 475 yards (13.2 avg.) and two scores. His receptions totals are tied for the third-highest single-season total by a Spartan tight end, trailing only Chris Baker who had 40 catches in 2001 and 38 in 1999.

“I think I can impress the pro scouts with my end-line blocking and provide a big target over the middle,” Sims said.

“With my size and athleticism, I can create mismatches in the passing game against linebackers and safeties.

Said Dantonio: “Dion is a big target with great hands. With his combination of size and power, he is difficult to bring down, so he gains a lot of yards after the catch. He’s also a much improved runblocker.”

The 6-foot-2, 237-pound Bell rushed 382 times for 1,793 yards and 12 touchdowns.

“This was the hardest decision of my life,” he said. “It’s difficult to leave my teammates and coaches as well as Spartan Nation, but I couldn’t pass on pursuing my dream and the opportunity to change my mom’s life.”

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Electric stimulation of brain releases powerful, opiate-like painkiller Researchers used electricity on certain regions in the brain of a patient with chronic, severe facial pain to release an opiate-like substance that’s considered one of the body’s most powerful painkillers.

The findings expand on previous work done at the University of Michigan, Harvard University and the City University of New York where researchers delivered electricity through sensors on the skulls of chronic migraine patients, and found a decrease in the intensity and pain of their headache attacks.

However, the researchers then couldn’t completely explain how or why.

The current findings help explain what happens in the brain that decreases pain during the brief sessions of elec-

tricity, says Alexandre DaSilva, assistant professor of biologic and materials sciences at the U-M School of Dentistry and director of the school’s Headache & Orofacial Pain Effort Lab.

brain release of mu-opioid, a natural substance that alters pain perception.

In order for opiate to function, it needs to bind to the mu-opioid receptor (the study assessed levels of this receptor).

In their current study, DaSilva and colleagues intravenously administered a radiotracer that reached important brain areas in a patient with trigeminal neuropathic pain (TNP), a type of chronic, severe facial pain. They applied the electrodes and electrically stimulated the skull right above the motor cortex of the patient for 20 minutes during a PET scan (positron emission tomography).

The stimulation is called transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS).

“This is arguably the main resource in the brain to reduce pain,” DaSilva said. “We’re stimulating the release of our (body’s) own resources to provide analgesia. Instead of giving more pharmaceutical opiates, we are directly targeting and activating the same areas in the brain on which they work. (Therefore), we can increase the power of this pain-killing effect and even decrease the use of opiates in general, and consequently avoid their side effects, including addiction.”

The radiotracer was specifically designed to measure, indirectly, the local

Most pharmaceutical opiates, espe-

cially morphine, target the mu-opioid receptors in the brain, DaSilva says.

The dose of electricity is very small, he says. Consider that electroconvulsive therapy (ECT), which is used to treat depression and other psychiatric conditions, uses amperage in the brain ranging from 200 to 1600 milliamperes (mA).

Just one session immediately improved the patient’s threshold for cold pain by 36 percent, but not the patient’s clinical, TNP/facial pain. This suggests that repetitive electrical stimulation over several sessions are required to have a lasting effect on clinical pain as shown in their previous migraine study, DaSilva says.

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‘I’ll Be Home for the Holidays’ provided gifts to over 50 families Continuing to make a difference in the city of Highland Park and the surrounding communities, the 4th Annual “I’ll Be Home for the Holidays” program provided food, warm clothing items, books, games, and cleaning supplies to 50 adopted families just in time for Christmas. Since the program began in 2009, over 175 families with approximately 550 children were presented with the best Christmas ever delivered straight to their doorsteps.

Behind the effort is a group calling itself “The ROOT – From Which All Good Things grow,” which serves the commu-

nity throughout the year with events including Hood Camp and Back to School Backpacks. The ROOT is comprised of several supporting community organizations led by The Moon Ministry, My Brother’s Keeper, Communicating Arts Credit Union, and Wayne Metropolitan Community Action Agency.

The families are nominated by the Highland Park Schools Parent Liaisons, and then volunteers from the ROOT meet with each family to assess the individual needs. Donations of goods and funds come from businesses and individuals throughout community. Each of the lead

partners in the ROOT are responsible for one piece, for instance Communicating Arts Credit Union (CACU) is responsible for the food.

“We are elated to make a difference in the lives of the residents this holiday season. As we strive to meet a few of their basic needs, this annual event affords us the opportunity to connect with those we serve,” says Hank Hubbard ROOT partner and President of Communicating Arts Credit Union.

“We couldn’t do it without the generosity of our members who donated over

$3,000 to this effort.”

The deliveries took place during the morning of Christmas Eve to insure that there would be food on the table and gifts under the tree on Christmas Day. For more information about how you or your organization can be a part of the 2013 Hood Camp, Back-to-School Backpack program, or “I’ll Be Home for the Holiday’s,” please contact Minister Shamayim (Shu) Harris at (313) 7289062 or Carlton Clyburn at (313) 2824542.

The kids could hardly wait to open their gifts.

A recipient gives CACU’s Davina Mosby a huge hug.

Volunteers Shandel Small and Davina Mosby bear.

Team 6 prepares to deliver food.

Team 4 takes a photo with a recipient family.

The impact of the fiscal cliff on your business In the late hours of New Year’s 2013, the House approved a deal which helped the country from going over the “fiscal cliff.” The House voted 257-167 to approve the business, meaning 98% of U.S. taxpayers will not see tax increases while extending unemployment benefits.

Additionally, a sweeping round of tax increases and government spending cuts were avoided — for the time being.

In other words, the Bushera tax cuts will remain in effect permanently and will now become part of the United States tax code.

Conversely, the top 2%, individuals and families earning over $400,000 and $450,000 will see tax increases.

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• Section 179 continued: According to the Post, “…Congress renewed for another year the maximum deduction levels for bonus depreciation and Section 179, which give tax breaks to businesses that purchase or lease software and equipment — both provide a boost for small employers planning to invest back into their firms in 2013”.

Henry Ford Wyandotte Hospital offers programs in month of January Start the new year out by improving your health. Throughout the month of January, Henry Ford Wyandotte Hospital will host a variety of events for the community, including free health screenings, Zumba classes and medical weight loss programs.

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Health Screenings – Blood Pressure & Cholesterol: Nurses from Henry Ford Wyandotte Hospital’s Community Outreach Program will provide blood pres• The Work Opportu- sure checks and counseling. Total and nity Tax Credit (WOTC): HDL cholesterol screenings are also Tax incentives for firms available for a cost of $10. Blood presthat hire widely under- sure screenings will take place from 11 employed groups like a.m. - 2 p.m. and cholesterol screenings youths and veterans will will take place from noon – 2 p.m. in the be extended and you can main lobby of Henry Ford Wyandotte with expect breaks for renew- Hospital, located at 2333 Biddle Ave. in able energy technologies Wyandotte. Cost: Free and retail/restaurant improvements, which were JAN. 14 extended through 2013.

Health Screenings – Blood Pressure: • Payroll taxes increased: Expect pay- Nurses from Henry Ford Wyandotte Hosroll taxes to increase to 6.2 percent—up pital’s Community Outreach Program from percent for all Americans. The law- will provide blood pressure checks and makers in Washington did not address counseling. Screenings will take place this issue as part of the recently negoti- from 8 - 10 a.m. in the main lobby of ated deal. Economists warned the move Henry Ford Health Center- Brownstown, could cripple consumer spending — a located at 23050 West Rd. in Brownbad sign for small businesses who have stown. Cost: Free already been complaining of low cus- JAN. 15 tomer demand.

Bariatric Seminar: Dr. Bilal Kharbutli • Capital gains rates increased: While will host a bariatric surgery seminar to dividend rates didn’t tick up nearly as educate participants about the various much as the White House had hoped, types of surgery, the pre- and post- surcapital gains and dividends did slightly gical process and what qualifies patients increase to 20 percent for high-income for surgery. The seminar will be held at earners, which entre­pre­neur­ship advo- 6 p.m. in Multipurpose Room A at Henry cates fear could deter some investments Ford Wyandotte Hospital, located at 2333 in new and growing firms.

Biddle Ave. in Wyandotte. Cost: Free

Mark S. Lee

Bottom line: This will help generate revenue to fund various federal programs in the future.

However, this sets up another political showdown in March. This new “March Madness” debate will focus on spending cuts and on raising the nation’s limit on borrowing.

In other words, potentially debating the debt ceiling crisis — or, essentially, how much the government can borrow to fund federal programs.

With this as a backdrop, how does the deal approved last week affect entrepreneurs or small business owners?

According to the Washington Post, it appears the deal will garner mixed reactions from the small business community. The paper states various compromises as part of the package will most likely include stipulations generally to assist and potentially hinder entreprenuers, depending on your situation.

The paper cites critical measures which will most likely impact start-ups and/or small businesses: • Overall Taxes: If you’re a small business with a pass-through income of over $450,000 and $400,000 for families or individuals, respectively, expect your tax rates to increase. With income levels less than those amounts, don’t expect an increase.

• R&D Investment: Tax credits were extended and reinstated retroactively for 2012, As an employer, you qualify for tax breaks ranging from 6 percent and 14 percent of the businesses R&D expenditures.

The bottom line is if you’re an entrepreneur or small business owner, you’re encouraged to stay on top of this deal and do your research. Do your due diligence and try to understand, as much as possible, potential implications to your business.

Additionally, I encourage you to review and, where appropriate, adjust your short term and longer term business plan, including your financials.

This will enable you to manage your business in an effective manner.

Again, this is a critical piece of legislation and I encourage you to stay on top of this developing story.

Mark S. Lee can be reached at mark@ leegroupinnovation.com or follow him at Linked In, Twitter or Facebook.

JAN. 16 Zumba - Wellness Wednesdays in Wyandotte: An hour-long Zumba session

hosted by Henry Ford Wyandotte Hospital will take place from 6 - 7 p.m. at Washington Elementary School, located at 1440 Superior St. in Wyandotte. Cost: Free JAN. 23 Zumba - Wellness Wednesdays in Wyandotte: An hour-long Zumba session hosted by Henry Ford Wyandotte Hospital will take place from 6 - 7 p.m. at Washington Elementary School, located at 1440 Superior St. in Wyandotte. Cost: Free JAN. 28 Joint Replacement Seminar: Dr. Michael Callan, orthopedic specialist for Henry Ford Wyandotte Hospital, will host a seminar about joint replacement, covering topics such as knowing when it’s time to consider joint replacement surgery, the pre- and post- surgical process and more. The seminar will take place at 6:30 p.m. at the Copeland Center, located at Henry Ford Wyandotte Hospital, located at 2333 Biddle Ave. in Wyandotte.

To register, please call 734-246-8985.

Cost: Free JAN. 30 Zumba - Wellness Wednesdays in Wyandotte: An hour-long Zumba session hosted by Henry Ford Wyandotte Hospital will take place from 6 - 7 p.m. at Washington Elementary School, located at 1440 Superior St. in Wyandotte. Cost: Free Registration is free for most of these events, unless otherwise noted in the event description. To register an event, call (734) 246-6057. To learn more about the events and Henry Ford Wyandotte Hospital, visit www.HenryFordWyandotte.com.

ADA scientific study finding The American Association of Public Health Dentistry (AAPHD) is committed to 1) Promotion of effective efforts in disease prevention, health promotion and service delivery; 2) Education of the public, health professionals and decision-makers regarding the importance of oral health to total well-being; and 3) Expansion of the knowledge base of dental public health and fostering competency in its practice. In accordance with these goals, we offer the following summary and analysis of the recent systematic review published in JADA, “A Systematic Review of Oral Health Outcomes Produced By Dental Teams Incor-

January is National Birth Defects Prevention Month

porating Midlevel Providers” (1).

This study was designed and commissioned by the ADA’s House of Delegate to address the following specific question: “In populations where nondentists conduct diagnostic, treatment planning, and/or irreversible/surgical dental procedures, is there a change in disease increment, untreated dental disease, and/or cost-effectiveness of dental care?”

Founded in 1937, the American Association of Public Health Dentistry (AAPHD) provides a focus for meeting the challenge to improve oral health.

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o matter what the score is, give game day fans something to cheer about with great food, and plenty of it.

These simple, delicious recipes from Johnsonville are easy for you to make, which means you can sit back and enjoy the game with everybody else.

For more flavorful recipe ideas to make your game day party a winner, visit www.johnsonville.com.

Yield: 6 servings Sauce 1 cup (8 ounces) sour cream 1/2 medium cucumber, peeled, seeded and finely chopped 2 cloves garlic, minced 2 teaspoons fresh parsley, chopped 1/4 teaspoon salt 1/4 teaspoon cracked black pepper, optional Hoagie 1 package (19 ounces) Johnsonville Original Bratwurst 1 loaf (1 pound) French bread 1 small onion, thinly sliced 1 medium tomato, thinly sliced Preheat oven to 350°F. In a bowl, combine sauce ingredients. Cover and refrigerate until serving.

Grill brats according to package directions.

When cool enough to handle, cut into 1/4-inch bias slices.

Slice French bread lengthwise and transfer to a baking sheet. Arrange brat slices on bread bottom. Bake at 350°F for 10 minutes or until bread is lightly browned.

Remove from oven. Top with the sauce, onion and tomato. Cut hoagie and serve.

Cajun Chicken Sausage Jambalaya Yield: 6 servings 1 large onion, chopped 1 medium green pepper, chopped 2 ribs celery, chopped 2 jalapeño peppers, seeded and diced (optional) 2 tablespoons olive oil 1 package (12 ounces) Johnsonville Cajun Style Chicken Sausage links, sliced 2 cloves garlic, minced 1 can (28 ounces) tomatoes, diced 1/2 cup water 1 tablespoon tomato paste 3/4 teaspoon Cajun seasoning 1/2 pound frozen cooked medium shrimp, thawed and tails removed 2 cups hot cooked rice In a large saucepan, sauté onion, pepper, celery and jalapeño peppers in oil until crisp-tender.

Add sausage and garlic; sauté 1 to 2 minutes longer.

Add tomatoes, water, tomato paste and seasoning; bring to a boil. Reduce heat; cover and simmer for 15 minutes.

Stir in shrimp and rice; heat through.

Italian Sausage Lollipops

Yield: 20 lollipops 1 package (19 ounces) Johnsonville Hot Italian Sausage Links 20 10- to 12-inch bamboo skewers Oil for deep frying (vegetable, peanut or canola) Corn Batter 1 cup cornmeal 1 cup flour 1/4 teaspoon salt 1/8 teaspoon black pepper 1/4 cup sugar 4 teaspoons baking powder 1 large egg, lightly beaten 1 cup milk (preferably not skim) Remoulade Dipping Sauce 2 tablespoons mayonnaise 2 tablespoons Dijon mustard 2 tablespoons whole grain mustard 1 tablespoon lemon juice 1 teaspoon wine vinegar 2 tablespoons pickle relish 2 tablespoons capers, chopped 1 teaspoon dried tarragon 1/2 teaspoon ground black pepper 1/4 teaspoon salt Dash Tabasco sauce 1 cup canola oil Cook sausages according to package directions. Allow to cool slightly and cut each sausage into 4 pieces.

In a medium bowl, mix all dry ingredients for the corn batter then mix in wet ingredients.

Pour oil 2 to 3 inches deep and bring to medium heat or about 350°F. Place one sausage piece on the end of each skewer. Dip into the batter and coat the sausage completely.

Carefully submerge the sausage into the hot oil while holding the end of the stick. Fry each sausage for about 1 minute, until the batter is a deep golden brown.

Serve with Remoulade Dipping Sauce or your favorite mustard.

Remoulade Dipping Sauce Combine all ingredients except oil in a food processor and process for 30 seconds. With the motor running, slowly add the oil through the feed tube and process until thickened.

Transfer the sauce to a bowl, cover and refrigerate for at least one hour before serving.

Easy Sausage Roll-ups

Yield: 14 servings 1 package (12 ounces) Johnsonville Breakfast Sausage Links 2 containers (16 rolls) refrigerated crescent rolls 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon 2 tablespoons sugar Optional: Warm maple syrup, honey, jam and preserves Prepare sausage according to package directions.

Drain and set aside.

Unroll crescent roll dough. Place one cooked sausage on wide end of a dough triangle. Roll dough around sausage and place on baking pan with the seam side down. Repeat with remaining sausages and dough. (You will have two extra rolls to bake and enjoy with your favorite topping.)

Mix cinnamon and sugar together and sprinkle evenly over roll-ups.

Bake according to directions on crescent roll package.

Serve hot. If desired, warm maple syrup, honey, jams and preserves for delicious dipping.

Slimmed-Down Snacks and Small Plates

(Family Features) Whether you’re host- • Honey Apricot ing a party or just enjoying some down – Heat 1 cup time with friends, delicious, slimmedhoney, 3/4 cup down snacks and small plates made with low-sugar aprilean pork are the perfect solution for the cot preserves health-conscious host. and 1/3 cup cold water in a sauce Chef and registered dietitian, Michelle pan over low Dudash explains the benefits of cookheat until boiling with lean, delicious pork tenderloin. ing. Cool before “Ounce for ounce, heart-healthy pork tenserving. derloin is now as lean as a skinless chick-

en breast. That means you can enjoy serv- • Sweet and Sour ing a dish like Baked Pork Egg Rolls and – Heat 1/2 cup still stay on track with your diet.” low sugar pineapple preserves, Try serving some of these slimmed 2 tablespoons down dipping sauces with them: vinegar, 2 table• Sesame Soy – Mix 6 tablespoons lower spoons pine- Baked Pork Egg Rolls sodium soy sauce, 1/4 cup rice vinegar, apple juice, 2 2 teaspoons sesame oil and 2 teaspoons teaspoons soy sauce, 2 teaspoons ketchup, 1 honey or agave nectar.

1/2 teaspoons cornstarch and 1/2 teaspoon mild paprika over low heat until well blended and • Hot and Sweet – 1 tablespoon Asian slightly thickened. mustard, 2 tablespoons horseradish, 2 tablespoons red wine vinegar, 2 tableFor more information, including recipes to spoons lower sodium soy sauce, 1/2 tea- help you maintain a healthy diet year-round, visit spoon sweetener such as honey or agave www.PorkBeinspired.com or www.Facebook.com/ nectar.

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Baked Pork Egg Rolls Makes: 16 servings Prep time: 20 minutes Cook time: 16 minutes

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4 cups coleslaw mix 2 green onions, thinly sliced 1 c ooked pork tenderloin (1 pound), trimmed 1/2 cup chopped fresh cilantro 3 tablespoons hoisin sauce 16 egg roll wrappers Preheat the oven to 425°F. Spray large baking pan with cooking spray.

Place coleslaw mix and green onions in a medium microwave-safe bowl. Cover with wax paper and microwave on high until softened, 5 minutes. Transfer to a plate and let cool slightly.

Finely chop the tenderloin. Combine tenderloin, coleslaw mixture, cilantro and hoisin sauce in large bowl and toss to mix well.

Working with 1 egg roll wrapper at a time (keep remaining wrappers covered to prevent drying), place wrapper on a work surface with one corner pointing toward you. Brush edge of wrapper with water.

Spoon about 1/4 cup pork tenderloin mixture in the center of wrapper.

Fold bottom corner of wrapper over filling. Fold in sides and roll up. Don’t worry if your first egg roll doesn’t look perfect; you’ll master the easy technique after rolling a couple.

Place egg roll seam-side down on plate and cover with damp paper towels to prevent drying. Repeat with the remaining wrappers and filling.

Arrange egg rolls in a single layer seamside down in prepared baking pan. Lightly spray egg rolls with cooking spray. Bake until the bottoms are lightly browned, about 8 minutes.

Turn egg rolls and bake until tops are lightly browned, about 3 minutes longer.

Serve hot or warm.

Nutritional Information per Serving: Calories: 100; Fat: 1g; Saturated Fat: 0g; Cholesterol: 20 mg; Sodium: 200mg; Carbohydrates: 14g; Protein: 9g; Fiber: 1g

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Reflections

By Steve Holsey

Lookin’ good Among the newest couples to make their presence known in and outside of show business circles is singer/actress Brandy and Ryan Press. He works for Warner/Chappell Music as senior director of Urban R&B. They are engaged but have not set a wedding date.

What sets this couple apart from many others is how attractive they are together.

This is not to suggest that looking good has anything to do with Brandy and Ryan Press. solid marriages or relationship longevity, but it sure makes for great pictures!

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The king of fitness infomercials and this, too, is show business

We wish them well.

SPEAKING of new developments in relationships, by now the whole world, whether interested or not, knows that Kim Kardashian and Kanye West, who have been dating for about six months, are expecting.

Hopefully the child will be healthy — and not “inherit” Kardashian’s constant Kanye West and Kim Karneed for dashian. publicity, ditto for West’s borderline obsession with saying and doing outrageous, and sometimes completely foolish, things to keep the media and the public talking.

Wonder if Kanye has seen Kim’s graphic sex video with her previous boyfriend, Ray J. Probably. If so, maybe it heightened his desire to be with her.

The Kardashian women generally have a preference for Black men, Chloe Kardashian and basketball star Lamar Odom, for example.

I LOVE that new Chrysler video, featuring a beaming Berry Gory. It has a slick, sharp feel, makes Detroit look good (Los Angeles is also featured) and is thoroughly entertaining. You want it to last longer. And the clips of classic Motown artists interwoven into the commercial make it that much more special.

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I went right out and bought a Chrysler. (Just kidding!)

There is talk of a movie being made on Lena Horne. The long talked about biopic would star Alicia Keys, a big fan of the legendary and groundbreaking star.

She said, “Lena the woman, the human being, that is the most fascinating to me — her vulnerabilities, her life, her flow through the many difficult times, and good ones, and her ability to remain graceful, elegant and beautiful always.”

PATTI LABELLE Lena Horne is surely still feeling the sting of being ordered to pay $100,000 to Roseanna Monk. She had alleged that two years ago LaBelle, obviously in a foul mood, attempted to strike Monk in a New York City hotel lobby, as well as screaming obscenities and throwing water. (All parties wre living in the building.)

According to the lawsuit, LaBelle was furious because she thought the child was wandering around the lobby unattended, which certainly does not sound like a reason to go ballistic.

(Doesn’t really sound like something Patti would do either, but you and I weren’t there.)

Our guess is that if anything like that happens again, LaBelle will make an effort to “get a grip.” You could even call it a “new attitude.”

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et’s face it, exercise, especially today, is in some respects a form of entertainment, and if you watch television at all, odds are you are at least casually familiar with superstar fitness trainer Shaun T (full name: Shaun Thompson), whose omnipresent infomercial about his “Insanity” workout program makes an impression that can never be erased. (Billy Blanks used to be the man, but now it’s Shaun T.) The 34-year-old Thompson, who is from Camden, New Jersey, is so much into the product he is promoting that you can’t help but believe in it too, even though, if you are like most people, you know that you would never attempt this particularly difficult, but apparently effective, workout in a million years.

Even so, Thompson is so convinced that most of us can achieve what we think we cannot that he says in his infomercial, “You can frickin’ do it!” (Easy for him to say!)

It is a paradox that at a time when we are bombarded with health, diet and physical fitness information, from everyone from Jennifer Hudson to Dr. Oz, Paula Abdul to Doug Sewell, people in the United States are still in the

worst shape ever.

Evidently it is a minority of people who are going the distance with the books, the Internet programs, the videos, the gyms, the lectures, the infomercials, etc.

Motivational speaker Les Brown, laughing as he so often does, says he, with the best of intentions, bought an expensive exercise machine, but ended up using it to set his food tray on while he watched TV! OUR NATION’S first lady, Michelle Obama, is a strong advocate of physical fitness, one major project being her “Let’s Move Initiative.”

Well-meaning advocates like Jane Fonda (who started it all in 1982 with her iconic exercise video), Chuck Norris, LL Cool J, George Foreman and many others have all written books and/or produced videos. Even hard-core rapper 50 Cent is working on a book.

Endlessly surfing the Internet,

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texting, tweeting, etc., with little body movement is among the key things hurting us physically, as is our overall poor diets.

Shaun T, who has always been athletically inclined, spent much of his childhood and teen years playing baseball, running track and playing football.

He later attended Rowan University, which is located in Glassboro, New Jersey, where he earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Sports Science (something most people are not familiar with) with a minor in two other loves that would prove to be beneficial in his career, Theater/ Dance. (He now lives in New York.)

DURING HIS college years, however, Thompson was not the picture of physical fitness. In fact, much to his dismay, he managed to pack on a whopping 50 pounds.

That proved to be a wake-up call, prompting an intense interest in fitness, for himself first but in due time for others as well, and it turned out to be financial bonanza because today Shaun Thompson is a wealthy man and his empire is rapidly expanding.

He first secured health industry employment at Wyeth, a multi-national pharmaceutical company. There he worked as a health and fitness specialist/personal trainer and health program manager.

In addition, he applied his expertise and gained additional knowledge with a number of fitness chains.

When he was in college, Thompson became an aerobics instructor. Upon graduation from Rowan University he made the big, and career altering, decision to move to the West Coast, Los Angeles specifically. He started at the top: His first work as a professional dancer came by way of being hired by none other than superstar Mariah Carey.

IT WAS JUST a matter of time before Shaun Thompson would emerge as Shaun T, a key figure in the world of fitness instruction.

Beachbody, LLC asked him to submit a workout video with his own spin.

The rest, despite the cliché, is history — and history in the making.

Smart and visionary enough to utilize hip-hop music, “Hip Hop Abs,” his first project for Beachbody, sold by way of an infomercial, became the No. 1 selling workout video in the United States.

Suddenly, Shaun T was everywhere. He became a bona fide star and thousands of people worked their way to being in much better shape. No surprise that he also sells nutritional supplements and gear by way of mail order.

BlackVoices.com conducted a Q&A with the fitness megastar.

When asked if he really enjoyed what he was doing or if was essentially “a job” and a means to an end, Thompson responded, “You have no idea.

You know how people like to go out and go to happy hour and kick it with their friends? When I wake up in the morning, that’s the same feeling I have. I think, ‘I can’t wait to see how far I can push myself today.’ I just want to lead by example and for everyone to be healthy and fit.”

To say that the “Insanity” workout is intense would be, at best, putting it mildly. It takes working out to a whole new place, one that, quite frankly, scares a lot of people, but not enough to stop it from being a major success.

“I want to keep it real,” he explained in that same interview. “You’re going to have to do the work to get the results. It was inspired by my track and field training. I knew that feeling of being in the best shape when I am working that hard because there is no time for excuses.

“THE ONE THING I hate is when people say, ‘I didn’t have a good workout today.’ I wanted to create something where you’re never going to say that. You know you worked hard without spending two hours at the gym. You still get the results.”

He continued, “Beachbody did a survey with its customers and ‘Insanity’ got the highest score.

It’s created to push you and inspire you. I think of every way to help this person keep moving.

There’s nothing selfish about ‘Insanity.’ It’s not about me. It’s about the people at home who want to change their body and get healthy, and I think that’s what makes it stand apart.”

Kudos, Shaun Thompson, but these writers, and no doubt many other people, sometimes wonder what it will be like for Shaun T in, say, 20 years. Shaun T at 54.

Maybe then it will be the “Sane” workout or the “Resonable” workout.

But knowing this guy, it may well still be the “Insanity” workout.

As Shaun T would put it, “That’s what I’m talkin’ about!” — Svh/Jason Donovan

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Bass is, of course, best known for her still-heardoften classic 1960s hit “Rescue Me,” although she also charted well with “Recovery” and a Inez Andrews duet with Bobby McClure, “Don’t Mess Up a Good Thing.”

Andrews was once a member of the legendary Caravans, with whom she sang lead on their big hit “Mary Don’t You Weep.” As a solo artist, she crossed over onto the R&B charts in 1973 with the fantastic “Lord Don’t Move the Mountain.”

NeNe Leakes is one of those people I see and hear about a lot, but so help me can’t see any justification for such a massive amount of fame and media attention. I know she is known for appearing on the reality shows “The Real Housewives of Atlanta” and “Celebrity Apprentice.” Have to wonder, though, if that merits major star status. But, hey, good for her!

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Queen of Soul in Battle Creek Aretha Franklin, whose title is etched in stone in the history of popular music and rhythm ’n’ blues and who has a much-anticipated album in the works, is scheduled to perform on Friday, Jan. 11, at the FireKeepers Casino and Hotel, located at 11177 E. Michigan Ave., in Battle Creek.

The show starts at 9 p.m. Visit www.firekeeperscasino.com.

Reflections Sorry to hear about the recent passing of two great ladies of song, R&B star Fontella Bass and legendary gospel songstress Inez Andrews.

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From page D-1 personal relationship between famed R&B duo Sam & Dave (Sam Moore and Dave Prater) had deteriorated so badly that in latter days they worked together on stage and after that said nothing to each other.

MEMORIES: “A Woman Needs Love” (Just Like You Do)” (Ray Parker Jr. & Raydio), “Computer Love” (Zapp), “Shoop” (Salt-N-Pepa), “Rub You the Right Way” (Johnny Gill), “It’s So Hard to Say Goodbye to Yesterday” (Boyz II Men), “Trouble Man” (Marvin Gaye), “Boogie Down” (Eddie Kendricks), “Nasty Girl” (Vanity 6), “Fall Down (Spirit of Love)” (Tramaine), “Automatic” (the Pointer Sisters).

BLESSINGS to Shirleen Fort, Mary Grace Wilbert, Van Cephus, Georgette Jones, Ed Phillips, Deborah A. Coleman, Larry Davis, Betty DeRamus, Michael Wimberley and Donafay Collins.

WORDS OF THE WEEK, from Alan Cohen: “The more confident you are in your own truth, the less it matters whether or not anyone agrees with you.”

Let the music play!

Steve Holsey can be reached at Svh517@aol.com and PO Box 02843, Detroit, MI 48202.

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Directory of Religious Services To Be Listed Contact Linda Moragne, 963-5522, Ext. 242

AFRICAN METHODIST EPISCOPAL

BAPTIST

Allen Temple AME

9:30AM & 11AM

4101 Helen Street

(313) 922-7492

Rev. Darren K. Penson

Greater Mt. Zion Baptist

10:45AM

15600 Evanston

(313) 839-9842

Pastor R. A. Hill

Baber Memorial AME

11AM

15045 Burt Rd.

(313) 255-9895

Rev. Larry L. Simmons

Greater New Light Baptist

11AM

8641 Linwood

(313) 894-2390

Dr. David W. Roquemore

Bethel AME

10:30AM

5050 St. Antoine

(313) 831-8810

Rev. David R. Jarrett

Greater New Mt. Moriah Baptist

7:45AM & 10:30AM

586 Owen

(313) 871-8025

Rev. Kenneth J. Flowers

Bethel AME (Ann Arbor)

7:45AM & 10:45AM

900 John A Woods Dr.

(734) 663-3800

Rev. Joseph Cousin

Greater Olivet Missionary Baptist Church

10AM & 11:30AM

20201 Southfield

(313) 592-4114

Rev. Clifford L. Jackson, III

Brown Chapel AME (Ypsilanti)

8AM & 11AM

1043 W. Michigan Ave

(734) 482-7050

Pastor Jerry Hatter

Greater Shiloh Missionary Baptist

11AM

557 Benton St.

(313) 831-6466

Rev. Mark Gray

Community AME (Ecorse)

9:30AM &11AM

4010 17th Street

(313) 386-4340

Rev. Gilbert Morgan

Greater Ship of Zion Missionary Baptist

11AM

8440 Joy Rd.

(313) 933-7367

Rev. McKinley Graddick, Jr.

Ebenezer AME

7:30AM & 10:30AM

5151 W. Chicago

(313) 933-6943

Rev. Byron Moore

Greater St. John Baptist

10:45AM

7433 Northfield

(313) 895-7555

Pastor William Mebane II

Emmanuel Grace AME (formely Grace Chapel AME)

11AM

490 Conner Ave.

(313) 821-0181

Pastor Karen Jones Goodson

Greater Tree of Life Missionary Baptist

11AM

1761 Sheridan

(313) 925-1450

Rev. Latham Donald Sr.

Greater Quinn AME

11AM

13501 Rosa Parks Blvd.

(313) 867-8380

Rev. Daniel J. Reid

Hampton Memorial Missionary Baptist Church

8:30 AM & 11AM

15100 Fenkell St.

(313) 838-4447

Bishop Sidney L. Hampton II

Gregg Memorial AME

9AM

10120 Plymouth Rd.

(313) 491-1704

Dr. Charles Fontaine Macon

Hartford Memorial Baptist

7:30AM & 11AM

18700 James Couzens

(313) 861-1285

Dr. Charles G. Adams

Mitcham Chapel AME (Royal Oak)

10:45AM

4207 W. 14 Mile Rd.

(248) 356-5292

Rev. Barbara J. Anthony

Historic St. James M.B.C.

10AM

19400 Evergreen

(313) 534-3000

Rev. Argustus C. Williams

Mt. Calvary AME

11AM

1800 E. Seven Mile Rd.

(313) 892-0042

Rev. Ernest L. Evans

Holy Cross Missionary Baptist

8AM & 11AM

6220 Linwood Ave.

(313) 894-1350

Rev. Lorenzo Edwards, Sr.

New St. James AME

11AM

9321 Rosa Parks Blvd

(313) 867-2851

Rev. Minnie Autry

Holy Hope Heritage Church Baptist

8AM & 10:45 AM

18641 Wyoming

(313) 861-5005

Dr. William Revely, Jr

Newman AME (Pontiac)

11AM

233 Bagley St.

(248) 332-2800

Rev. Alfred E. Johnson

Hopewell Missionary Baptist

10:45 AM

1831 Ewald Circle

(313) 883-0808

Rev. Ted R. Spencer Jr.

Oak Grove AME

8AM & 11AM

19801 Cherrylawn

(313) 341-8877

Rev. Dr. Robert Brumfield

House of Mercy

10AM

5203 St. Aubin

(313) 923-6395

Rev. Robert W. Wright, Jr.

Pleasant Valley AME (Belleville)

11AM

45620 Victoria Ave.

(313) 461-1303

Rev. Paul Mugala

Imani Missionary Baptist

11AM

13641 W. Eight Mile

(313) 341-9556

Rev. J.K. Jackson

Ruth Chapel AME

11AM

5353 Baldwin

(313) 267-9002

Rev. Diane Chappelle

Israel Baptist

10:45 AM

3748 E. Forest Ave.

(313) 922-2633

Rev. Edward L McCree Jr.

Saunders Memorial AME

11AM

3542 Pennsylvania

(313) 921-8111

Rev. Dwayne A. Gary

Jamison Temple Missionary Baptist

11 AM

12530 Mack Ave.

(313) 821-5958

Rev. Homer & Evang. Royal Jamison

Smith Chapel AME (Inkster)

11AM

3505 Walnut

(313) 561-2837

Rev. Dr. Cecilia Green-Bar

Jude Missionary Baptist

11AM

9036 Van Dyke

(313) 925-9330

Rev. Sylvester F. Harris, Sr.

St. Andrew AME

9:30AM & 11AM

12517 Linwood

(313) 868-3156

Rev. Kenneth Boyd

Kadesh Missionary Baptist

8AM & 11AM

20361 Plymouth Rd.

(313) 534-5382

Rev. Dr. Gregory L. Foster, Sr.

St. Luke AME

11AM

363 LaBelle

(313) 868-7707

Rev. Robert Addison Blake

King David M.B.C. of Detroit

11AM

18001 Sunset

(313) 891-4160

Pastor Sterling H. Brewer

St. Luke AME (Roseville)

11AM

17805 Oakdale Street

(586) 445-8350

Rev. Twylla B. Lucas

Leland Missionary Baptist

8AM & 11AM

22420 Fenkell Ave.

(313) 538-7077

Rev. C.A. Poe, Ph.D

St. John AME (River Rouge)

10:45 AM

505 Beechwood

(313) 386-2288

Rev. Gerald D. Cardwell

Liberty Temple Baptist Church

7:45AM & 10:45AM

17188 Greenfield

(313) 837-6331

Rev. Dr. Steve Bland, Jr.

St. Matthew AME

11 AM

9746 Petoskey

(313) 894-3633

Rev. Gloria Clark

Little Rock Baptist Church

11 AM

9000 Woodward Ave.

(313) 872-2900

Rev. Jim Holley

St. Paul AME (Detroit)

10 AM

2260 Hunt St.

(313) 567-9643

Rev. Andre L. Spivey

Macedonia Missionary Baptist (Pontiac)

7:30 AM & 10AM

512 Pearsall St.

(248) 335-2298

Rev. Terrance J. Gowdy

St. Paul AME (Southwest)

9:30AM & 11AM

579 S. Rademacher

(313) 843-8090

Rev. Jeffrey Baker

Mark’s Tabernacle Missionary Baptist

11AM

15757 Wyoming

(313) 863-8090

Pastor J. Leonard Jones

St. Peter AME

10:45AM

948 Watling Blvd.

Rev. Kim Howard

Martin Evans Baptist Church

11:15AM

11025 Gratiot

(313) 526-0328

Rev. Thermon Bradfield, Pastor

St Stephen AME

10AM

6000 John E. Hunter Drive

(313) 895-4800

Dr. Michael A. Cousin

Messiah Baptist

10:45AM

8100 W. Seven Mile Rd.

(313) 864-3337

Pastor Orville K. Littlejohn

Trinty AME

10:45AM

6516 16TH St.

(313) 897-4320

Rev. Dr. Alice Patterson

Metropolitan Baptist

10:45AM

13110 14th Street

(313) 869-6676

Rev. Dr. Charles Clark, Jr.

Vernon Chapel AME

11AM

18500 Norwood St.

(313) 893-5275

Rev. Larry James Bell

Mt. Calvary Missionary Baptist

11AM

4741-43 Iroquois

(313) 924-6090

Vinson Chapel AME (Clinton Twp.)

11AM

22435 Quinn Rd

(586) 792-2130

Rev. Arnita Traylor

Mt. Carmel Missionary Baptist

11AM

7432 Oakland Ave.

(313) 872-4630

Visitor’s Chapel AME

10:45AM

4519 Magnolia Street

(313) 898-2510

Rev. Anita McCants

Mt. Nebo Missionary Baptist

10:45AM

8944 Mack Ave

(313) 571-0041

Pastor Henry Crenshaw

Mt. Olive Baptist

10:45AM

9760 Woodward Ave.

(313) 871-5854

Rev. Harold H. Cadwell, Jr.

Mt. Pleasant Missionary Baptist

8AM & 10AM

21150 Moross Rd.

(313) 884-6648

Pastor James Minnick

Mt. Valley Missionary Baptist

9:30AM & 11AM

14718 Fenkell

(313) 272-0428

Dr. E. C. Garrison Rev. Damon Pierson

AFRICAN METHODIST EPISCOPAL ZION

Rev. Marvin Youmans

Clinton Chapel AME Zion

11AM

3401 23rd Street

(313) 897-5866

Pastor Ronald L. Bailey

Mt. Zion Missionary Baptist (Ecorse)

7:30AM & 10:50AM

3936 12th St.

(313) 383-1069

Greater St. Peters AME Zion

11AM

4400 Mt. Elliott

(313) 923-3161

Rev. Anthony Johnson

Nazarene Missionary Baptist Church

11AM

901 Melbourne

(313) 871-6509

Rev. Oscar A. E. Hayes

Lomax Temple AME Zion

8AM & 11AM

17441 Dequindre

(313) 893-1463

Rev. Brian Relford

New Bethel Baptist

7:30AM & 10:45AM

8430 C. L. Franklin Blvd.

(313) 894-5788

Rev. Robert Smith Jr.

Metropolitan AME Zion

11AM

17816 Woodward

(313) 869-5150

Rev. George A. Stewart

New Bethlehem Baptist

9:15AM & 10:45AM

19018 Hawthorne

(313) 366-1872

St. Paul AME Zion

10:30AM

11359 Dexter

(313) 933-1822

Rev. Eleazar Merriweather

New Bethlehem Missionary Baptist

11AM

3061 Ewald Circle

(313) 931-0559

St. Peter AME Zion

11AM

3056 Yemans

(313) 875-3877

Rev. Michael Nelson

New Birth Baptist Church

8AM & 11AM

27628 Avondale

(313) 563-1705

Rev. Joseph A. Stephens

John Wesley AME Zion (Southfield)

7:30AM & 10:45AM

28001 Evergreen

(248) 358-9307

Rev. Al Hamilton

New Calvary Baptist

10:30AM

3975 Concord St.

(313) 923-1600

Dr. Michael C.R. Nabors

New Faith Baptist Church

11:15AM

19961McIntyre

(313) 533-0679

Rev. McKinley A. Williams

New Greater Christ Baptist

11AM

13031 Charlevoix

(313) 331-2386

Rev. Dr. William O. Thompson

New Greater Oregon St. John

10.40AM

8010 Manor

(313) 931-1850

Rev. Robert L. Sykes

New Heritage Baptist

10:45AM

11226 E. Jefferson Ave.

(313) 837-4912

Rev. Jobe C. Hughley

APOSTOLIC

Rev. Arthur L. Turner

Abundant Life A.O.H. Church of God

11:30AM

437 S. Livernois

(313) 843-4339

Rev. Charles A. Bailey

New Jerusalem Temple Baptist

11AM

17330 Fenkell

(313) 836-8970

Rev. Lawrence J. London

Aimwell Apostolic Church

11:30AM

5632 Montclair

(313) 922-3591

Elder H. Seals

New Liberty Baptist Church

8AM & 11AM

2965 Meldrum

(313) 921-0118

Rev. Dr. Maurice Strimage, Jr., Pastor

Apostolic Church of God In Christ

11:15AM

5296 Tireman

(313) 894-2522

Rev. Gilbert Allen

New Life Community Church (Romulus)

11AM

35761 Van Born Rd

(734) 968-0105

Rev. Billy J. Hales

Apostolic Faith Temple

11AM

4735 W. Fort Street

(313) 843-3660

Bishop Lambert Gates

New Life MBC of Detroit

11AM

8300 Van Dyke

(313) 923-3111

Pastor Edison Ester, Jr.

Apostolic Temple

11:45AM

5201 French Rd.

(313) 826-6487

Bishop Derrick C. McKinney

New Light Baptist

10:45 AM

5240 W. Chicago

(313) 931-1111

Rev. Frederick L. Brown, Sr., Pastor

Bethel Christian Ministries (Oak Park)

12:30PM

13500 Oak Park Blvd.

(248) 424-5584

Bishop Donald E. Burwell

New Mt. Moriah Missionary Baptist

11AM

13100 Woodward Ave.

(313) 869-0190

Rev. Dr. Jerome Kirby

Bethel Church of the Apostolic Faith

11AM

3381 Mack Ave.

(313) 579-2765

Elder John M. Lucas

New Mt. Pleasant Baptist

11AM

2127 East Canfield

(313) 831-4669

Rev. Willie Smith

Bethlehem Temple

11AM

16238 Joy Road

(313) 273-5699

Elder Samuel Hemmingway

New Mt. Vernon Baptist

11AM

521 Meadowbrook

(313) 331-6146

Rev. Dr. Edward R. Knox

Bethlehem Temple Church of Detroit

12 Noon

5594 Pennsylvania St.

(313) 923-4860

Pastor Brenda Waller

New Mt. Zion Missionary Baptist

10:45 AM

2201 Elmhurst

(313) 868-7240

Rev. Jimmie T. Wafer

Calvary Apostolic Ministries (Southfield)

11:30AM

18347 W. McNichols

(313) 541-8728

Elder William E. Watson II

New Prospect Missionary Baptist

7:30AM & 11AM

6330 Pembroke

(313) 341-4883

Rev. Dr. Wilma R. Johnson

Christ Temple Apostolic Church (Westland)

11:15AM

29124 Eton St.

(734) 326-3833

District Elder Luke A. McClendon

New Providence Baptist

8AM & 11AM

18211 Plymouth

(313) 837-0818

Rev. Everett N. Jennings

Christ Temple Apostolic Faith Inc.

11:30AM

3907 30th Street

(313) 897-6132

Bishop James Garrett

New Resurrection Missionary Baptist

11AM

7718 W. McNichols

(313) 862-3466

Rev. Arthur Caldwell III

Christ Temple, City of Refuge (Inkster)

12 Noon

27741 Carlysle

(313) 278-8282

Elder L. C. Barnes, Jr.

New Salem Baptist

11AM

2222 Illinois St.

(313) 833-0640

Rev. Kevin H. Johnson, Pastor

Clinton Street Greater Bethlehem Temple

12 Noon

2900 W. Chicago Blvd.

(313) 361-1110

Bishop Shedrick L. Clark, Sr.

New St. Mark Baptist

7:30AM & 10AM

24331 W. 8 Mile Rd.

(313) 541-3846

Rev. Larry Smith

Corinthian Apostolic Faith

11AM

19638 Plymouth Rd.

(313) 836-0380

Elder Benjamin S. Hoke, Sr.

New St. Paul Baptist

10:45AM

2101 Lakewood

(313) 824-2060

Rev. Tolan J. Morgan

Deliverance Temple of Faith Ministries

11AM

9600 Woodlawn

(313) 923-3545

Elder Gary R. Gay, Sr.

New St. Peter’s Missionary Baptist

11AM

1600 Pingree

(313) 871-6969

Rev. Walter K. Cheeks

Faith Reconciliation Tabernacle Center Inc.

11AM

16599 Meyers

(313) 345-3849

Pastor Ray Johnson

Northwest Unity Missionary

11AM

8345 Ellsworth

(313) 863-8820

Rev. Dr. Oscar W. King III

Family Worship Center (Ecorse)

9:30AM & 11AM

4411 Fifth Street

(313) 381-9860

Pastor Tommy L. Lyons

Oasis of Hope

10AM

933 W. Seven Mile Rd.

(313) 891-2645

Pastor Claude Allen May

First United Church of Jesus Christ

11:30AM

8061 Joy Rd.

(313) 834-8811

Bishop Cleven L. Jones, Sr.

Overcomers Evangel Missionary Baptist

11AM

20045 James Couzens Hwy. (313) 861-9144

Rev. C. Kenneth Dexter

Grace Christian Church

11AM & 7PM

16001 W. 7 Mile Rd.

(313) 272-6111

Elder Billy Owens

Peace Missionary Baptist

10:30AM

13450 Goddard

(313) 368-2304

Rev. David L. Jefferson, Sr.

Greater Christ Temple (Ferndale)

11:30AM

210 Hilton Rd.

(248) 414-3700

Presiding Bishop Carl E. Holland

Pilgrim Star Missionary Baptist Church

12 Noon

5619 14th Street

(313) 361-2542

Pastor Billy Hall

Greater Grace Temple

7:30AM & 11AM

23500 W. Seven Mile Rd.

(313) 543-6000

Bishop Charles Haywood Ellis III

Pine Grove Baptist

10:45AM

1833 S. Electric

(313) 381-7882

Rev. Debirley Porter

Greater Grace Temple O.G.H.M. (Taylor)

11AM

24111 Koths

(313) 295-4472

Suff. Bishop Gary Harper

Pleasant Grove MBC

8AM & 10:45AM

13651 Dequindre

(313) 868-8144

Pastor Louis Forsythe II

Greater Second Ebenezer Apostolic Faith

11:45 AM

14118 Rosa Parks Blvd.

(313) 869-7783

Pastor O.B. Mahone, Jr.

Holy Temple

11:30 AM

8590 Esper Blvd

(313) 416-2166

Pastor Pamela Dixon

Renaissance Baptist 10:30AM 1045 East Grand Blvd.

(313) 922-7287

Rev. Edwin H. Holmes, Pastor Rev. Dale Weathers, Assoc. Pastor

Immanuel House of Prayer

11AM

147 E. Grand Blvd.

(313) 567-1871

Bishop Thomas L. Johnson, Sr.

Rosedale Park Baptist

10AM

14179 Evergreen

(313) 538-1180

Rev. Haman Cross, Jr.

Independent Apostolic Assembly

10:30AM & 6:30PM

16111 W. Eight Mile

(313) 838-0456

Bishop Charles C. McRae III

Russell Street Baptist

11AM

8700 Chrysler Fwy. Dr.

(313) 875-1615

Rev. Dee M. Coleman

Jesus Christ Apostolic

11:30AM

13341 Gratiot

(313) 371-8611

Pastor M. L. Jennings

Samaritan Missionary Baptist

10AM

8806 Mack Ave.

(313) 571-9797

Rev. Robert E. Starghill, Sr.

Mt. Sinai House of Prayer

11:30AM & 7PM

6462 Van Dyke

(313) 925-7050

Bishop Samuel Moore

Second Baptist Church of Detroit

8AM & 10:30AM

441 Monroe Street

(313) 961-0920

Rev. Kevin M. Turman

New Greater Bethlehem Temple Community

11:30AM

3763 16th Street

(313) 386-3055

Elder Anthony V. Price

Shady Grove Baptist

11 AM

2741 McDougall

(313) 923-1393

Pastor Roger Carson, Jr.

New Liberty Apostolic Faith

11:30AM

8425 Fenkell Ave.

(313) 342-2423

Bishop G.M. Boone D.D.

Smyrna Missionary Baptist Church

11:30AM

12728 Grand River

(313) 491-3190

Dr. Charles E. Marshall Sr.

New Life Assembly (Southfield)

12:30PM

27800 Southfield Rd.

(248) 851-3189

Elder Ronald B. Dalton

Springhill Missionary Baptist

7:45AM & 11AM

21900 Middlebelt Rd.

(248) 306-5450

Rev. Ronald Garfield Arthur

New Mt. Olives Apostolic Faith

11:30AM

2676 Hendrie

(313) 337-2027

Dr. Jeffrey I. Harris

St. Bartholomew - St Rita

Sat. 4PM | Sun. 9AM &11AM

2291 E. Outer Drive

(313) 892-1446

Rev. Ronald A. Borg

Pentecostal Church of Jesus Christ (Eastpointe)

11:15AM

16226 E. Nine Mile

(586) 772-2336

Pastor Keith L. Spiller, Sr.

St. James Missionary Baptist

10AM

9912 Kercheval

(313) 822-9322

Pastor Karl Reid

Pentecostal Temple

11:30AM

750 Alter Rd.

(313) 824-8437

Bishop Dr. Charles M. Laster

St. Luke of Detroit

11:30AM

11832 Petoskey

(313) 912-6270

Bishop Chris C. Gardner III

Solomon’s Cathedral C.O.O.L.J. of the Apostolic Faith Inc.

11AM

19538 Schoolcraft

(313) 273-2992

Bishop Anthony David Crawford

St. Matthew Missionary Baptist

8AM & 11AM

13500 Wyoming

(313) 933-3722

Rev. David L. Lewis

St. Paul Apostolic Temple

11AM

17400 Manderson

(313) 861-2784

Bishop Benjamin S. Hoke

St Missionary Baptist Church

10AM

9212 Kercheval

(313) 372-5426

Rev David L. Brown

True Light Temple

11AM

8730 Harper

(313) 922-4500

Elder Michael Mitchell

St. Phillip’s Baptist MBC

9:30AM & 11:30AM

7307 Livernois

(313) 894-8123

Rev. Alvin D. Hodges, Sr.

True Worship Church

11AM

803 Cottrell

(313) 834-1697

Pastor Lovell Cannon Jr.

Tabernacle Missionary Baptist

8AM & 11AM

2080 W. Grand Blvd.

(313) 898-3325

Rev Nathan Johnson

Unity Temple of the Apostolic Faith

11AM

17376 Wyoming Ave.

(313) 862-3700

Pastor Steven Staten

Temple of Faith Baptist

10:45AM

14834 Coram Ave.

(313) 526-1400

Rev. Alan J. Jones

Word of Life Temple of Jesus Christ

11AM

19391 Conant

(313) 368-8630

Bishop Carl Noble, Sr., Pastor

Tennessee Missianary Baptist

11AM

2100 Fischer

(313) 823-4850

Rev. Milbrun L. Pearson, II

Zion Hill Church (Berkley)

12:15AM

3688 Twelve Mile Rd.

(248) 548-9466

Pastor Clarence Hawkins III

Thankful Missionary Baptist Church

11AM

2449 Carpenter St.

(313) 365-5519

Rev. Charles Hubbert

The Calvary Baptist Church

7:45AM & 10:45AM

1000 Robert Bradby Drive

(313) 567-4575

Rev. Lawrence T. Foster

Third Baptist Church

11AM

582 East Ferry

(313) 874-4133

Rev. Fred L. Gilbert

BAPTIST

Third New Hope Baptist Church

8AM/10AM & 12Noon

12850 Plymouth Rd.

(313) 491-7890

E. L. Branch, Senior Pastor

Aijalon Baptist

10:45AM

6419 Beechwood

(313) 895-7283

Rev. Dr. Curtis C. Williams

Triumph Missionary Baptist Church

8AM/9:30AM/11AM

2550 S. Liddesdale

(313) 386-8044

Rev. Solomon Kinloch, Jr.

Bethany Baptist Church

11AM

15122 W. Chicago Blvd.

(313) 836-7667

Rev. Dr. Samuel H. Bullock, Jr.

True Light Missionary Baptist

11AM

2504 Beniteau

(313) 822-3170

Rev. Alton M. Reid

Bethel Baptist Church East

7:30AM & 10:45AM

5715-33 Holcomb

(313) 923-3060

Dr. Michael Andrew Owens

True Love Missionary Baptist Church

7AM & 11:15AM

8200 Tireman

(313) 931-1177

Rev. Herbert B. Robinson, Jr.

Bethesda Missionary

10:15AM

8801 David St.

(313) 571-0095

Pastor Edward Holly

Twelfth Street Missionary Baptist

10:45AM

1840 Midland

(313) 868-2659

Rev. Floyd A. Davis

Beulah Missionary Baptist (Westland)

10AM

5651 Middlebelt

(734) 595-6146

Rev. Kenneth C. Pierce

Union Baptist

11:30AM

1754 E. Grand Blvd.

(313) 922-2557

Rev. Patrick L. Franklin

Central Institutional M.B.C

10:45AM

15170 Archdale

(313) 836-2933

Vacant

Union Grace Missionary Baptist

10:30AM

2550 W. Grand Blvd.

(313) 894-2500

Rev. Reginald E. Smith

Chapel Hill Baptist

7:45AM & 10:45AM

5000 Joy Road

(313) 931-6805

Rev. Dr. R. LaMont Smith II

Union Second Baptist (River Rouge)

10:45AM

459 Beechwood St.

(313) 383-5559

Rev. Kenneth L. Brown

Christ Cathedral Baptist

11AM

6115 Hartford

(313) 895-1999

Rev. George R. Williams, Jr.

United Missionary Baptist (Pontiac)

11AM

471 S. Boulevard

(248) 332-8917

Pastor Wardell Milton

Christ Reformed Baptist

11 AM

13576 Lesure

(313) 836-8507

Rev. Willie Williams

United Prayer Temple Baptist Church

11AM

15003 Fairfield

(313) 342-4011

Rev. Anthony L. Caudle, Sr.

Christian Chapel Community Baptist

11:30AM

22930 Chippewa

(248) 624-7675

Rev. George B. Glass, Jr.

Victory Fellowship Baptist Church

10:15AM

17401 East Warren Ave.

(313) 886-3541

Rev. Darryl S. Gaddy Sr.

Christ’s Mission Missionary Baptist

10:45AM

3712 Preston

(313) 579-9590

Rev. Howard R. Ramsey

Warren Ave. Missionary Baptist

7:30AM & 10:30AM

1042-44 East Warren Ave.

(313) 831-5990

Rev. Bernard Smith

Christland Missionary Baptist

10:45AM

12833 Puritan

(313) 341-0366

Rev. Allen O. Langford

Williams Chapel Missionary Baptist

10:45AM

3100 Elmwood

(313) 579-0875

Rev. James C. Jones

Church of God Baptist

11 AM

12000 Grand River

(313) 834-1265

Rev. Clifford D. Burrell, M. DIV.

Wings of Love Baptist

10:45AM

17133 John R.

(313) 867-7411

Rev. Alvin E. Jackson

Church of the New Covenant Baptist

10:45AM

3426 Puritan Ave.

(313) 864-6480

Rev. Brian Martin Ellison

Zion Hope Missionary Baptist

7:30AM & 10:45AM

4800 Van Dyke

(313) 921-3967

Rev. Curtis R. Grant Jr.

Church of Our Faith

10:45AM

2561 Beniteau

(313) 821-3627

Rev. William Anderson

Zion Hill Baptist Church

11AM

12017 Dickerson

Church of Our Father MBC

8AM & 10:45AM

5333 E. 7 Mile

(313) 891-7626

Rev. Bernard Byles

Zion Progress Baptist

11:00 AM

Conventional Missionary Baptist

11AM

2255 Seminole

(313) 922-4010

Pastor Roderick L. Richardson

Corinthian BC (Hamtramck)

8AM & 10:45AM

1725 Caniff Street

(313) 868-7664

Rev. Dr. Joseph R. Jordan

Cosmopolitan Baptist

10:30AM

17131 St. Aubin

(313) 893-6163

Pastor Senoise Clemons, Jr.

Dexter Avenue Baptist MBC

7:45AM & 10:45AM

13500 Dexter

(313) 869-4878

El Bethel Missionary MBC

8AM, 10AM & 12NOON

25295 Grand River

(313) 532-7897

Lawrence C. Glass, Jr., Pastor

Christ the King

10AM

20800 Grand River

(313) 532-1211

Rev. Victor Clore

Elim Baptist

11 AM

19333 Lahser Rd.

(313) 533-7285

Rev. Charles D. Oliver

Church of the Madonna

9AM

1125 Oakman Blvd.

(313) 868-4308

Msgr. Michael Le Fevre

El-Shaddai Missionary Baptist (Ferndale)

8AM & 11AM

928 E. 10 Mile

(248) 548-5683

Rev. Benny Holmes

Corpus Christi

9 AM

16000 Pembroke

(313) 272-0990

Rev. Donald Archambault

Elyton Missionary Baptist

8AM & 10:45AM

8903 St. Cyril

(313) 921-4072

Rev. John D. Kelly

GESU Catholic Church

5PM Sat & 8 & 10:30AM Sun.

17180 Oak Drive

(313) 862-4400

Rev. R. Scullin, S.J.

7835 E. Layfayette

(313) 372-3987 (313) 331-8244

Rev. Dan Flowers Rev. Dr. Allyson Abrams

CATHOLIC

Emmanuel MBC

11AM

13230 W. McNichols

(313) 927-2627

Rev. Frederick Lee Brown, Sr.

Good Shepherd Catholic

10AM

1265 Parkview

(313) 822-1262

Fr. Michael NKachukwu

First Baptist S.W.

8AM & 11AM

7642 Gould @ Crossley

(313) 841-4866

Rev. Garrund Woolridge

Martyrs of Uganda

11AM-Sat. 9AM

7601 Rosa Parks Blvd.

(313) 896-2335

Fr. Tyrone Robinson

First Baptist World Changers Int’l. Min.

11AM

22575 W. Eight Mile Rd.

(313) 255-0212

Pastor Lennell D. Caldwell

Our Lady of Good Counsel

Sun. 9:30AM - Sat. 4PM

17142 Rowe St.

(313) 372-1698

Rev. Robert J. Kotlarz

First Greater St. Paul Baptist

8AM & 10:45AM

15325 Gratiot Avenue

(313) 839-4000

Dr. Ricardo Bartlett, Sr.

Presentation/Our Lady of Victory

10:30AM

19760 Meyers Rd.

(313) 342-1333

Rev. Hubert Sanders

First Baptist Institutional

10AM

17101 W. Seven Mile Rd.

(313) 835-5477

Rev. Ryan Johnson

Sacred Heart of Jesus

8AM /10AM

3451 Rivard St.

(313) 831-1356

Rev. Norman P. Thomas

First Missionary Baptist (Ecorse)

7:30AM &10:45AM

3837 15th Street

(313) 381-2700

Rev. Alfred L. Davis Jr.

St. Aloysius Church

11:30AM - Sat. 4PM

1234 Washington Blvd.

(313) 237-5810

Fr. Mark Soehner, O.F.M.

First Progressive Missionary Baptist

9:20AM & 11AM

10103 Gratiot

(313) 925-9377

Dr. R. W. McClendon

St. Augustine and St. Monica

10AM

4151 Seminole Street

(313) 921-4107

Rev. Daniel Trapp

First Union Missionary Baptist

10:45AM

5510 St. Aubin

(313) 571-3043

Rev. Frank J. Knolton

St. Cecilia

8:30AM & 10AM

10400 Stoepel

(313) 933-6788

Fr. Theodore Parker

Flowery Mount Baptist

11:15AM

13603 Linwood

(313) 869-2567

Rev. Daniel Moore

St. Gerard

8AM /11AM/4PM Sat.

19800 Pembroke

(313) 537-5770

Rev. Donald Archambault

Gethsemane Missionary Baptist (Westland)

8AM & 10AM

29066 Eton St.

(734) 721-2557

Rev. Dr. John E. Duckworth

St. Gregory The Great

11AM

15031 Dexter

(313) 861-0363

Msgr. Michael Le Fevre

God’s House of Prayer Baptist

11AM & 4PM

3606 25th St.

(313) 894-6739

Rev. Michael L. Townsell

St. Luke

11:30 AM - Sat. 4PM

8017 Ohio Ave.

(313) 935-6161

Fr. Tyrone Robinson

Good Shepherd Missionary Baptist

10:45AM

20915 Evergreen Rd.

(248) 353-4368

Rev. Dr. Herbert G. Ford

St. Matthew

10 AM - Sat. 4:30PM

6021 Whittier

(313) 884-4470

Rev. Duane R. Novelly

Great Commission Baptist

11AM

19250 Riverview

(313) 255-7995

Rev. Al Bufkin

St. Patrick

9:30AM

58 Parsons St.

(313) 833-0857

Fr. Mark Soehner, OFM

Greater Burnette Baptist

8AM & 10:30AM & 6PM 16801 Schoolcraft

(313) 837-0032

Rev. Dr. Nathaniel Caldwell

St. Raymond Church

Sun. 11AM - Sat. 4:30PM

20103 Joann St.

(313) 577-0525

Fr. Robert Kotlavz

Greater Christ Baptist

8AM & 10:45AM

3544 Iroquois

(313) 924-6900

Rev. James C. Perkins

St. Rita

9AM & 11:30AM

1000 E. State Fair

(313) 366-2340

Fr. Tim Kane

Greater Concord Missionary Baptist

9:30AM & 11AM

4500 East Davison Rd.

(313) 891-6800

Dr. Cullian W. Hill, Pastor

St. Peter Claver Catholic Community

10AM Sun.

13305 Grove Ave.

(313) 342-5292

Rev. James O’Reilly, S.J.

Greater Ephesian Baptist

10:45AM

9403 Oakland

(313) 867-3889

Rev. Jerry Lee James

Sts. Peter & Paul (Jesuit)

11AM & 7:35 PM

438 St. Antoine

(313) 961-8077

Fr. Carl A. Bonk

Greater Macedonia Baptist

10:45AM

8200 Mack Ave.

(313) 923-5588

Rev. Wallace Bell

St. Suzanne/Our Lady Gate of Heaven

Sat. 5:30PM - Sun. 9AM

19321 W. Chicago

(313) 838-6780

Fr. Robert McCabe

Greater Mt. View Missionary Baptist

11AM

4211 Mt. Elliott

(313) 924-2500

Pastor Edward Smith

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NON-DENOMINATIONAL

CHRISTIAN CHURCH (DISCIPLES OF CHRIST) Renaissance Christian Church

10:30AM

18101 James Couzens

(313) 341-7025

Rev. Antonio Harlan

Action Outreach Church

10AM & 11:30AM

12908 W. 7 Mile Rd.

(313) 345-3016

A.C. Goodman, Pastor

Serenity Christian Church

11AM

5801 E. 7 Mile

(313) 892-3550

Rev. John C. Harvey

Almighty God Missionary Tabernacle

10:30AM

2708 Joseph Campau

(313) 921-0848

Rev. Dr. Minnie L. Lacy

Bible Standard Church of God

11AM

9600 Woodlawn

(313) 921-9741

Rev. Samuel Oree

Body of Christ International

11AM

11780 Ohio

(313) 491-2102

Bishop Kenneth L. Tate

Body of Christ Community of Faith

10:30AM

18100 Meyers Rd.

(313) 345-9106

Rev. Benjamin Prince

Bride Of Christ

11AM

12400 Kelly

(313) 371-3236

Rev. Bill McCullum

Calvary Church of Jesus Christ

11:15AM

6318 Varney

(313) 922-3877

Pastor L.C. Gray

Canton Christian Fellowship

8AM & 10:30AM

8775 Ronda Drive

(734) 404-2408

David Washington, Jr.

Cathedral of Faith

10:30AM

13925 Burt Rd.

(313) 533-9673

Rev. Lee A. Jackson

Cathedral of Hope

11AM

17561 Jos. Campau

(313) 366-4234

Rev. Robert Thomas, Sr.

Christ Covenant Church

9:30AM & 11:30AM

10213 Hamilton Ave.

(313) 883-2203

Rev. Authur L. Gooden

Church of Universal Truth

11:30AM

13038 E. McNichols

(313) 371-4839

Rev. Adrian Harris

Community Church of Christ

11AM

11811 Gratiot Ave.

(313) 839-7268

Pastor R. A. Cranford

Craig Memorial Tabernacle

10:45AM

14201 Puritan

(313) 838-4882

Rev. James L. Craig II

Deeper Life Gospel Center (Redford)

11AM

20601 Beech Daly

(313) 794-0975

Rev. Wade A. Bell, Sr.

Deliverance Center

10AM

340 West Grand Blvd.

(313) 297-7773

Bishop Gregg A. Booker

Dove Christian Center Church

11AM

4660 Military

(313) 361-Dove

Pastors Lucell & Marcella Trammer

Eastside Church of God (Sanctified)

11:30AM

2900 Gratiot Ave.

(313) 567-7822

Bishop William K. Lane D.D.

Family Victory Fellowship Church (Southfield)

8AM & 11AM

19421 W. 10 Mile Rd

(248) 354-1990

Pastor Larry T. Jordan

Fellowship Chapel, U.C.C.

9:30 AM

7707 W. Outer Drive

(313) 347-2820

Rev. Wendell Anthony

Full Truth Fellowship Church

11:30AM

4458 Joy Rd.

(313) 896-0233

Rev. Darlene C.A. Franklin

Grace Out-Reach Ministry

10:30AM

15251 Harper

(313) 885-1927

Bishop J. Ward, Jr.

Greater Heritage of Christ Church

11:30 AM

19471 James Couzen

Rev. Tracy Lamont Bell

Greater Life Christian (Pontiac)

10AM

65 E. Huron

(313) 334-1166

Eld. Ellington L. Ellis, Senior Pastor

Hill’s Chapel

11:30AM

6100 Linwood

(313) 896-9460

Rev. V. Broadnax

Interfaith Church

11AM

1923 23rd Street

(810) 985-5555

Rev. Link Howard III

Lighthouse Cathedral

10:30AM & 12Noon

15940 Puritan Ave

(313) 273-1110

Bishop Charlie H. Green

Metropolitan Temple

11AM

20099 Fenkell

(313) 533-8063

Rev. Byron Ammons

New Birth Church of Christ

11AM

8021 Linwood

(313) 897-1531

Rev. Keith Cooper

New Foundation Christian Ctr.

11AM

7759 Fenkell

(313) 862-0657

Pastor Marshall Hall

New Galilee Spiritual Church

11AM

8025 Harper St.

(313) 571-2108

Bishop M. J. Moore Sr.

New Life! Christian Ministries, Inc.

10:30AM

2415 W. Forest Ave.

(313) 894-9394

Pastor Jacquelyn L. Rhodes

New Testament Worship Center

11:15AM

14451 Burt Rd.

(313) 592-8134

Pastors Samuel & Sarah Davis

Perfecting the Saints of God Church

11:30AM

13803 Newbern

(313) 368-8973

Bishop W.E. Hollowell

Puritan Street Church of Christ

11:15AM

19451 Conant

(313) 893-2197

Pastor Mary R. Ealy

Restoration Christian Fellowship

10AM

22575 W. 8 Mile Rd.

(313) 255-0212

Pastor Paul Bersche

Restoration International Christian Ministries

4PM

18140 Cornell Rd.

(248) 352-9256

Rev. Dr. Ronald F. Turner

Right Spirit Christian Church

10AM

16250 Northland Dr.

(313) 837-7510

Rev. Jacquelyn Willis

Shekinah Tabernacle Gospel Church

10AM

16900 W. Chicago

(313) 835-0283

Elder Risarg “Reggie” Huff

CHRISTIAN METHODIST EPISCOPAL Carter Metropolitan CME

10:45AM

1510-12 W. Grand Blvd.

(313) 895-6744

Rev. Dr. Faith A. Allen

Central CME

11AM

7600 Tireman

(313) 931-0592

Rev. Patricia Havis

Coggins Memorial CME

11AM

4900 Hurlbut

Rev. Donte Townsend

Grace CME

10:45AM

642 W. McNichols

(313) 862-4774

Rev. Dr. Barbara Delaney

Greater New Bethany CME (Romulus)

11AM

35757 Vinewood

(313) 326-0210

Rev. Christopher Hale

Hamlett Temple CME

11AM

13600 Wyoming

Rev. Dr. Robert Holt

Isom Memorial CME (Belleville)

11:15AM

23612 Sumpter Rd.

(734) 461-2200

Rev. Prince Albert Williams

Missionary Temple CME

11AM

18134 Lumpkin

(313) 893-2685

Rev. Eugene Warford

Peace CME

11AM

4613 Chene

(313) 832-5929

Rosebrough/Bunton CME

11AM

15001 Quincy

(313) 341-0524

Rev. Fred Moore Jr.

St. John’s CME

10:30AM

8715 Woodward Ave.

(313) 872-5663

Rev. Joseph Gordon

Womack Temple CME (Inkster)

11AM

28445 Cherry St.

(734) 326-4822

Rev. Tyson Kelly

CHURCH OF CHRIST Church of Christ of Conant Gardens

11AM

18460 Conant

(313) 893-2438

John H. Mayberry, Jr.

Holy Redeemer Church of Christ

12NOON & 3PM

7145 Harper

(313) 342-7628

Bishop J. Hatcher

New Cameron Ave. Church of Christ

11AM & 6PM

7825 Cameron

(313) 875-8132

Lucky Dawson, Minister

Northwest Church of Christ

11AM

5151 Oakman Blvd.

(313) 834-0562

Patrick Medlock/Stanley Daniel

Westside Church of Christ

11AM & 5PM

6025 Woodrow

(313) 898-6121

Jerrold D. Mcullough, Minister

Wyoming Church of Christ

9:15AM/10:30AM & 6PM 20131 Wyoming

(313) 345-6780

Dallas A. Walker Jr., Minster

CHURCH OF GOD IN CHRIST All God’s People Ministries

11AM

7013 E. Seven Mile Rd.

(313) 492-5009

Apostle W. J. Rideout III - Sr., Pastor

Anderson Memorial C.O.G.I.C.

11AM

17860 Jos. Campau

(313) 366-1407

Supt. Charles J. Johnson III

Bailey Temple C.O.G.I.C.

11:15AM

5370 McKinley Ave.

(313) 898-7996

Elder Randall L. Greenwood

Calvary C.O.G.I.C.

11AM

15025 Fenkell

(313) 836-6939

Elder David L. Wells

Christian Gospel Center

11:30AM

19901 Kentucky

(313) 345-9160

Rev. Marcus R. Ways

Conquerors of Faith Ministries COGIC

11AM

13100 Puritan

(313) 862-5467

Pastor S.A. Moore

Covenant Missionary Temple (Roseville)

9:30AM & Sun. 11AM

28491 Utica Rd.

(810) 776-9235

Elder Jay L. Burns

East Grand Blvd. C.O.G.I.C.

11AM

1432 East Grand Blvd.

(313) 922-1464

Bishop Elton A. Lawrence

East Side Unity C.O.G.I.C.

11:45AM

5357 Mt. Elliott

(313) 579-2353

Supt. Robert Butts Jr.

Encouragement Corner Ministries

9AM & 10:30AM

10330 Whittier

(313) 417-9430

Elder Howard L. Parker, Jr.

Evangel Church of God in Christ

11:45AM

13318 Kercheval

(313) 824-4887

Supt. James Smith, Jr.

Faith Clinic C.O.G.I.C.

11:15AM

12260 Camden

(313) 372-3429

Bishop Edward W. Lucas, D.D.

Faith Tabernacle C.O.G.I.C.

10:45AM & 6PM

23800 Lahser

(248) 357-3110

Elder Edward W. Lucas, D.D.

Fellowship C.O.G.I.C. (Ecorse)

11AM

3828 12th St.

(313) 381-6644

Rev. William Elum

Shrine of the Black Madonna/ Pan African Orthodox Christian Church

11:15AM

7625 Linwood

(313) 875-9700

Cardinal Mbiyu Chui

Fenkell Gospel Temple C.O.G.I.C.

11AM

2600 Fenkell

(313) 862-4771

Elder Lavell Whitaker

Spirit Filled Ministries

11AM

15100 Plymouth

(313) 272-3104

Pastor Thomasyne Petty Faulkner

First Tabernacle of Detroit

8:30AM & 11AM

4801 Oakman Blvd.

(313) 935-PRAY

St. Michael Church Guardian Angel

10AM & 11:30AM

12320 Woodrow Wilson

(313) 868-7166

Bishop James Williams

Healing Springs C.O.G.I.C.

11AM

10331 Dexter Ave.

(313) 813-8952

Rev. Joey Henderson

Temple of St. Jude Spiritual

8AM & 11AM

8747 Fenkell

(313) 834-1650

Rev. Larry H. Williams

Glad Tidings C.O.G.I.C.

11:15 AM

625 E. Seven Mile Rd.

(313) 366-4378

Elder Robert D. Taylor, Sr.

10AM & 11AM

16573 Meyers Rd.

(313) 862-7073

Pastor Krafus Walker

Northwest Activities Center (313) 270-2325 Ballroom

Rev. Shaheerah Stephens

Glory and Praise Tabernacle C.O.G.I.C

Transforming Love Community 10AM

Glory to Glory Temple C.O.G.I.C.

11AM

19309 Greenfield Rd.

(313) 477-0479

Pastor Tommy C. Vanover

True Light Worship Center

11AM

8714 W. McNichols

(313) 864-1046

Rev. William H. Sanders

Greater Bethesda (Ecorse) C.O.G.I.C.

11:30AM

4670 9th Street

(313) 381-3810

Elder Sam Knolton, Sr.

Unique Non-Complaining Church (Redford)

8AM & 12 Noon

26547 Grand River Ave.

(313) 794-5440

Pastor Charles E. Brooks Jr.

Greater Dequindre C.O.G.I.C.

11:45AM

1847 Sycamore

(313) 961-4842

Rev. Robert Bullard, Jr.

Universal Hagar’s Spiritual Temple #7

11AM & Fri. 6PM

13327 W. Seven Mile Rd.

(313) 862-0363

Rev. Mother Cynthia Nelson

Greater Emmanuel Institutional C.O.G.I.C.

8:30AM & 11AM

19190 Schafer

(313) 864-7170

Bishop J. Drew Sheard

Universal Liberty In Christ Temple, Inc

11AM

7000 E. Canfield

(313) 923-5360

Rev. Ralph J. Boyd

Greater Haven of Rest C.O.G.I.C.

10:30AM

16130 Woodbine

(313) Jesus-29

Supt. R. K. Benson

Universal Life of Hope

12PM

15065 Grand River

(313) 836-2100

Rev. Dr. R. Hill

Greater Love Tabernacle C.O.G.I.C.

11AM

17617 Plymouth Rd.

(313) 835-8016

Universal Triumph the Dominion of God, Inc.

10:30AM

1651 Ferry Park

Greater Miller Memorial C.O.G.I.C. (Warren)

11AM & 6:30PM

4439 E. Nine Mile Rd.

(586) 757-6767

Bishop Earl J. Wright

(313) 873-6591 Rev. Lord & Princess James Maggie Shaffer

Greater Mitchell Temple C.O.G.I.C.

11AM

13737 Curtis

(313) 345-9900

Bishop John H. Sheard

Waterfall Bible Institute

6PM - 10PM

12040 Visger Rd.

(313) 382-0900

Rev. Dr. Emanuel Cain

Greater Mt. Everett (Ferndale)

11AM & 7PM

631 E. 8 Mile Rd.

(248) 541-7200

Elder Jesse G. Bell

Greater Northwest C.O.G.I.C.

11AM

15811 Rosa Parks Blvd.

(313) 345-4676

Pastor Supt. Cleotis Wells

Greater Rock of Ages C.O.G.I.C.

12 NOON

9804 Conner Ave.

(313) 526-0482

Supt. Fred L. Mitchell Sr.

Hammond C.O.G.I.C.

11AM

8740 Puritan

(313) 861-9095

Victor G. Thompson, Pastor

St. Raphael of Brooklyn Orthordox

10AM

(313) 533-3437

V. Rev. Fr. Leo Copacia

Hill Memorial C.O.G.I.C.

11:30AM

5501 Chase Rd.

(313) 846-4674

Bishop Michael Hill

Jones Memorial C.O.G.I.C.

11 AM

19200 Evergreen Rd.

(313) 534-2860

Elder Leon R. McPherson Sr.

(Kendall) The New Gospel Temple C.O.G.I.C.

11AM

16601 Tireman St.

(313) 581-4377

Pastor Gerald A. Echols Jr.

New Christ Temple C.O.G.I.C.

11AM

10001 Hayes

(313) 521-5426

Rev. Lorris Upshaw, Sr.

New Jerusalem C.O.G.I.C.

11AM

7361 Linwood Ave.

(313) 894-8816

Elder Darryl Clark

New Maclin Temple C.O.G.I.C.

10AM & 12 NOON

2255 E. Forest

(313) 831-7372

Elder James M. Maclin

New St. Paul Tabernacle C.O.G.I.C.

8AM & 10AM

15340 Southfield Dr.

(313) 835-5329

Bishop P.A. Brooks

Redemptive Love Christian Center

10AM

12190 Conant Ave.

(313) 893-6275

Elder Kenneth J. Jenkins

Rewarding Faith C.O.G.I.C.

8AM & 11AM

12935 Buena Vista Ave.

(313) 933-3000

Supt. Joseph W. Harris

Saints Liberty Life Steps Ministries (Pontiac)

11AM

340 East Pike St.

(248) 736-3207

Elder Andrew L. Jenkins Sr.

Seth Temple C.O.G.I.C.

11:30AM

9841 Dundee

(313) 931-1315

Elder Philip R. Jackson

Shiloh Chapel C.O.G.I.C.

9AM & 11:30AM

14841 Eastburn Ave.

(313) 527-5400

Bishop Alfred M. Smith

The Open Door C.O.G.I.C.

11:30AM

14900 E. 7 Mile Rd.

(313) 526-3460

Elder Alan R. Evans

The Way of True Holiness C.O.G.I.C.

10:30AM

1901 Electric Ave.

(313) 383-3373

Elder Curtis Charles McDonald

The Word of Truth C.O.G.I.C. (Warren)

9AM &10:30 AM

7107 Rivard Ave.

(586) 754-9673

Dr. Robert E. Garner, Pastor

Unity Fellowship C.O.G.I.C.

11AM & 6PM

17050 Joy Rd.

(313) 270-2000

Elder George W. Hutchinson, Sr.

Walk In The Spirit C.O.G.I.C.

11:30AM

11648 Whittier Ave.

(313) 371-4007

Elder Leon K. Shipman Sr.

11AM

7630 Southfield Rd.

(313) 633-0852

Pastor John O. Wright, Jr.

CONGREGATIONAL Bushnell Congregational Church

10:30 AM

15000 Southfield Rd.

(313) 272-3550

Rev. Roy Isaac

First Congregational Church of Detroit

11AM

33 E. Forest

(313) 831-4080

Rev. Dr. Lottie Jones Hood

10AM

Cathedral Church of St. Paul Christ Church - Detroit

3837 W. Seven Mile

PENTECOSTAL Church of God of Baldwin

11:30AM

5540 Talbot

(313) 366-3190

Elder Gerald Williams

El-Beth-El Temple

11AM

15801 Schaefer

(313) 835-3326

Elder Henry G. Sims Sr.

God’s Way Cathedral (formely C.O.G.I.C.)

11:30AM

14820 Puritan St.

(313) 580-9103

Bishop Herbert A. Ross D.D.

God’s Vineyard C.O.G.I.C. (Centerline)

11:30AM

8090 Theisen

(586) 755-8910

Bishop Carey Jackson Jr.

Great Faith Ministries Int’l

11AM

10735 Grand River

(313) 491-1330

Bishop Wayne & Pastor Beverly Jackson

Greater Faith Assembly

11:30AM

1330 Crane St.

(313) 821-5761

Bishop Raphael Williams Sr.

Mt. Zion Church of Deliverance

11:30AM

2263 S. Fort St.

(313) 388-9867

Rev. Jewett B. Jackson

New Jerusalem C.O.G.I.C.

11AM

7361 Linwood

(313) 894-8816

Elder Darryl Clark

New Resurrection Faith Ministries Inc.

11AM

18614 Schoolcraft

(313) 836-8099

Bishop Merdith R. Bussell

Thomas Temple C.O.G.I.C.

11am & 5:30PM

14500 Grand River

(313) 835-3570

Bishop Frank Richard

True Testimonial of Jesus (Roseville)

11:30 AM

19200 Frazho

(810) 443-4999

Rev. Willie Moorer Jr.

Universal Church of the Living God

10AM & 11:15AM

3401 Grandy Ave.

(313) 259-0707

Bishop Earl Field, Sr.

World Deliverance Temple

8AM & 11AM

27355 Ann Arbor Trail

(313) 730-8900

Bishop Roy Ferguson

Calvary Presbyterian

10:30AM

19125 Greenview

(313) 537-2590

Christ Presbyterian

11AM

23795 Civic Center Dr.

(248) 356-2635

Rev. Kevin R. Johnson

First Presbyterian Church of Birmingham

8:30AM & 10AM

1669 W. Maple

(248) 644-2040

Hope Presbyterian

11AM

15340 Meyers Rd.

(313) 861-2865

Rev. Raphael B. Francis

St. John’s Presbyterian, U.S.A.

11AM

1961 E. Lafayette Blvd.

(313) 567-0213

Rev. Johnie Bennett

Trinity Community Presbyterian U.S.A.

8:30AM & 11AM

4849 W. Outer Drive

(313) 342-2288

Rev. Edwin Fabré

Westminster Church for All People

8:30AM & 11AM

17567 Hubbell Ave.

(313) 341-2697

Rev. Mary Austin

(CUMBERLAND) PRESBYTERIAN

Episcopal All Saints Episcopal

23300 W. Davison St.

PRESBYTERIAN

CHURCH OF THE NAZARENE New Hope Church of the Nazarene

ORTHODOX-CHRISTIAN

(313) 341-5320

Rev. C. Alfred Loua

7:30AM, 8:15AM & 10:30AM 4800 Woodward Ave

(313) 831-5000

Rev. Dr. S. Scott Hunter

8:15AM & 10:30AM

960 E. Jefferson

(313) 259-6688

Rev. John Talk

Grace Episcopal

8:30 & 11AM

1926 Virginia Park

(313) 895-6442

Supply Clergy

St. Christopher St. Paul’s Episcopal Church

11AM

20750 W. McNichols

(313) 538-2320

Rev. Deborah Semon Scott

St. Clement’s Episcopal (Inkster)

8AM & 10:30AM

4300 Harrison St.

(734) 728-0790

Rev. Ellis Clifton. Jr., Rector

St. Cyprian’s Episcopal

10:30AM

6114 28th St.

(313) 896-7515

Rev. Dr. Donald M. Lutas

St. Matthew’s & St. Joseph’s Episcopal

8AM & 11AM

8850 Woodward Ave.

(313) 871-4750

Rev. Shannon Brown -MacVean

St. Phillip & St. Stephen Episcopal

10AM

14225 Frankfort

(313) 822-7730

St. Timothy’s Episcopal

10:45AM

15820 Wyoming

(313) 341-1244

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St. Paul Cumberland Presbyterian

11AM

St. Peter’s Primitive

11:30AM

Church of the Living God /#37

11:30AM

3841 Humphrey

(313) 834-2463

PRIMITIVE BAPTIST 17251 Jos Campau

(313) 893-9094

Rev. Walter L. Harris

(313) 831-2770

Elder Leroy Williams

PROTESTANT 3556 Dubois

REFORMED CHURCH IN AMERICA Nardin Park Community

11AM

5027 W. Boston

(313) 834-4770

Rev. Robert Morris

SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST FREE METHODIST New Beginnings Free Methodist (Ann Arbor)

8:30AM

2780 Packard Rd.

(734) 971-8317 Rev. Jeffery D. Harrold

Burns Church of Seventh-Day Adventist

Sat. 11:00AM

10125 East Warren Ave

(313) 924-5535

Rev. Cory Jackson, Sr., Pastor

City Temple Seventh-Day Adventist

9:15AM & 11AM

8816 Grand River

(313) 897-0506

Leon J. Bryant, Pastor

Detroit Northwest Seventh-day Adventist Church

Sat. 9:45 & 11:15 AM

14301 Burt Rd

(313) 538-8190

Cory Jackson, Pastor

Ecorse Church of Seventh-Day Adventists

Sat. 9:15AM &10:45AM

3834 10th St.

(313) 928-9212

William Hughes, Pastor

Sharon Seventh-Day (Inkster)

Sat. 9:15AM & 11AM

28537 Cherry Street

(313) 722-2313

Philip Jones, Pastor

FULL GOSPEL BAPTIST Abundant Life Full Gospel Worship Center

11:30AM

5619 Charles

(313) 366-0874

Pastors Roger & Mary Lewis

Crossroads Victory Full Gospel Cathedral

10:30AM & 11:30AM

9355 Greenfield

(313) 836-7260

Rev. Dr. Eileen V. Martin, Ph.D., Ed.D.

Heavenly Dimensions F.G.B.C.

10AM & 11AM

11731 Mt. Elliot

(313) 368-2925

Pastor Robert D. Lodge Jr.

Resurrection Ministries

11AM

4959 Martin

(313) 896-1708

Rev. William Goodman

UNITARIAN-UNIVERSALIST First Unitarian Universalist Church

11AM

4605 Cass Ave.

(313) 833-9107

Rev. Roger Mohr

Northwest Unitarian Universalist Church

10AM

23925 Northwestern Hwy.

(248) 354-4488

Rev. Kimi Riegel

INTER-DENOMINATIONAL Community Christian Fellowship

11AM

8131 E. Outer Drive

(313) 245-2925

Bishop Samuel A Wilson, Sr.

First Church of the Redeemed

11:15AM

9360 Van Dyke

(313) 923-6455

Min. Katherine M. Fitzgerald

For Such A Time As This Ministry

11AM

10630 Grand River

(313) 935-9992

Pastor Joyce Driver

Grace Community Church of Detroit

8AM & 11AM

20021 W. Chicago Rd.

(313) 273-0410

William A Harris, Minister

People’s Community

7:30AM & 10:30AM

8601 Woodward Ave.

(313) 871-4676

Rev. Martin E. Bolton

ISLAMIC FAITH Masjid Wali Muhammed (Jum’ah 1PM)

Ta’aleem Sunday 1PM

11529 Linwood

(313) 868-2131

Imam Salim MuMin

Moorish Science Temple of America, Temple #25

2-4 Sun./7:30PM-10PM FRI.

5601 Grand River

(313) 894-8340

Minister Bro Craig P. Fuqua-Bey

Muhammad Mosque No. One

11AM Sun./ 8PM W&F

14880 Wyoming

(313) 931-4873

Minister Rasul Muhammad

(The) Muslim Center (Jum’ah Prayer 1PM)

Ta’aleem 12NOON

1605 W. Davison Ave.

(313) 883-3330

Derrick Ali, Imam

LUTHERAN Cross of Glory Lutheran (ELCA)

9:30AM

16661 E. State Fair

(313) 839-5787

Pr. Michael Rothgery

Genesis Lutheran

10AM

7200 Mack

(313) 571-7371

no pastor at present time

Good Shepherd Lutheran (ELCA)

10:30AM

16100 Lawton St.

(313) 341-3978

no pastor at present time

Gracious Saviour Lutheran (ELCA)

11AM

19484 James Couzens Hwy.

(313) 342-4950

no pastor at present time

Immanuel Lutheran (ELCA)

8AM & 11AM

13031 Chandler Park Dr.

(313) 821-2380

Pr. Patrick P. Gahagen

Iroquois Ave Christ Lutheran (ELCA)

10AM

2411 Iroquois

(313) 921-2667

Pr. Maxcy Christmas

Outer Drive Faith Lutheran Church

8:30AM & 11AM

17500 James Couzens Fwy

(313) 341-4095

Rev. Eddie Morales

Revelation Lutheran (ELCA)

10AM

6661 Oakman Blvd.

(313) 846-9910

Pr. Doris Harris Mars

Salem Memorial Lutheran (ELCA)

10:45AM

21230 Moross

(313) 881-9201

Pr. Michael Johnson

St. Andrew-Redeemer Lutheran (ELCA)

10AM

2261 Marquette St.

(313) 262-6143

Frank Jackson

St. James Lutheran (ELCA)

10:30AM

14450 Ashton Road

(313) 838-3600

Pr. Michael Konow

Spirit of Hope Lutheran (ELCA)

11AM

1519 Martin Luther King Blvd. (313) 964-3113

Pr. Matthew Bode

NEW THOUGHT - HOLY SPIRIT Divine Awareness Spiritual Temple of Truth

Sun. 4PM/Thur. 9PM

4088 Pasadena

(313) 491-1062

Rev. Jewell Stringer

Faith Universal Study Group

11:30AM

8033 Kercheval

(313) 393-5212

Rev. Gloria J. Fitchpritch

St. Catherine Temple of Prophecy

11AM

12833 Linwood Ave.

(313) 868-5612

Rev. Vallerie Gray

The Order of the Fishermen Ministry

10:30AM

10025 Grand River Ave.

(313) 933-0770

Fisherman Earl “DOC” Savage

Vulcan Christian Ministries (Warren)

11AM

7447 Convention Blvd.

(810) 771-3257

Dr. Marjorie A. Lyda

UNITED CHURCH OF CHRIST Mayflower Congregational Church

11AM

7301 Curtis

(313) 861-6450

Rev. J. Michael Curenton

St. John’s – St. Luke

10:30AM

2120 Russell

(313) 393-8168

Rev. J. Womack – Rev. L. Hawkins

Calvary United Methodist

11AM

15050 Hubbell

(313) 835-1317

Rev. Dr. Theodore L. Whitely, Sr.

Cass Community United Methodist

11AM

3901 Cass Ave.

(313) 833-7730

Rev. Faith Fowler

Central United Methodist

10AM

23 E. Adams

(313) 965-5422

Rev. Edwin A. Rowe

Conant Avenue United Methodist

11AM

18600 Conant Ave.

(313) 891-7237

Rev. Dr. Darryl E. Totty

Faith United Methodist (Oak Park)

9:30AM & 10AM

23880 Scotia

(248) 542-8861

Rev. Jonathan Combs

Henderson Memorial United Methodist

9:30AM

7520 Puritan

(313) 342-4020

Rev. Thomas Taylor

Hope United Methodist (Southfield)

7:30AM & 10:30AM

26275 Northwestern Hwy.

(248) 356-1020

Dr. Carlyle Fielding Stewart IIIs

Metropolitan United Methodist Church

11AM

8000 Woodward

(313) 875-7407

Rev. Dr. Ray McGee

Mt. Hope United Methodist

11AM

15400 E. Seven Mile Rd.

(313) 371-8540

Rev. Henry Williams

People’s United Methodist

11AM

19370 Greenfield

(313) 342-7868

Rev. Carter A. Grimmett

Redford Aldergate United Methodist Church

9AM & 11:15AM

22400 Grand River

(313) 531-2210

Rev. Jeffrey S. Nelson

Second Grace United Methodist

8AM & 11AM

18700 Joy Rd.

(313) 838-6475

Rev. Dr. Charles S. G. Boayue

Scott Memorial United Methodist

11AM

15361 Plymouth

(313) 836-6301

Rev. Anthony Hood

St. James United Methodist (Westland)

10:30AM

30055 Annapolis Rd.

(313) 729-1737

Rev. Willie F. Smith

St. Paul United Methodist

11AM

8701 W. Eight Mile Rd.

(313) 342-4656

Rev. Henry Williams

St. Timothy United Methodist

8:30 AM & 11AM

15888 Archdale

(313) 837-4070

Dr. Lester Mangum

Trinity Faith United Methodist

11AM

19750 W. McNichols

(313) 533-0101

Rev. Jan J. Brown

John Wesley United Methodist (River Rouge)

11AM

555 Beechwood Street

(313) 928-0043

Rev. Rahim Shabazz

Unity of Farmington Hills

10AM

32500 W. Thirteen Mile Rd.

(248) 737-9191

Rev. Barbara Clevenger

Detroit Unity Temple

10AM

17505 Second Blvd.

(313) 345-4848

Pastor Gregory Guice

God Land Unity

11AM

22450 Schoolcraft

(313) 794-2800

Rev. Ron D. Coleman, Sr.

Unity of Redford (Livonia)

5-6 PM

28660 Five Mile Rd.

(313) 272-7193

Rev. Josephine Furlow

West Side Unity

9:30AM & 11AM

4727 Joy Rd.

(313) 895-1520

Rev. Charles G. Williams

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11:30AM

8033 Kercheval

(313) 921-2950

Rev. Gloria J. Fitchpritch

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Highlights will include: Chef Shannon Wilson -- Low-calorie, healthy foods Chef Nezaa Bandele -- Vegan specialties Chef Clifton Ely -- Soul food including his popular mac-n-cheese Metro Foodland is one of the oldest grocers in the Detroit area and Offers several gourmet, vegan, healthy offerings on its shelves. Tasty, healthy, trendy and soulful cuisine tastings are a way for its customers to discover new ways to enjoy regular foods with a new twist. Metro Foodland even offers Hallal foods for those who eat Kosher.

Metro Foodland is owned and operated by James Hooks who opened the store in 1984.

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She married the late James Alston in 1936 and the couple moved to Detroit.

In her later years, she went back to school and became a certified EKG technician. She was employed for many years at various medical facilities, and retired in 1991 after Southwest Hospital closed. In 2002, she married Louis Fleming.

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