A longstanding community called Mexicantown on Detroit’s southwest side has persevered for around a century. The area of restaurants,...

Thousands of phonograph records were destroyed, as were thousands of needles used on the old-style record players. Teenage sleuths...

Sometime in the mid-1940s, an Italian immigrant bar owner by the name of Gus Guerra started making pizzas in...

It was horrific, even by the low standards of the urban drug trade. Three dead bodies found in a...

The beginnings of Detroit are inaccurately pinned to the arrival of Cadillac on these shores in 1701, but there...

Smack in the middle of the Civil War, Detroit experienced a riot that was characterized as “the most brutal...

On a cold winter day in 1932, in the depths of the Great Depression, some 3,000 or more people...

Joe Louis may have been the most famous person to come out of Detroit. He arrived here in the...

Jeff Montgomery was a born activist who played an important role in saving Orchestra Hall. When a hate crime...

Between 1955 and 1974, a nuclear war with the Soviet Union seemed like a possibility. We armed ourselves by...

Hank Greenberg, who entered the Hall of Fame as one of the greatest hitters in the game’s history, was...

GM spied on a gadfly and got caught. It was the ’60s, and it changed the auto industry forever....

Barely two months after the attack on Pearl Harbor, President Franklin Roosevelt issued Executive Order #9066. Some 120,000 Japanese...

James Vernor invented his ginger ale in downtown Detroit just after the Civil War. More than 15 decades later,...

For decades, segregation forced African-Americans migrating from the South to Detroit into one neighborhood: “Black “Bottom,” an area just...