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DPS Interim Superintendent / “Writing my Wrongs”

Season 44 Episode 24

We meet Alycia Meriweather, the new Interim Superintendent of Detroit Public Schools. Plus, best-selling author Shaka Senghor stops by to discuss his new book, “Writing my Wrongs.” And Ken Coleman shares a new edition of On This Day Detroit. Episode 4424.

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Explore the role Detroit’s religious community played in the 1963 Detroit Walk to Freedom.
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