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Excerpts from the Detroit Future City 2024 Equity Forum

Season 52 Episode 46

We’ll bring you a portion of the 2024 Detroit Future City Equity Forum, which focused on making sure African Americans and other minorities in Detroit get equitable access to quality jobs and careers in Michigan. Host Stephen Henderson moderates an important conversation with four workforce changemakers about how they are helping to advance economic equity for Detroiters now and into the future.

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A pivotal moment in the history of baseball and the Detroit Women in Jazz Oral History Project.
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The mental health struggles of young African Americans and the challenges and rewards of caregiving.
Museum of Detroit Electronic Music, pioneering women DJs, techno legend Carl Craig
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Fighting food insecurity, a special caregiving report about planning for the future
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How United Way for Southeastern Michigan is helping feed families and more on caregiving.
A look at this year’s Small Business Workshop and “Caregiving Conversations”
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A Detroit workshop helps small businesses, and we’ll hear the personal stories of caregivers.
Examining affordable housing shortage and a story from “Faith in Detroit”
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How churches are tackling the affordable housing shortage and our first "Faith in Detroit" story.
Bookstock returns, a conversation with Detroit Jazz Festival Artist-in-Residence Joe Lovano
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A preview of Bookstock and sitting down with this year’s Detroit Jazz Festival Artist-in-Residence.
National Black Maternal Health Week, "Detroit PBS & The Caring Community"
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Eliminating health disparities that put Black mothers at risk and a look at a caregiving event.
Sitting down with Life Remodeled president, a look at Detroit Policy Conference panel on education
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Nonprofit works to improve Detroit neighborhoods and a talk on the state of education in Michigan.
Black Church in Detroit series examines women in ministry
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A look at an initiative that supports women preachers and church leaders.
Tyree Guyton of The Heidelberg Project, Detroit’s Black and Jewish Communities
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This year’s Kresge Eminent Artist, the relationship between Black and Jewish communities in Detroit.
“The Lion King” returns to Detroit Opera House, the late Rev. Jesse Jackson’s legacy
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“The Lion King” is back and a look at civil rights leader Jesse Jackson’s appearance on ABJ in 2015.
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