But when he comes knocking this year, it will be because he's running for mayor, the current Detroit city councilman ... Past congressional leaders Barbara Rose-Collins and John Conyers influenced ...

Created after overwhelming approval in Congress and being signed into a law by President Ronald Reagan in 1983, MLK Day was first observed ... U.S. Rep. John Conyers, D-Detroit, introduced a ...

"This bill is not a symbolic gesture, but rather a meaningful step for repairing the deep structural injustices," U.S. Rep.

But when he comes knocking this year, it will be because he's running for mayor, the current Detroit ... leaders Barbara Rose-Collins and John Conyers influenced Durhal to enter public service.

Lynn Eusan became UH’s first Black homecoming queen in 1968. Known widely for her civil rights activism at UH and beyond, she ...

Ted Talbert's storytelling legacy in Detroit lives on, and the same is true for the many Detroiters that helped the dedicated ...

John Conyers, D-Mich., had initially proposed MLK Day in a bill four days after King's assassination on April 4, 1968 at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis. It took Conyers 11 years from his first ...

“That’s why Ted told the story of the Tuskegee Airmen (America’s first Black military ... Press Publisher Neal Shine, Mayor Dennis Archer, Congressman John Conyers, Judge Marylin Atkins ...