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1 month ago | apnews.com | Corey Williams

DETROIT (AP) — Who killed Donald Goines? Producers of a documentary on the life of the prisoner-turned urban fiction writer of novels about the violence, drugs and prostitution that he surrounded himself with in Detroit are hoping the answer hasn’t been lost to time — or the streets. It’s been more than 50 years since Goines and his common-law wife, Shirley Sailor, were found shot to death on Oct. 21, 1974 in their flat in Highland Park, a small enclave of Detroit. Each had been shot five times.

1 month ago | apnews.com | Corey Williams

Cuatro personas han sido acusadas en la muerte de un niño de cinco años que fue “incinerado” dentro de una cámara de oxígeno presurizada que explotó en una instalación médica en los suburbios de Detroit, dijo el fiscal general de Michigan el martes. Thomas Cooper, de Royal Oak, Michigan, fue declarado muerto en el lugar el 31 de enero en el Oxford Center en Troy. Su madre estaba de pie junto a la cámara y resultó herida al intentar salvar a su hijo.

1 month ago | apnews.com | Corey Williams

EAST LANSING, Michigan. EE.UU. (AP) — Un fallo de la Corte Suprema de Estados Unidos de 1842 que revocó la condena por secuestro de un hombre blanco que plagió a una familia negra y los obligó a convertirse en esclavos al sur de la línea Mason-Dixon sigue citándose en la jurisprudencia estadounidense, 160 años después de que las personas esclavizadas en todo Estados Unidos fueran liberadas. El caso Prigg vs.

1 month ago | independent.co.uk | Corey Williams

Students at Michigan State University's law school have found that slavery is still baked into American jurisprudenceCorey Williams An 1842 U.S. Supreme Court ruling overturning the kidnapping conviction of a white man who seized a Black family and forced them into slavery south of the Mason-Dixon line is still being cited in American jurisprudence, 160 years after enslaved people throughout the U.S. were freed. Prigg v.

1 month ago | stltoday.com | Mike Householder |Corey Williams |Corey Williams

DETROIT — Smoky air from Canada's wildfires shrouded broad swaths of the U.S. from Minnesota to New York and Kentucky on Wednesday, prompting warnings to stay inside and exacerbating health risks for people already suffering from industrial pollution. The impacts are particularly hard on poor and minority communities that are more likely to live near polluting plants and have higher rates of asthma.