Rukiya Colvin

1 month ago | outliermedia.org | Rukiya Colvin

This story was created in partnership with the Rocket Community Fund to highlight a citywide foreclosure tax reimbursement initiative for residents of Detroit. Was there a tax foreclosure on your home prior to 2020, and after 2015? There’s a chance you may receive a call from an Outlier Media volunteer, and your response could lead to thousands of dollars from the Wayne County Treasurer’s Office.

Dec 20, 2023 | prismreports.org | Rukiya Colvin

Securus, a major communications company that services prison facilities, persists in struggling with tech issues, greatly affecting incarcerated writers and their peers.

Dec 18, 2023 | detroit.eater.com | Rukiya Colvin

On a fall day in October, an emerging trend made official landfall in Detroit. Located at 16555 Harper, west of Whittier at the border of the East English Village neighborhood, BeShroomed Farms offers coffee drinkers an alternative in the form of mushroom coffee. Though it’s the first of its kind in the area, mushroom coffee is a growing market and the product has gained popularity in recent years across the country for the fungi’s purported restorative qualities.

Aug 17, 2023 | planetdetroit.org | Jeremy Orr |Michelle Martinez |Jacob Whiton |Rukiya Colvin

Last week, the City of Detroit announced that the Detroit Water and Sewerage Department would resume water shutoffs –a controversial and punitive method of debt collection for households unable to afford their water bills. The decision to resume shutoffs comes after the expiration of a moratorium first required by the State of Michigan in 2020 during the COVID pandemic and voluntarily extended by the City.

Aug 3, 2023 | planetdetroit.org | Michelle Martinez |Jacob Whiton |Rukiya Colvin |Boratha Tan

It’s been well documented that access to nature for Black, Latino, and other people of the Global majority in the United States is limited. Authors like Carolyn Finney and Dorceta Taylor have described histories of structured economic and racial exclusion to clean air, safe spaces, and nature. Most prominently, Black birder Christian Cooper was reported to police by a white onlooker to the police for simply possessing binoculars. (He’s now got his own TV show).