Andre J. Jackson/ Detroit Free Press About 50 high school students at Frederick Douglass Academy in Detroit were suspended today after walking out of classes to protest a lack of consistent teachers, the removal of the principal and a host of other administrative problems at the all... Read more...
A lawyer involved in a long-running dispute over the estate of civil rights pioneer Rosa Parks claims that a judge allowed two other lawyers to pile up fees that ate away about two-thirds of the estate's $372,000 cash value. The financial condition of Parks' estate was outlined in a recent filing w... Read more...
A protest of the closing of the Catherine Ferguson Academy, a Detroit school for pregnant teens, became a victory celebration. Actor Danny Glover speaks as Dalisha Thomas, 17, with daughter Kendall, listens. / REGINA H. BOONE/Detroit Free Press BY CHASTITY PRATT DAWSEY Tiffani Baldwin st... Read more...