Decades after a student occupation helped create Wayne State’s African American Studies department, alumni are fighting to preserve the vision they say the university promised.

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Detroit will unveil a street sign Saturday honoring Viola Liuzzo, the white Detroit mother of five who was killed by Ku Klux Klan members in Alabama after responding to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s call to support the Selma voting rights movement in 1965.

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Corewell Health is accused of failing to address a nurse practitioner who publicly described herself as a “proud Islamophobe” and shared social media posts calling for discrimination against Muslims, according to a complaint with the state.

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