May 21, 2013

Detroit Tire Shop Pays Employees with Crack?! (Video)

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*Here we go again with another scandalous story out of Detroit. We have no idea why they have so many stories making national news…well, ok, maybe this one. Mr. C’s  Tire Shop on Mack Avenue on the eastside of Detroit has given up the reasoning behind the “C” in their name. We thought there was [...]




Detroit Welcomes the Official R&B Music Hall of Fame Museum

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*Detroit, Michigan – The founder of the R&B Music Hall of Fame Museum, entrepreneur and comedy basketball Clown Prince of the Harlem Clowns, LaMont “ShowBoat” Robinson from Cleveland, Ohio and his staff of advisors had narrowed the selection down to two cities (Cleveland and Detroit) to develop the Official R&B Music Hall of Fame Museum [...]




Detroit’s Emergency Manager Declares the City ‘Broke!’

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*Detroit is in more trouble and of course, it’s fiscal trouble! No one is surprised…especially the city’s new emergency manager. The future is not looking good for the city of Detroit according to the city’s new emergency manager bankruptcy lawyer Kevyn Orr, who was brought in by the governor in March.  He had 45 days to [...]




Detroit Resident Melinda Brown Duncan Tells Why She Should Run the City (Video)

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The residents of the city of Detroit has been under fire from every direction of the city’s government. From the governor’s office to the mayor’s office and city council, the residents have been catching hell! But Melinda Brown Duncan is not planning on keeping that a secret! She’s mad as hell and told the local [...]




Detroit Is the Wild Wild midWest as Woman Fights For Life While EMS Looks On! (Video)

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*The voyeurism in the U.S. has hit a new moral low with the level of crimes being committed on video. Too many people are focusing on  becoming amateur cameramen and bullies rather than being helpful. A Detroit woman by the name of Mercedes was caught, literally, ass out, on camera during a brawl at a [...]




Detroit Man Shot by Passenger in Car, Crashes, and Witnesses Rob Him? (Video)

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*Just when I thought there couldn’t possibly be anymore news out of Detroit that could be shocking, here comes a story where a man crashes his car after being shot by his passenger. Believe it or not, that isn’t the shocking part. The man was driving on the Eastside of Detroit on Gratiot Ave. when [...]




Detroit Father Puts Together Sting to Catch Child Predator from Daughter’s Facebook Page (Video)

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*The community seems to be fighting back and defeating child sex predator’s lately. Tuesday, we told you about a girl who set up her own sting to catch a predator that had planned to have sex with her, now we’re on to a fearless father who has done the same. Antoine Martin found inappropriate messages [...]




Rev. Jesse Jackson Joins Detroit Preachers Against State Takeover

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*Detroit’s new emergency manager, Kevyn Orr, hasn’t been the most popular figure of the city since his appointment to take over the finances. The Rev. Jesse Jackson decided to join the fight in kicking him out because he says the appointment by the state is unconstitutional because it totally dismisses local control. The state appointed Orr [...]




Detroit Native Still Charged for Child Support 25 Years AFTER His Son’s Death

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*We’ve heard of confusion in the hospital and people getting the wrong baby. We’ve heard of records confused so bad that a father and a son live as the other because their names are the same. But we are boggled by the latest confusion at the Friend of the Court. Lional Campbell has been paying [...]




Detroit Declares State of Emergency!

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*The city of Detroit has been underwater on their bills for a long time and Kwame Kilpatrick can take a lot of the blame for that. But now, the city is drowning and a life preserver they may not like is set to be thrown to residents. In a press conference Tuesday, Michigan State Treasurer [...]




Berry Gordy’s Chrysler Ad Plugs Motown Musical (Watch)

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*In a Chrysler ad that will soon hit the airwaves (and is posted now on YouTube), Berry Gordy – the founder of the Motown record label and the book writer of its upcoming Broadway musical – takes a drive through Detroit in the automaker’s new Motown 300 model, pre-loaded with classic Motown tunes. Gordy’s destination [...]




Detroiters Are Falling Victim to More and More Squatters

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*The recession along with predatory lending has forced a lot of people out of their homes. But, it’s such an epidemic across the country that the ex-homeowners become squatters in their own homes just to have someone where to live. But, others have joined in on the squatting that have absolutely no affiliation with the [...]




Detroit Postal Worker Retires After 44 Years …With NO SICK DAYS! (Video)

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*It’s cold outside isn’t it? I mean, it’s brutally cold in some places in the northern region of the U.S. And it’s a no-brainer that a lot of you will be calling in slick…I mean, sick! But not Deborah Ford! Not just because she is retiring from the U.S. Postal Service, but because she doesn’t [...]




Detroit’s City Hall Reporter (Leonard Fleming) Under Fire for Affair with State Treasurer’s Ex-Wife

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*Are Detroit’s male officials hard up for women or what? What’s going on in Motown when the officials keep getting caught up in scandals related to sexual misconduct? The latest fiasco is, thankfully, not a political representative, but it is “veteran city hall reporter” Leonard Fleming for the Detroit News. He was reportedly having an [...]




What The … ?! Bishop Lays On Top of Two Men for Consecration Ritual (Watch)

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*Every religion has its rituals, some worse than others. We’ve even seen snakes brought into the pulpit to bite members of the congregation to show their faith in God. But now there’s a laying on of bodies going on that is causing some eyebrow raising. Bishop Wayne T. Jackson is a popular minister in Detroit, [...]