Staff / TruthdigJul 11, 2014
This week on Truthdig Radio in association with KPFK: Dennis Kucinich holds politicians accountable. Also: the fight to get refugee children legal representation, why legal weed is good for America, and Detroit anthologized. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
Alexander Reed Kelly / TruthdigJun 28, 2014
A coalition of human rights activists has asked the United Nations to intervene in the withholding of water access from 150,000 residents of Detroit who are at least two months behind on utility payments. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )
Emily Wilson / TruthdigJun 27, 2014
At 99 years old, activist and author Grace Lee Boggs reflects on the last century of American history in a Truthdig interview as PBS prepares to air a new documentary about her storied life. "To understand revolution is twofold," she says. "It’s not just changing institutions, it’s changing ourselves."To understand revolution is twofold—it’s not just changing institutions, it’s changing ourselves." Dig deeper ( 6 Min. Read )
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Staff / TruthdigJun 6, 2014
General Motors Chief Executive Mary Barra said Thursday that the company had fired 15 mostly senior executives over the deadly ignition scandal that has placed the automaker under federal investigation. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
Alexander Reed Kelly / TruthdigDec 26, 2013
Directors of the nonprofit Write A House are bent on fixing up some portion of the Michigan city's thousands and thousands of vacant and blighted homes and handing them over to writers for virtually nothing, forever. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )
David Sirota / TruthdigDec 14, 2013
Though these questions have mostly been ignored, continuing to ask them can at least highlight the fact that something nefarious is happening right now in the Motor City. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )
BLANKDec 10, 2013
Since May, four main houses in Tyree Guyton's internationally known Heidelberg Project have been leveled by arson fires. In many ways, the showdown between the artist and the arsonist says more about Detroit than does the city's recent bankruptcy filing. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )
BLANKDec 4, 2013
In a perverse case of making the victim pay for the crime, a federal bankruptcy judge says the city of Detroit can renege on pension promises. Experts say the decision could be a template for other governments seeking to get out from under obligations. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )
BLANKNov 22, 2013
In separate scandals, police in suburban cities outside Detroit and Miami have been targeting blacks in disgusting abuses of their civil rights, including allegedly forcing a mentally ill black man to "dance like a chimp" while a cop recorded him, then shared the video with friends. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )
BLANKNov 12, 2013
A spate of killings and random shootings defines, in a sick way, a nation. As Detroiter Kim Trent asks, where's the outrage? Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )
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