Detroit riots

“Detroit,” director Kathryn Bigelow’s bleak look into the American psyche through the lens of Motown’s 1967 race riots, was a punishingly hard sell at the box office in its first weekend of wide release, taking in $7.3 million from more than 3,000 screens. The Stephen King...

When Wright Lassiter III became CEO of Henry Ford Health System in Detroit, he said he was surprised by the reaction to his being named to the position as a black man. Then he learned that Henry Ford Hospital once had only one ward that treated African American patients, and it was originally...