Natalie Achonwa, former WNBA player and four-time Olympian with Canada’s national team. 📸 Globe & Mail
Zahria Liggans, 18, Alexia Carroll-Williams, 17, Kayla Carroll-Williams, 15, (center) and Deja Crenshaw, 18, are key members of the Cass Tech Girl's Lacrosse Team. 📸 The Guardian .
Maddie and Becca came forward about sexual harassment and assault they experienced at Young Life. 📸 Business Insider
Amal Sayed , 17, a high-school senior in Dearborn Heights, Michigan, applied to 21 colleges in 2021. 📸 The Wall Street Journal
Sydney G. James, a Detroit artist renowned for her vibrant murals celebrating Black Detroiters. Her work, showcased globally, reflects her deep love for the city. One of her standout pieces is the 8,000-square-foot “Girl with a D Earring" featuring local community activist, Halima Cassells as the model. 📸 AFAR
“I am terrified every day about an oil spill and what that would mean for our ability to fish, to gather, to eat together,” said Whitney Gravelle an Ojibwe person who is president of the Bay Mills Indian Community. The 70 year-old Line 5 pipeline pushes a million gallons of oil each hour through the meeting point of Lake Huron and Lake Michigan a combined system that forms the largest lake in the world.
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Liz Shulman, 38, of Pittsburgh, was diagnosed with Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder at 35, after attempting suicide in 2021. “The me that I see myself as is driven, passionate, loves her friends and family. But the werewolf I become wants to die constantly.” 📸 The Washington Post
“We watched this city go through the worst, and now that it’s being built back up, we can’t even afford it,” said Marcus Jones, the owner of Detroit Pizza Bar, who intentionally hires from the neighborhood and keeps menu items below $20. 📸 Baltimore Banner
Angelene Love, a Michigan-based doula a co-founder of Wrapped in Love Doula & Lactation Support who also works with Mae, a doula network that works with Medicaid in six states to provide in-person and virtual sessions to expecting mothers. 📸 New York Times
Dr. Stephenie Lucas Oney, 75, stands in her kitchen in Grosse Pointe, Mich. November, 2023. Oney uses HereAfter AI, an app powered by artificial intelligence, to pose questions to her father, William Lucas, who died last year. 📸 The New York Times
Detroit Opera House’s artistic director, Yuval Sharon wants to create an ‘anti-elite’ opera and is making efforts to balance tradition and innovation 📸 Financial Times
Fashion designer Tracy Reese at her studio in Detroit, Michigan. 📸 Insider
Toledo Museum of Art’s Director, Adam Levine. 📸 New York Times
Artist Jordan Weber’s “New Forest, Ancient Thrones,” sculpture in East Canfield Village in Detroit. 📸 New York Times
Melissa Dittmer, head of place for Michigan Central the historic former main intercity passenger rail station in Detroit. 📸 Crain's Detroit
Abbas Alawieh, a spokesperson for the Listen to Michigan movement sits in a coffee shop in February, 2024. Alawieh, was a child during the 2006 Lebanon War between Israel and Hezbollah. “I could have been killed by one of those U.S.-funded Israeli bombs ... I could have been one of those kids whose stories we don’t know,” he said. “That child inside of me, a child that too many people here in southeastern Michigan know all too well ... is saying the most urgent thing you can do right now is to advise President Biden to call for a cease-fire.” 📸 NPR
Santonio “Tone” Ford, 48, sits inside his barbershop, Authentic Kutz in Cleveland, Ohio where he offers opportunities to formerly incarcerated people in early April, 2023. “ 📸 The Marshall Project
Cliff Douglas, a longtime anti-smoking warrior and president and CEO of the newly named Global Action to End Smoking, at his home in Ann Arbor, Mich. 📸 STAT News
Nicolette Kleinhoffer, president of the ballroom dance team at University of Michigan. New York Times
As a child, Regina “Mama Ravin” Lawson, 75, lived in the thriving Black Bottom community, a majority Black neighborhood in Detroit named for its rich soil, with her family in the late 1950’s and 1960’s. That is until the city cleared the neighborhood, destroying hundreds of Black-owned businesses to replace it with highway I-375. 📸 NPR
Ralph Carter, founder of “WE ARE LINDEN” in Columbus, Oh. on Jan. 15, 2024. The organization focuses on holistic resources and programming to help systemically at-risk youth and families maintain pride and improve the safety and wellness of their community.
Charae Williams Keys held her late husband’s wedding ring on a necklace, which she said she rarely takes off. 📸 New York Times
"Men would rather love trans women of color in private and kill us in public than have anybody in the hood know of their association with us," said Julisa Abad, a trans advocate who is the program director at the Fair Michigan Justice Project. "Things are never going to change until we change that social stigma." 📸 Insider
Demetrius Morgan and Nia Mitchell during the the sixth consecutive day of protests against police brutality the death of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and others on Wednesday, June 3, 2020 in Detroit, Michigan. They happened upon the protest after spending a day together in downtown Detroit. “This has to be the last straw," Morgan said. 📸 Personal Work
Cass Tech High School Girl's Lacrosse Team. 📸 The Guardian
“We were not prepared,” said Danielle Krozek with her daughter, Madi a current sophomore at Oxford High School. The two are part of a group of parents and children affected by the 2021 Oxford high school shooting who are determined in their search for answers and accountability. 📸 ProPublica
Dr. Arline Geronimus at her home in Ann Arbor, Michigan in 2023. 📸 @nytimes
Lakia Higbee at her home in Cleveland, Ohio in September 2021 . 📸 The New York Times
W.T. Stevens CEO, Rhonda Grayer sitting with a late 1960’s photo of her Dad, W.T. Stevens. The construction company founded by Grayer’s father landed $27 million in contracts to replace 5,000 lead-contaminated water pipes in Flint, Michigan between 2016 and 2019. 📸 INC Magazine
Kelci Norton,18, cries at a Black Lives Matter protest in May 2020 in Detroit, Michigan. “Right now I’m very hurt and distraught, because there are so many instances where police are not held accountable,” she said. “Silence is compliance and we can’t have that.” 📸 The Atlantic
Red Rose Florist shop owners Deborah Nelson, 58, and Stan Nelson, 59, in Detroit, Michigan. 📸 The Wall Street Journal
Dr. Valeria Valbuena a doctor at the University of Michigan working to improve pulse oximetry for Black patients and patients with darker skin. 📸 STAT News
The Rev. Dr. Dale B. Snyder Sr., a pastor of Bethel AME Church in Pittsburgh is among those whose retirement accounts are frozen. 📸 WSJ
Michigan State University senior Jackie Matthews was 11 years old when the mass shooting occurred at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut. On Monday, Feb. 13, 2023 evening a gunman opened fire killing three students and wounding five in a mass shooting at Berkey Hall and the MSU student union building. “I’m 21 years old and this is now the second mass shooting I have lived through.” 📸 NBC News
Robert Julian-Borchak Williams,42, with his wife, Melissa Williams, 37, and two daughters Julia,6, and Rosie, 3, at their home in Michigan. A faulty facial recognition match led to a his arrest for a crime he did not commit.📸 The New York Times
Key'Maura Lewis, 15, and her grandmother Barbara Gilleylen, 59, embrace in their backyard on in Kalamazoo, Michigan. 📸 The New York Times
Judy McCray, 63, was FaceTiming with her sister Deloris Curry, 69, a resident at Westwood Nursing Center in Detroit Michigan and was shocked to see a staff member enter the room without a mask. 📸 AARP
Medical student Emily Otiso in Detroit 📸 The Star Tribune
📸 MSU College of Music
American playwright, George Brant photographed at home 📸 The New York Times
Elaine, 2021. 📸 Personal Work
Bevertone 📸 Personal Work
Kemi Dauda: 📸 Vice+ Lenovo's 2020 New Realities Campaign
Nealmonte Alexander 📸 The State News
Pastor Daniel Moore of Shiloh Missionary Baptist Church says the Flint water crisis and the pandemic have a lot in common. “The distrust and frustration are similar.”
Fash Bash 2019 📸 SEEN Magazine
Roslyn Karamoko, owner of Detroit is the New Black 📸 SEEN Magazine
Rapper Travis Thompson, 2021. 📸 The Seattle Times