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Two eye-opening interviews featuring MCHR board member Frank Hammer

Posted January 21st, 2015  |  News

Here are two interviews featuring MCHR board member, activist, and former auto worker Frank Hammer for your viewing pleasure. The first explores the debate around MI Bill 5977, which would prevent Detroit from creating the nation’s first community benefits ordinance and may be introduced again in 2015. In the second interview, Frank talks about the […]

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Now Hiring Temporary Position: Associate Coordinator for Annual Dinner Event

Posted January 21st, 2015  |  News

MCHR is looking to hire someone for a temporary position: “Associate Coordinator, Dinner Program, Michigan Coalition for Human Rights” for the Annual Dinner Event, Sunday, March 22. Position available Now through March 22 15-20 hour to March 8 / Full time 9-5 March 9-March 22 •Responsible for development, outreach to past and potential sponsors, program […]

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New Prices on Detroit Repertory Fundraiser Play Tickets! Join us Jan 18, 2pm

Date: Jan 18th 2015, 1pm  |  Fundraisers  |  News

Join us at the Detroit Repertory Theatre on Sunday, January 18th, 2015 at 2 pm for a showing of the play “Sweet Pea’s Momma”: Synopsis: Coralee is a maid for Abigail and her family. Among other things she cares for Georgie, Abigail’s grown developmentally challenged son whom she affectionately calls Sweet Pea. On the day […]

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Detroit Repertory Theatre Fundraiser: Sweet Pea’s Mama

Date: Jan 18th 2015, 1pm  |  Fundraisers  |  News

Join us at the Detroit Repertory Theatre on Sunday, January 18th, 2015 for a showing of the play “Sweet Pea’s Momma”: Synopsis: Coralee is a maid for Abigail and her family. Among other things she cares for Georgie, Abigail’s grown developmentally challenged son whom she affectionately calls Sweet Pea. On the day Martin Luther King, […]

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MCHR 2013 Freedom Tour remembered in Free Press article

Posted January 19th, 2015  |  News

This article, by Eric D. Lawrence, was originally published in the Detroit Free Press. Trip to Selma connected local students to civil rights When she walked across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Ala., with a group of students from Michigan a year and a half ago, Chrisdiona Williams was just learning about some of […]

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