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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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MCHR Board Member Dorothy Aldridge Quoted in Free Press about voting rights and “Selma”

Posted January 19th, 2015  |  News

This article, by Eric D. Lawrence, was originally published in the Detroit Free Press. Metro Detroiters planning trip to Selma for anniversary As a retired teacher and librarian in the Detroit Public Schools, Gloria Mills appreciates history, so much so that she helped organize an outing through her church to see the movie “Selma” earlier […]

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These Rare Photos of the Selma March Place You in the Thick of History

Posted January 18th, 2015  |  News

This article was written by Natasha Geiling and was originally published by Smithsonian Magazine. We highly recommend you check out the original article to view the photos taken by James Barker. James Barker was a technical photographer, working with Washington State University’s Division of Industrial Research in Pullman, Washington, when he received an unexpected phone call […]

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