Join us for the 2015 MCHR Founder’s Event on Monday, Nov 9 at Marygrove College’s Denk Chapman Hall at 7 pm. The Bishop H Coleman McGehee Jr. Founders Award will be presented to Rev. Harry Cook. Lawyers, activists, and humanitarians Alice Jennings and Carl Edwards will also present “Revolutionary Humanism in the 21st Century”. A […]
Join us at St. John’s Episcopal Church (11 Mile and Woodward- parking in Rear off 11 Mile.) on four Tuesdays this fall for our Fall Film Series. All films start at 7 pm and are followed with a lively, facilitated discussion. Please note that the date for the film “Growing Up Trans” has been changed […]
Over twenty years ago, MCHR organized four historic Freedom Tours for metro-Detroit high school students. We are proud to announce that it is happening again! We will be traveling from June 19 to June 29 2016 to visit historical sites in the civil rights struggle and meet with people who lived, made, and are still […]
MCHR is co-hosting readings and discussions of 3 plays revolving around the recent history of Detroit with WSU and other organizations on October 13-15 at the Charles H. Wright Museum in the General Motors Theatre. PARADISE BLUE Paradise Blue sets the scene in 1949 in Detroit’s Paradise Valley, now Lafayette Park. Blue, an exceptional trumpeter, […]
Jorge Parra, the leader of ASOTRECOL (Association of Injured Workers and Ex-Workers of GM Columbia), is returning to Detroit. He and his fellow workers just completed 4 years of their encampment at the US embassy in Bogota, protesting GM’s criminal behavior towards its workers. Kalamazoo College recently selected ASOTRECOL as one of ten finalists for […]
