Detroit’s Birwood Wall: Hatred & Healing in the West Eight Mile Community vernors coaster Jim Daniels’s fifteenth book of

Jim Daniels’s fifteenth book of poetry is a time machine that takes the reader back to the Metro Detroit of his youth and then accelerates toward the future

Ludwinski spends her days singing

Yanik then details Hull’s surrender and its repercussions for Detroit

But as the 20th century arrived

focusing on the wide range of contemporary artists finding inspiration amid the emptiness and adding a more complex chapter to the story of a city long labeled as a haunting symbol of U

Detroit’s Birwood Wall: Hatred & Healing in the West Eight Mile Community vernors coaster Jim Daniels’s fifteenth book of"Detroits Birwood Wall: Hatred & Healing in the West Eight Mile Community" By Gerald Van Dusen, Foreword by Reverend Jim Holley, PhD In 1941, a real estate developer in northwest Detroit faced a dilemma. He needed federal financing for white clients purchasing lots in a new subdivision abutting a community of mostly African Americans. When the banks deemed the development too risky because of potential racial tension, the developer proposed a novel