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In the summer of 1980, Detroiters and local merchants eyed one another with increasing anger, apprehension and anxiety following the shooting deaths of two youths and one retailer within a two-week period. Relationships within the community were strained, and then-Mayor Coleman Young organized a meeting with city leaders to confront the problem. Ed Deeb...
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The Detroit Fire Department received reports of 42 suspicious fires in the city on the night of July 4 and the early morning of July 5. The numbers apparently marked a Detroit tradition of a number of years of razing structures in order to celebrate July Fourth.
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How are you spending your Fourth of July weekend? For part  of ours, we went forth to the Stars and Stripes Festival in Mount Clemens, which concludes Monday night at 10. Here are some of the sights and sounds so far. —Michael Walton is a Metro Times intern.
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Roughly a dozen men and women from the U.S. Social Forum stood outside the Federal Building on Lafayette Boulevard Thursday, squabbling with security guards in an attempt to gain access to Congressman John Conyers’ office located inside. From the look of things, you might have thought that the guards were protecting Conyers from people...
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