“Housing is a human need, and policy has to meet people there.” Haley Stevens says in this Detroit is Different conversation, and that line sets

“Everybody was moving to the north for jobs,” Beverly Smith says, and in that one line she opens a powerful story of migration, Black ambition,

“‘You got to love your way through this’ is more than a quote in this Detroit is Different conversation with Terry Campbell—it’s the thread connecting

“Everybody needs that bridge.” In this Detroit is Different conversation, Njia Kai—Mama Njia of NKSK Events and Productions—pulls up with the kind of wisdom that

“I was never raised to think that there was something that I couldn’t do.” That spirit lives all through this rich Detroit is Different conversation

“You are a Black Panther. You’re a Malcolm X. Do something.” That charge from Edythe Ford, Executive Director of MACC Development, sets the tone for

“Women are the backbones of family, of community,” Theresa Landrum (of the Original United Citizens of Southwest Detroit) declares in a Detroit is Different conversation