Detroit is Different

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  • Latest episode: “Sweat Equity, Experience, and Smarts are Talents Richard Hosey pours into Development”
  • Latest episode: “Healing the People and the Land with Dr Demarra West at Hearth Summit Detroit”
  • Latest episode: “How Neighborhood Organizing Shaped Councilmember Latisha Johnson”

Football was the gateway that took Keith Williams to Eastern Michigan University, where his knack for sales soon took hold. In the 1980s, he was selling business forms and starting a printing company. We explore his transition from the Republican Party to help develop a farmers market of the Lodge Service Drive and Livernois. His love for Black people was his motivation. Keith opens up about a decision he regrets and discusses how politics is fundamentally about interests. He sees Black business and Black ownership as the primary interests at hand.