Detroit is Different

  • Latest episode: “Queen Mother Helen Moore’s Fight for Detroit Children for Over 50 Years”
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  • Latest episode: “Four Cities, 29 Miles, One Detroit Story: Leona Medley on Legacy, Leadership & Green Space”

  • Latest episode: “Queen Mother Helen Moore’s Fight for Detroit Children for Over 50 Years”
  • Latest episode: “There’s No Place on the Planet that Loves Joe Louis like Detroit, Joyce Barrow-Henderson, Daughter of Joe Louis”
  • Latest episode: “Four Cities, 29 Miles, One Detroit Story: Leona Medley on Legacy, Leadership & Green Space”

“My dad quietly made some very significant contributions… he brought Rosa Parks to Detroit for the first time.” In this powerful episode of Detroit is Different, Khary Frazier sits down with Jane Fran Morgan of JFM Consulting Group. As the conversation moves forward, she recounts how her academic wanderings—through sociology and vet science at Michigan State—led her to urban planning and community-driven data work. The heart of the episode pulses in her help brinbging to life the Neighborhood Vitality Index: a Detroit-born tool designed by residents, for residents—measuring safety, housing quality, upward mobility, and community pride. Advocating for neighborhood voices in policy conversations, Jane weaves together personal narrative and professional purpose, showing how data becomes power only when the people shape it. This interview is essential listening for anyone invested in the soul of Legacy Black Detroit—and in what it takes to heal and rebuild through culture, connection, and collective data-driven action.