The Throwaways
Chadburn’s beautiful, brutal essay pairs memories of poverty and the foster care system with an unlikely clarion call: pay your taxes. “Taxes are revolutionary,” she writes. “When I pay my taxes I am telling my community I value you.”
How One Man’s Fight for His Detroit Neighborhood Went Viral
Armed with nothing more than a video camera and a YouTube channel, Jonathan Pommerville has become a one-man neighborhood patrol—fighting to protect his blighted Detroit neighborhood from dumpers, drugs and prostitution.
Out from Under
A Detroit family fights to win their house back in the Wayne County foreclosure auction after being scammed by a sub-subprime entrepreneur.
Mystery Meat, Bologna Soup and Maggots
A former prisoner describes what it’s like to actually eat the food at a Detroit-area jail; the failings of Aramark, the company the Michigan Department of Corrections contracts for food service; and the thriving underground economy that supplements state-issued meals.
The Eminem interview
The greatest rapper on earth gets personal on Proof, guns, Bill O’Reilly and being an artist from Detroit
