Putting Detroit's Residents First with Khalilah Burt Gaston

08/24/21 • 56 min

Donna is back from her bae-cation!!!
Khalilah Burt Gaston joins Donna and Orlando to talk about the Residents First Fund that grants dollars to grassroots organizations and resident-led projects doing the important work of creating and sustaining thriving communities in Detroit.
In the process of recording this episode, we found out that native Detroiter, television and radio personality, activist and political consultant, Steve Hood passed away. Donna honored her childhood friend.
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What's up, fam! Donna is still on vacation so Orlando is hosting solo this week! He goes one on one with Detroit Griot and Historian Jamon Jordan. A new historical marker has been erected that acknowledges the old Black Bottom neighborhood in what is now Lafayette Park. Jamon gives us a historical account of Black Bottom and how the process he and others went through to acknowledge the now razed Black Bottom.
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