Podcasts about mexicantown

Elton Monroy Durán's murals can be found on the side of supermarkets, restaurants, and viaducts all around the Southwest neighborhood in Detroit. His work celebrates the residents and history of Mexicantown. GUEST: Elton Monroy Durán, artist ___ Looking for more conversations from Stateside? Right this way. If you like what you hear on the pod, consider supporting our work. Music from Blue Dot Sessions.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

From the Great Migration to the impact of the I-75 extension in Detroit, Black and Latinx Americans have seen many parallels through their decades in the city. Today, we talk about the history, development and gentrification of Southwest Detroit, including Mexicantown, Corktown, and Delray. GUEST: Maria Elena Rodriguez, native Detroiter, entrepreneur, activist, and former president of the Mexicantown Community Development Corporation. Looking for more conversations from Stateside? Right this way. If you like what you hear on the pod, consider supporting our work. Stateside's theme music is by 14KT. Additional music by Blue Dot Sessions. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Mexicantown: How an already vibrant community is moving into a 21st century High Tech region. In 1989, a group of Latino community leaders with expertise in business development and training, unified in the mission to create a Latino-owned and operated agency, Mexicantown CDC. Join Ray Lozano, Executive Director, and host Ed Clemente to learn about how this very diverse community is evolving with support from many non-profits and private and public groups working together to solidify this Southwest Detroit region.  Learn how the Ford Motor Company mobility innovation district in Corktown, located around the renewed Michigan Central Station, is also affecting the rest of the Southwest region in how they live, work and play.  Discover the interesting biography of our guest from his challenging Latino roots, on being a Vietnam Veteran, and running the Michigan Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, his work with DTE and his many other career paths. Mr. Lozano also discusses some future trend predictions and experienced career advice. You can also read the transcript from our conversation. 

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  Stephen Mack Jones is a published poet, an award-winning playwright, and a recipient of the prestigious Hammett Prize, Nero Award, and the Kresge Arts in Detroit Literary Fellowship. He was born in Lansing, Michigan, and currently lives in the suburbs of Detroit. Dead of Winter is his third novel. Dead of Winter:A shadowy Detroit real estate billionaire. A ruthless fixer. A successful Mexicantown family business in their crosshairs. Gentrification has never been bloodier. https://www.stephenmackjones.com/  

LIVES LAID AWAY is Stephen Mack Jones's second novel featuring ex Detroit police detective August Snow. In LIVES LAID AWAY, Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents are harassing residents of Snow’s neighborhood, Mexicantown. When Snow, who is half black and half Mexican, is asked for help in identifying a young Hispanic woman dredged from the Detroit River, he discovers a trafficking scheme preying on undocumented immigrant women. From there Snow sets out guns a blazing to destroy the trafficking ring with or without the help of government authorities. In our interview, Jones shared how his anger with the Immigration and Customs Enforcement treatment of immigrants fueled the plot of his novel. Stephen Mack Jones is a published poet, and an award-winning playwright.

LIVES LAID AWAY is Stephen Mack Jones's second novel featuring ex Detroit police detective August Snow. In LIVES LAID AWAY, Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents are harassing residents of Snow's neighborhood, Mexicantown. When Snow, who is half black and half Mexican, is asked for help in identifying a young Hispanic woman dredged from the Detroit River, he discovers a trafficking scheme preying on undocumented immigrant women. From there Snow sets out guns a blazing to destroy the trafficking ring with or without the help of government authorities. In our interview, Jones shared how his anger with the Immigration and Customs Enforcement treatment of immigrants fueled the plot of his novel.Stephen Mack Jones is a published poet, and an award-winning playwright.

The second installment of the Snow series follows the detective as he fights back when his Mexicantown neighborhood is caught in the crosshairs of a human trafficking scheme.

A Hollywood film director makes a giant splash at the Oscar Awards when he says Shinola is “saving Detroit” and the interweb asplodes. We talk about what that ridiculous, off-the-cuff comment means about the city and its nascent comeback. There’s a lot more news to be had on today’s episode. We also discuss that Medium blog post announcing a new bodega — that’s essentially New York City parlance for “party store” — for the hard-hit Russell Woods neighborhood on Detroit’s west side. It’ll reportedly be part of a larger development, and the post ends with the hashtag, #MakeTheHoodGreatAgain. Also on today’s show: Notorious Detroit landlord Dennis Keffalinos has the building that formerly housed El Zocalo on Bagley Avenue in Mexicantown – DetNews The Canadian government aims to waive tolls for cyclists using the Gordie Howe International Bridge – CBC The Fonz is coming to Motor City Comic Con Dearborn gets a nod as one of the top suburban, uh, suburbs in the country in which to eat – Thrillist Detroit City FC will take on the Bucks, which have moved to Flint, in a final preseason friendly Oakland County downtowns and businesses can apply for $2,500 matching small-business grants through a county program Mardi Gras is coming, and along with it, PAZCKI and assorted festivities like the Tour De Troit 5K – SIGN UP As always, thanks for listening. We love you.

Ideal Group President Loren Venegas talks with Crain's Senior Reporter Chad Livengood about how the company his brother founded in 1979 has grown from a steel fabrication business into a multifaceted enterprise that designs and builds bumper post bollards for major retailers, sells obsolete auto factory machine parts around the world and does general construction contracting. In 1995, founder Frank Venegas Jr. began moving his business from Livingston County to a shuttered General Motors plant on Clark Avenue in southwest Detroit's Mexicantown.

Hey friends! This is you Daily Detroit for Wednesday, March 7, 2018. Our stories: -A new plan emerges for the fail jail -Detroit City FC will be broadcast on Fox Sports Detroit for the first time -Mexicantown in Detroit is getting support to grow its business district -Mirror, mirror on the wall.. what are the best Metro Detroit suburbs? And two conversations. One focusing on Mayor Mike Duggan’s State of the City and Daily Detroit’s Shianne Nocerini talks about new spring markets downtown.

Wyniki wyborow w Detroit, Mac OS X Leopard, wycieczka przez Mexicantown, Tigers Stadium, International Institute of Detroit, DIA i The Thinker, filmy dokumentalne w University of Michigan, FullWypas, Moja Male Radio

Wyniki wyborow w Detroit, Mac OS X Leopard, wycieczka przez Mexicantown, Tigers Stadium, International Institute of Detroit, DIA i The Thinker, filmy dokumentalne w University of Michigan, FullWypas, Moja Male Radio