![]() On the agenda were concerns about affordable housing, the loss of traditional public schools in the immediate area, and gentrification that have affected the North End and other areas in Michigan’s largest city - one that has a 79% African American majority. “They don’t represent me.” The Grand Hotel, | Susan J. ![]() “They have their own agenda and unfortunately, they use people of color as pawns on the chess board to get us to vote or support what they want,” said Glenda McGadney about the 1999 state of Michigan government takeover of Detroit Public Schools that was backed by the chamber. The Monday gathering included Detroit activists who reject the objectives of Detroit Regional Chamber’s Mackinac Policy Conference that begins Tuesday up north. It was an annual “Blacinaw Island” meeting in the city’s North End community. They met under a huge peach tree nestled on a grassy double lot during a sweltering 90-degree evening in Detroit - not the breezy porch of the Mackinac Island Grand Hotel.
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