Detroit

The Detroit Black Women's Council invites you to their launch event focused on 'Women, Policy, Power and Possibilities.' The event will take place at Wayne County Community College's Northwest Campus at the LEC Auditorium. This event will be a fun evening of food, fellowship and discussion about how we, as black women, can work together to impact the policies impacting our families and community.

Dinner will be served at 5pm and feel free to bring children.

Five years ago, in 2013, 250 Detroiters gathered at Marygrove College to create the Detroit People's Platform. This year we will come together again for the Detroit People's Platform's 2018 Summit.

Majority-Black Detroit Matters

Please save the date and plan to join us on September 8th at SEIU Local 1 at 2211 East Jefferson Avenue from 9 a.m. until 4:30 p.m. Lunch will be provided. The event is free, but registration is limited.

More details about the event will be shared soon.

Last month, the City of Detroit announced plans to shut off water to more than 17,000 residents resuming a condemned practice of denying water and sanitation service to low income households. Meanwhile, Detroit and surrounding cities are in the middle of an alarming Hepatitis A epidemic! This public health crisis has led to national travel warnings not to go to Michigan.

We’re excited to share that we’re joining forces with We the People of Detroit and the East Michigan Environmental Action Council to host our first Youth Environmental Justice Forum in Detroit on May 19.

The forum will focus on air and water pollution issues in Southeast Michigan, but advocates of all ages are invited to join us for an empowering afternoon of sharing our stories, strategizing and finding new opportunities to join together in action.

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It's almost summer in southeast Michigan, which means our summer outreach calendar is booking up fast with Pride festivals, community health fairs (potlucks/bbq sometimes included), and River Days! Oh my!

We need YOU, our dedicated Planned Parenthood volunteers, to sweat out the season with us this summer! So, whether you’ve volunteered with us in the past, or you’re new to our movement, this volunteer training is for YOU.

Please attend the PWB monthly meeting and help out. Thousands of families in Detroit are at risk of having their water shut off in the next few months. We must come together and organize.

We will also be discussing/organizing/mobilizing Solidarity Saturdays, the Michigan Poor People's Campaign, and much more. This is a working meeting so folks that come will hopefully be leaving with tasks and next steps.

There is so much to be done.
Now is a perfect time to show up and help out.

Join consumer, environmental and health advocates for a rally and petition delivery in support of the clean car standards!

Organizers have collected more than a quarter million petition signatures calling on Ford to stop working with the Trump administration to roll back greenhouse gas emission and fuel economy standards that will cut more than 6 billion metric tons of climate pollution and save billions at the gas pump.

Come join Michigan United, the Latinx Student Association, the Rranxburgaj Family Sanctuary Campaign, the Nadeem Family Sanctuary Campaign, ABISA (African Bureau of Immigration & Social Affairs), and Action of Greater Lansing to help keep immigrant families together! The pilgrimage will take place over a week, starting on May 14th at the Central Methodist Church in Detroit and ending on May 22nd at the Lansing State Capital. At our different stops we welcome people impacted by deportation to tell their story and all attendees to take action to stop deportations!

Black Women's Roundtable (BWR) comprises a diverse group of Black women civic leaders of international, national, regional and state-based organizations and institutions. Together, the BWR membership represents the issues and concerns of millions of Americans and families who live across the United States and around the world.

BWR Metro Detroit is working with elected State Reps in Lansing to create a Black Women's Agenda for the State of Michigan. We would like your VOICE in creating this agenda and moving Michigan forward for black women and our communities.

While the Motor City Freedom Riders and other transit advocates will continue to fight for a four-county RTA measure, we must also ensure that we have a plan B. Oakland and Macomb county leadership are showing no signs of allowing the people of our region to vote on transit this year, and we cannot afford to wait until 2020 or 2022 for any transit progress. The time has come for Wayne and Washtenaw Counties to set out together, to prepare a two-county regional transit plan for the voters on this November's ballot.