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Luxury Strike Bowling CEO Terrance Jackson, Jr. is Today’s Honoree

Terence Jackson Jr., an African American entrepreneur from Southfield, Detroit, has converted a 53-foot semi-trailer truck into a bowling alley-on-wheels. It’s called Luxury Strike Bowling and it’s the world’s first ever mobile bowling alley. Jackson, who is 34-years old, has reinvented the … Continue reading

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Author Constance Smith is Today’s Honoree

About The Book: In the mid-1950s, an innovative group of women at General Motors (dubbed the Damsels of Design by marketers) and their counterparts at Ford, Hudson, Studebaker, Packard, and Tucker changed automotive history forever. Read the untold story of the women who excelled in … Continue reading

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Sports Neurologist Dr. Vernon Williams is Today’s Honoree

Sports Neurology and Pain Medicine found me. I can’t say that I ever had a revelation to choose these fields of medicine. I didn’t carefully consider and weigh the options or agonize over a decision to pursue this or that … Continue reading

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Detroit Activist Yusef Bunchy Shakur is Today’s Honoree

Author, father, youth mentor, inspirational speaker, community organizer and bookstore owner are just a few of the significant roles willfully acquired by the indispensable Yusef Bunchy Shakur. His innate ability to overcome the odds of growing up in a fatherless … Continue reading

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Hip Hop Preacher Eric Thomas is Today’s Honoree

Renown speaker, educator, author, activist and minister, Eric Thomas is rising to national prominence by delivering a high energy message that tells youth through first hand experience how to live up to their full potential and greatness and by breaking … Continue reading

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Detroit Grandmont Rosedale Resident Mary Muhammad is Today’s Honoree

Mrs. Mary Muhammad is a retired police officer. She writes The Grandmont Monitor (a n informative monthly community newsletter for the Grandmont Neighborhod). She is a mother, grandmother and dedicated wife. Her neighborhood (Grandmont/Rosedale Park) was selected for a police … Continue reading

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Motivational Minister Brenda A. Jenkins is Today’s Honoree

Brenda A. Jenkins is a national motivational speaker that gets right to the heart of the issue. She is the mother to four adult children and the proud grandmother to twelve grandchildren. She loves people. Brenda is very transparent and … Continue reading

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Jackets For Jobs CEO Allison Vaughn Is Today’s Honoree

Helping the Community one Business Suit At a Time Everyone has a favorite phrase, motto, or a refrain they like to say to use to describe their life. You can hear young people repeating the phrase used by popular rapper … Continue reading

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Today’s Honoree is Stylicia A. Bowden

Ms. Bowden was born and raised  in Detroit, Michigan, “The Motor City” where she started creative writing at  the young age of 8 years old. She wrote plays, poems, short stories and songs  throughout her childhood. Creative writing was a … Continue reading

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Today’s Honoree is Irva Faber-Bermudez

Irva Faber-Bermudez is President and CEO of Detroit Central City Community Mental Health, Inc. She is an advanced practice nurse with a specialty in psychiatric mental health nursing. Ms. Faber-Bermudez has broad expertise in behavioral health clinical practice, healthcare system … Continue reading

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