Voices include Bernard Kilpatrick, Stephen Henderson, Adam Graham, a Lions tight end, a Hazel Park lesbian and a Deadline reader.
"Bottom line: I messed up, no question about it." -- Bernard Kilpatrick, quoted by Detroit News
“Napoleon is too rooted to the status quo.”
-- Detroit News editorial endorsing Mike Duggan for mayor
"When Fox 2 tweeted today that Martha Reeves had died (oops), this is what they meant."
-- Adam Graham of Detroit News, linking at Facebook to coverage of Maxine Powell’s death
"They are idiots! Remove them all and the state should take over!"
-- Michael Parlow of Warren, commenting at our Facebook page on Detroit Council vote against 30-year state lease of Belle Isle
“Let’s drop the silly pretense of colorblindness, and deal with what race means in this state, and how we might fix it."
-- Stephen Henderson, Free Press columnist, on affirmative action case
“I found downtown in a much better shape than I expected.”
-- Julia Damianova, Austrian reporter, describing brief Detroit visit for our site
Graphics by Lauren Ann Davies.
