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Photo from TedxDetroit talk
Not everyone loved the late Coleman A. Young, who served as mayor of Detroit for 20 years. And not everyone recognized his accomplishments after taking over a city in 1974 that had been scarred by the 1967 riot.
Khary Kimani Turner, an educator, author and artist from Detroit who heads the Coleman A. Young Foundation, delivered a graceful talk last October at TEDxDetroit in the Fox Theatre about the accomplishments of Young, who he believes was a visionary. Young died in 1997 at age 79.
"I simply suggest he had a different way of loving the people of Detroit, of loving the city," Turner says.
Among the things he gives Young credit for is helping create the theater district where the Fox now stands, the Joe Louis Arena and the Jefferson Chrysler Plant on the city's east side.
Young's son, state Sen. Coleman A. Young II, is running for mayor this year, hoping to carry on his father legacy.
This year's TEDxDetroit is Nov. 7.
