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Stephen Henderson
@SHDetroit
Journo. Founder, @BridgeDet313 | Host, Created Equal @wdet & ABJ @detroitpublictv | Founder, tuxedoproject.com | Detroit Native | @UofDJesuit @UMICH grad
Detroit, MI
Joined October 2011
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    In the 1950s, the state of Mississippi refused to let my father, a Korean War vet, vote. They had ostensible cover - like poll taxes and literacy tests. But it was really about Jim Crow. Racism. So what’s it called in Wayne County when a white woman votes to decertify my vote,
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    If 99% of mass killers in this country were young black men, what would we be hearing about black culture, black parents, black families? So... isn't it time - way past - to talk about how and why white culture, white families, produce mass carnage? #TexasSchoolMassacre
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    Replying to @jelani9
    Bro: loved the library so much I made part of it a permanent fixture in my adult home. Lol.
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    "We have a set of problems in our country that have never been dealt with and now we are paying the price," says @RashidaTlaib of racist foundations of America #detroittoday @wdet
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    "It's time that we have a reckoning...it's hard to try to talk about healing w/o accountability, or unifying when many of our colleagues still want to overthrow this election," says @RashidaTlaib on acknowledging longstanding racial inequity #detroittoday @wdet
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    "Many of my neighbors are now being called 'essential workers' when before this they were called 'unskilled workers,'" says @RashidaTlaib on #DetroitToday Tune in right now at 101.9FM or stream at wdet.org | @wdet
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    Before a single primary ballot was cast in person today, a MILLION Michiganders voted in today's primary. A MILLION. Early voting. Absentee voting. Expanded ballot access. They're working. They. Are. Working. Don't doubt. #MichiganPrimary
    BIG voter turnout news in Michigan today! Over 1 Million (!!) citizens have already voted in our Presidential Primary! That's a 13% increase in pre-Election Day voting over 2020! Watch today's press conference here for more data on early voting in MI! youtube.com/michsosoffice
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    Replying to @SchuetteOnDuty
    .@SchuetteOnDuty @DrJillStein Except that Mich. law provides for exactly what she is requesting. Is it AG'a job to squash legal process?
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    On proposal to make Election Day a state holiday: "It enables people to serve as election workers on Election Day...It increases engagement and transparency of the process...And it does emphasize the preeminence of Election Day in our culture" - @JocelynBenson #DetroitToday @wdet
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    Replying to @SHDetroit
    with unproven and unsubstantiated accusations of “voter fraud” as ostensible cover? Jane Crow? Maybe. Racism? For sure. #upsouth #election2020
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    "They're truly dedicated to the principles of this commission," Secretary of State @JocelynBenson says of the members of Michigan's new independent redistricting commission. What questions do you have about redistricting? Comment using #DetroitToday & tune in now on 101.9 @wdet
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    1/3 Former Michigan governor @onetoughnerd made decisions that poisoned an entire, majority-black city’s water supply. Was there a plot to kidnap and kill him? Did BLM stake out his vacation home? @GovWhitmer tells people to stay at home and wear masks in a pandemic,
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    Some news: At the end of this week, I’ve decided to leave WDET, after 10 years as host of the station’s morning public affairs show - formerly Detroit Today, now Created Equal, a daily examination of the tensions between inequality and opportunity in America, with a focus on how
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    "We had the worst tax foreclosure crisis in the nation in Wayne County...it's important to know that...we have a Black housing crisis on our hands...we need events like this to convene change agents," says @RashidaTlaib of #BlackHomesMatter event tmrw #detroittoday @wdet