‘Structural Racism 101’ topic of DBA?program
Wayne State University Law School Prof. Peter Hammer will be the featured speaker at an August 24 program offered by the Detroit Bar Association.
The online event will begin at 4 p.m. and is titled “Structural Racism 101: Basic Training for Lawyers.” Hammer will help attendees understand the dynamics of structural racism as an evolving dialectic between belief systems and institutions that have mutated in form from slavery, to Jim Crow segregation, to the forms of spatial-structural racism that define Southeast Michigan.
“This presentation will define and distinguish the many forms of racism that we confront: express racism, structural racism, spatial racism and forms of implicit bias,” said a spokesperson for the DBA. “Due to oversubscribing for the first session, we are offering this ‘course’ again, so those who couldn’t attend could have the chance to hear this program which received outstanding reviews. Of course, we welcome those who want to join a second time.”
Hammer has taught at Wayne Law since 2003. He teaches “Race, Law and Social Change in Southeast Michigan” and “Re-Imagining Development in Detroit: Institutions, Law & Society.”
Hammer is also the director of the Damon J. Keith Center for Civil Rights at Wayne Law. The Keith Center is dedicated to promoting the educational, economic and political empowerment of under-represented communities in urban areas and to ensuring that the phrase “equal justice under law” applies to all members of society.
To register, visit detroitlawyer.org.
Plan for old Detroit fairgrounds includes Amazon warehouse
DETROIT (AP) — A real estate developer with eyes on buying part of the former Michigan State Fairgrounds in Detroit is in negotiations that would bring an Amazon distribution center to the site.
Hillwood Investment Properties and local partner the Sterling Group plan to purchase 142 acres (57 hectares) of the property along Detroit’s northern city limits.
A 3.8 million-square-foot (353,000-square-meter) facility is planned. More than 1,200 full-time jobs are expected to be created. Amazon could become the first anchor tenant and occupy about half of the 142 acres.
“What Detroit needs more than anything right now is jobs,” Mayor Mike Duggan said this past week in announcing the proposed project. “The developers and the new tenant will be working closely with our team at Detroit at Work, which will be helping to provide outstanding candidates who are residents of the city.”
The development team would pay $9 million for the land and $7 million to build a new indoor Detroit Transportation bus center. The proposed project would be privately financed, without tax breaks or other financial incentives, according to Duggan.
A purchase agreement is expected to be presented to the City Council in September. If approved, work could start by the end of October.
The Michigan State Fair last was held at the site in 2009.
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