in detroit, people are always apologizing for detroit. it was found that to be a detriment to the city. always thought as chicago, there are very powerful city. that is finally changing. and very glad of that because i really thought over my course of living here, it's really hard the city a lot. a lack of civic pride. david: i think the keywords, i really feel that. i felt that this week over the last six months and years stronger than ever before. ... ... [applause] thank you everyone for today, very some insightful commented it's great to have these gentlemen with us and great to have all of you. books will be on the first floor outside of the gift shop, you can purchase a book there and a whole bunch of other things and i know david will be happy to personalize that for you. thanks again. [applause] >> thank you, it was great. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] >> that wrapped up a look at programs from archives, you can watch any of these programs or any of his other appearances on book tv or c-span by going to our a

the chair and commenter today is jamon jordan, who is the detroit -- president of the detroit chapter of asala and tour leader and historian on all things detroit. a community scholar out of detroit. a wonderful set of folks going to help us think about politics in detroit and michigan and how to make sense of that. so i'm going to throw it over to the panel now. again, thank you for being here. >> right, thank you, patrick. hello, everybody. my name is jamon jordan. real quick before we start with the panel. i want to thank everybody for coming to this session and hearing a little bit about detroit's politics, and particularly the radical politics. and i think, of course, i thank my panel for being here. i want to say even though it's conyers we're talking about the mid 20th century up until the beginning of the 21st century, their span of influence in that time period of rosa parks, john conyers, and mayor young detroit's radical politics began in the 1800s. a couple of things that happened in 1800 that sets the stage for detroit to be in the top bed of radical-like politics. there'

detroit. >> you will stay. i think in a way, you are a metaphor for detroit. you were a contractor you led to the financial crisis, you own a home you were proud to own in a neighborhood you felt was very stable with families who played outside and played on the porch. you had a hard time thinking use of your construction skills and then you have a house you bought for two years and it turns out standing property taxes, you knew about the later year end not the earlier year and has struggled to try to make it here. >> to come out of nowhere. every so often. within six months with investments, the house was in foreclosure. i was told nothing about it. >> you were both very heroic and i'm so grateful for spending all the time talking over the years in opening your lives to me. >> i needed the story to get out. thousands of other people wouldn't get a chance. you get everybody around and it doesn't seemed like it changes after two years. it's a different thing going on. it's different than is in the neighborhood.

we are about to hear from a senator who is not from detroit but has detroit in her heart.was the district attorney in san francisco, she started a program called back on track to take people have been convicted and give them a path right back into the workplace. here is your second chance. she did not do this when it was politically popular. she did it in 2004. because it was the right thing to do. and so in 42 days we get a chance to change this, and get at the administration in washington that is on detroit side. so please, vote early, i know the governor is about to do it shortly. request your ballots. i believe detroit is going to decide the election in michigan. we are going to turn out big. let's all get to work. ♪ ♪ >> we now welcome congresswoman brenda lawrence. >> hello everyone. i am so glad to see you all here. i want you all to think about that you are the place holders for about 10,000 more of you around michigan. because we are in this to win this. you are here today to witness our team, our efforts and all that we are going to do to make sure that the peopl

detroit response for c-span. my name is peter hammer. i'm a professor of law and i direct the center for civil rights here at wayne state university law school and welcome you. at the center we take very seriously the proposition that structural racism is our generation's civil rights challenge. i think you will see the stories we have here provide kind of a personal narrative of what it means to be living in a city dominated with the effects of spatial structural racism. i want to give a shoutout to the deal, who is the sponsor of this, generously supported by the kellogg foundation. we have just ended our fourth cohort which we're celebrating. we will be announcing our fifth. but as a capacity building and fellowship building program that takes 25 or 30 individuals working at organizations dedicated to racial equity and takes a year-long process of trying to develop skills, teach lessons, build capacity and build trust and fellowship that enables better collaboration in advancing racial equity. that's the deal.

and also the host of detroit today. we may have a couple other guests joined on the panel discussion who were profiled in the book. we will escort them in when they arrive. with that, what we will do is have jody start off. she will do a little reading. then we will open it up to questions and answers. i will give it to stephen. >> thank you so much for being here. i'm excited and have trepidation about discussing this book. this is your city. this is where you've lived. i'm eager to hear your responses and hope we can have as much time for conversation as possible. so i am going to keep my remarks to a minimum. what i'd like to do is, this is a book that follows seven people living in detroit during and after the city's bankruptcy. it's not a book about midtown. it's about the neighborhoods where the seven people live. i'd also point out that the time. the book is income and in the fall of 2018. i'm aware there have been changes since then. what i'd like to do is introduce you to the seven people in the book. two of th

detroit's radical politics begin in the 1800s. a couple of things that happened in the 1800s that really sets the stage for detroit being a hotbed of radical politics is an uprising in 1833, when 400 black people leading uprising to say to people from slavery. they had been captured by slip catchers, the sheriff and deputy were also involved in the city of detroit, and they will first preet lucy by having a black woman go into the jail cell with her and switching close with her. she visits in the sheriff illustrated visit, and she switches close with lucy blackburn. this sheriff, he thinks all of these black women lookalike, he could not tell which one he should be letting out and which one was still there. that is how she escapes. the next day, there's 400 people outside to free thornton blackburn. in the course of that, the sheriff will be killed. one of the people who passes the gun to thornton, who is being transported by the slave catchers, and he's given again, is a man who is named madison lightfoot. madison lightfoot who h

in detroit. bringing in really a complete cabin ledley rising pleasure to keep could you see here in the city in this market the computer. you that's where i had heard. which was much smaller than it is now it wasn't getting national publicity. and feed. there's an agriculture. world here we take everything eastern market. and it's mostly big trucks yeah yeah people love their cars and. people want to brand it is this you know green plays which is great and people are kind of taking on that mentality still detroit still always going to have a big cars until there's. something else that's yeah it's. in cities. in cities. we don't use any kind of chemical fertilizers or sprays or anything. just lots of compost and hard work. so this garlics been saved in detroit for about 7 years now so it does better and better each year because you're selecting the ones that do the best and like oh my goodness i just. really love. is the match. living some kind of you have a dream here he. is going to give. here

the chair and commenter today is jamon jordan who is a -- the detroit -- president of the detroit chapter of asalh and a tour leader and historian of all things african-american detroit. really an incredible community scholar out of detroit. a wonderful set of folks, going to help us think about politics in detroit and michigan and how to make sense of that. i'm going to throw it over to the panel now. again, thank you all for being here. >> all right, thank you, patrick. hello, everybody. again, my name is jamon jordan and i'm the chair. i'm going to offer a couple of remarks quick before we start with the panel. thank you for coming to this session and hearing a little bit about detroit's politics, particularly its radical politics. and i think, of course, thank you to my panel for being here. we're talking about the mid-20th century up until the beginning of the 21st century, their span of influence, that time period of rosa parks, john conyers and mayor young, really detroit's radical black politics begin in 1800. a couple of things that happened in the 1800 that is really sets the st

[applause] >> why was is detroit different? >> how was detroit different from chicago? and being the motor city could you comment on the fact that gm and chrysler. >> another said bankruptcies but the question was how is detroit different from other cities i would first say that i think it is on trend from past decades and by the federal government into the peaks of the late seventies and following steadily between 80 and 88 in response to the financial crisis with the sequester but all those that have balanced budget requirements turn around and pass the cuts to cities and they have been left to balance their budgets by going into the financial markets and all of that risk that was accumulated didn't harm for the financial crisis. so that was representative and in some ways it was largely a wine industry town that has suffered from mobilization and suburbanization and about cuts to the gm plant so that is certainly that detroit is unique on the other end because of the car industry , it is a place where philanthropic foundations because of the historic american spirit

things african-american detroit. communityincredible scholar out of detroit. a wonderful set of folks who will help us think about think about politics in detroit and michigan. i am going to throw it over to the panel. thank you for being here. >> thank you. chair.e i have a couple of remarks really quick. i want to thank everybody for detroitnd hearing about politics in particular is radical. i think my panelists for being here. about theking the20th century up until beginning of the 21st century there is a span of influence of rosa parks, john conyers, and mayor coleman young. the radical black politics began in the 1800s. a couple of things that happened that really sets the stage for detroit being this hotbed of radical black politics is the uprising in 1833. 400 black people lead an to free to people who escape slavery. they had been captured by slight captures and the sheriff and deputy were also involved. they will first free lucy by having a black woman go into the jail cell with her and switch clothes with h

when you look at the rest of detroit, the majority of detroit and a real black detroit, there is no comeback. amy: congressmember rashida tlaib, i went to ask abobout a rerelated issue, the presidentil campaign level, democratic presidential candidate michael bloomberg criticism over thiss recently resurfaced a video clip that shows him blaming the 2000 eight mortgage and financial crisis on the elimination of the long-standing racist lending policy known as redlining. this is georgetown university president speakingng to bloombeg in 2008. >> you made some reference to the elements t that led to where we are tododay. couldd youou go a a little deeed tell us from your perspective, how did we get here? >> you could go back i would s y it probably all starteted back when there was a lot of pressure on banks to o make loans too everyoyone. wasining, if you u remember,, the term where banks took hold neighborhoods and said, people in these neighghborhoods a are , they wilill not be a able to paf ththeir mortgagages, t tl your salelesman don't go into ththose areass. then congress gott invololved,

mayor duggan: welcome to detroit. you what it is like to be mayor of detroit when donald trump is the president. in march, when we got hammered with covid, we were losing 50 people a day. we needed test kits to test the folks at nursing homes to figure out which ones were sick and why they were dying. when the hospital workers and nurses needed gowns and masks because they were getting sick and dying, when people were packed on gurneys in the hallway. we turns to the federal government for help and leadership, and do you know what donald trump said? i'm not a shipping clerk. it is not my job. you are on your own. think about what that meant in 2009, when gm and fca were about to close down in bankruptcy and if barack obama had said, it's not my job. we would not have 5000 jobs at the fca plant coming down the street, 2000 more jobs if the gm -- at the gm plant with the new electric vehicles and trucks. were in bankruptcy and joe biden was here over and over, and when i showed him that a third of the buses in the city

the middle of detroit you can go to chickens in detroit i'm like yeah right in the middle of detroit so i can hear them actually in the distance it's a you that's it's as if that's a pheasant you can have presents and all the while but what have. i you just give me yeah we've got pheasants rabbit. box if you if you took a shot right here it went right across the street it looks like you're in a forest and a speck in the fama no when people ask you what you do and they say would have been clear in. my coding tints no the only open farmer in detroit in fact he's part of a growing movement when i started obviously roland seedlings in the house my dining room i'm living in was full of plans somebody sent me the e-mail saying that there was a meeting of diners and they were telling them about the different resources that they offer it's all like a weight was lifted off my shoulders and i'll think yes i have to just. you know. must take me to that's works highly productive urban agriculture and education hub supplies would be city farmers with everything they need from support to seedlings

for many detroit is the epitome of urban blight but to find out how detroit's urban environment is already showing signs of a green renewal we head across town to georgia street community garden. set up a few years ago by mark colvin tin urban farming pioneer and local hero mark. a man you know i. am i have to lead a neighborhood when i was younger it was a car dealership owner on down the street we had restaurants all the stores shoe shops everything needed was right here. and. over half a 1000000 detroit is live closer to convenience stores than groceries and with limited public transport nearly half of the city living below the poverty line access to healthy affordable food is often a challenge they call if you don't drive it and you can't get out of town the malls where people buy food. like this. or das stations and the little scarce markets that we grocery store that we do that we do have places where people can go get food but it's how healthy it is you know and how cheap i cannot employ is what you buy you know when you come here and you get a you know. sized pepperoni pizza for a

-i want the challenge of building a business in detroit by people's hands from detroit. -mm-hmm.offer is $300,000 for 51 percent. i think needs $100,000 for building out efficiencies in the shop. it needs to have some rhyme or reason to it. -right. -things that allow us to lower cost and increase output. in addition to that, $150,000 for working capital, raw materials, and then, $50,000 specifically for research and development and the creation of new products, buying textiles, trying new things and turning them into real high-margin moneymakers. -so you'd want to see a wider assortment or something? -i think we have to work collectively with the team to allow creativity to breathe. -that's a bit of a shift. -is it? what's so shifty about it? -jeans aren't going to be our primary focus. -this company will not survive as a men's denim jean company. -$300,000 sounds like a reasonable dollar amount. on the personal part of it, i have put money in, and i'm a 10 percent owner. giving up 50 percent of my investment, how do i get my return on my investment? i would like to be able to, y

years here in detroit. now pursuing ph d's at the university of southern california, santa cruz and santa barbara. they were charming young men. talking to them in california. >> the book banned from 1913 until the present. >> what did you learn about detroit from the book? >> and you both are natives; correct? >> duke university published the books. we found it. due to come out on may day. we thought that it would be very interesting as a mayday book. they do talk about the workers and the history of the workers as well as the workers of the world. >> alyson jones turner, once again, if you could lean in once again so we can see all of you, what has it been like with the publishers and the booksellers association. had they been helpful during this? >> they have been helpful. they have really supported us. they are really trying to help us get through this time. american booksellers association, they have virtual meet ups to help cheer us out. they help spread resources and share, i guess, practices among t

several years in detroit. now a -- pursuing ph.ds at the university of southern california, one in santa cruz and one in santa barbara. so they were charming young mean and we were in our dining room talking to them. >> the book spans from 1913 to the present of detroit. >> what i had did you learn about detroit from the book? >> what did we learn? i guess -- >> you're both natives, correct? >> yes. duke university published the book and i guess in looking into things coming up, we found it, and it was due to come out on may day and we thought it would be very interesting as a may day book to come out because they do talk about the workers and the history of workers of detroit as well as workers of the world. >> now, alyson jones-turner if you could lean in just a little bit so we can see all of you. >> company, sorry. >> not a problem. what has it been like talking with the publishers and the booksellers association? have they been helpful during this period? >> they've been helple. the publishers have really

detroit stood with us. we did know that many of the protesters were not detroiters.y lived either in the metro detroit area in some instances outside of the state -- gerry: can i just is ask you, who were they? we've heard a lot about antifa, others. was it organized political agitation? >> you know, i think that's still being investigated by our federal partners. the way we viewed it, all of that could be true. but the way our focus, we just simply said they're criminals. but it was clearly coordinated. and not just -- if you look at what was happening in detroit and why we didn't have the level of destruction and violence, there were some similarities across the country. and so we were, you know, closely watching what was happening say in los angeles, cities like chicago that saw significant disruption and violence to see what we could see. but i tell you, i think what's very different, most of our protesters were outside. but more than that, detroiters were appalled. the outsiders were coming into our city, and some woulding you know, make efforts to create violen

in california for detroit. >> you learn about detroit from the book? >> duke university published the book and i guess in their, the things that are coming up, we founded and we got in touch with them, it was due to come out on may day and we thought it would be very interesting as a made a book to come out because they do talk about the history of workers of detroit as well as the work of the world. >> allison jones turner, if you can lean into we can see all of you. >> sorry. >> not a problem, with the publishers and the booksellers association have they have been helpful during this? >> the publisher has really supported us in the really trying to help us get through this time. an american book association have a virtual meet up to help tourists out. and they share practices among industry that can help us at this time. >> there's a new website calle e you taken part in that all? >> there is so much happening we cannot do everything at once but we can find out from bookshops in fact we haven't mirror lies that a lot because we've been so hard-workin

and this is all in midtown detroit. >> so how far from the downtown area and detroit are you. >> about eight or 9 miles. downtown is one district in detroit and then midtown is the next one after that in years ago, this was created like another part of the city. and that is another 7 miles beyond us. but we really are in the heart of the cultural life of the city with the universities, the library, the main library and the health centers, and a lot of galleries and african-american museums and historical exams so were in a wonderful cultural area of the city. i always call it the heart of the city. host: just a couple of blocks off of woodward avenue if people in detroit) it. janet: the invention of the training goes up and down the road. if it's 1 mile, and that 1 mile, i mean, one block so woodward avenue and you were right with us. host: allison, was-like for you. >> we had to get used to our doors shut because of the covid-19 situation. so we had to go into the unfamiliar ground of online selling. so we have a website with booksellers on online credit we have been packing things up

>> i hope so, except for detroit, i mean. you saw what type of class they had in terms of walking off the court in defeat, but, you know, that's them. that's their nature. we expected it. >> they won. they won. they won. >> i'm not giving the bulls no credit. >> the team walked off that afternoon, but, as always, everything pointed back to the star who'd been the face of the pistons since the day he was drafted 10 years earlier. >> what this team accomplished, um... was history, you know? >> it cost him. it cost him that he wasn't a beloved character in the history of the national basketball association. he should have been. >> the following summer, when the dream team dominated the barcelona olympics, isiah thomas was left off the roster. and, more than 20 years later, no one's forgotten what was seen as his final act. >> in my mind, the walk-off against chicago bulls was isiah thomas' idea. >> it was engineered by isiah. >> oh, yeah. i was the one that was the instigator of walking off the court. did it feel good for me? ab

in detroit, but i do not see that in 2020. i see enthusiasm and can feel energy. i can feel the people here in detroit are going to get out and do what they're supposed to do. we are going to drive people to the polls. and i believe that if we can turn out detroit, i believe that michigan will go to blue. i do not believe that took place in 2016. for all of you people who live north and you feel this passion about a man who is taking advantage of you, a man who would not give anything for you -- i am a veteran and was very offended when that comment that came out in "the atlantic" that said we were losers, and my son is in the air force. no, i do not believe in trump. i do not believe in nothing that that man said. and if you're one who would take a schechter and you want to vote for him, go ahead. if covid gets you, that is too bad. host: professor dulio, his first remarks about the state of play in michigan guest: sure, at first i would say to the caller, thank you for your service. really, the state of play, the caller said

the suburban communities around detroit, in some cases they had issues much greater than detroit, they not say we should not certify them. they said, let's not certify detroit. that is tantamount to let's not certify the black vote. black votes matter. black lives matter. wet this is very simply is were in a different country, this would be called a coup, a political coup. because what you've seen is the president has declared that i will not leave office unless i win. slow the post office down. take out mailboxes. stop the mail from coming through. this -- discredit the guy who's in charge of the election process who called it the most secure election that we have had. no evidence of fraud, no evidence of voter rigging. none of that. then to have lindsey graham calling the secretary of state in georgia, he is a senator from south carolina not georgia, get him to not certify and to discount some of the votes and now we see the latest strategy since the judges in the courts around america are not going with this nonsense, the move is to not certify -- if we cannot certify, we can delay

i am a detroit. voter and our voices have been negated in the past, most notably with the emergency management vote and the overwhelming objection to the detroit bankruptcy. i have been here most of my life, i am a third generation. as a young girl i saw families abandon their beautiful homes, churches and schools just because families of different skin colors began to live their dreams of homeownership. much of the tax base was -- left with those white families, leaving detroit in poverty because of that abandonment. it astonishes me today to see a whole race of people leave their homes unforced just to maintain all white communities. i love my neighborhood and i love my neighbors. i would not take anything different. administration, people in detroit watched for four long years a president and a party that stole, griff did, cheated and broke the law without being held accountable or any of it. all of this while black and brown people are being charged, locked up, separated and killed by dishonorabl

most of the cases cluster in detroit with nearly 6,000 cases, detroit outpaces 37 states. in the city is now handing out masks on public transit. there are indications that people in detroit are taking this seriously, staying home, and it's working. the system director for infectious disease prevention in detroit says indications are good, and that means there is a chance that hospitals will be able to handle the volume of patients. >> we've seen a number of new cases start to decrease day over day for about the last three to four days, but as i look at what the burden is on our health care systems, we still have an unbelievable number of patients in our hospitals, and unbelievable number of patients on ventilators and nicus. we are preparing for this to go on for another several weeks. >> in the event that patients overwhelm the hospitals they are, the army corps of engineers is converting to convention centers in the suburban showplace into field hospitals.

then we go to detroit, site of the first u.s. major study into whether or not the antimalarial drug hydroxychloroquine could help prevent the spread of coronavirus. this after weeks of president trump promoting the drug despite the warnings from medical experts. pres. trump: that is hydroxychloroquine. again, you have to go through yourur medical people to get the approval, but i have seen things that i sort of like. so what do i know? not a doctor. i'm not a doctor, but i have common sense sense. amy: we will get response from dr. abdul el-sayed, former head of dittrich department of health. we will also look at the ongoing water shutoffs in detroit. all that and more, coming up. welcome to democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and quarantine report. i'm amy goodman. the united states has the highest number of recorded covid-19 deaths, at over 22,000, after it surpassed italy's death toll on saturday. all 50 states now have a major disaster declaration in place. over half a million cases have been identified nationwide, but

when somebody from detroit, the kickoff luncheon for this literary festival, if anything, detroit is the biggest city ever to file for bankruptcy, for the most part, the most important achievement of any american city ever. the seeds for the darkness, in this book and specifically in one chapter, the detroit race right of 1943. pretty brutal ride, black versus white, finding diaries of people who fought in the ride and what their descriptions were and you would think these people surrounded by an urban riot with this much death and gore they would have been frightened but they aren't, these people what they wrote down and remembered about it, i don't think joy was the word i am looking for but how much they wanted to kill righty and how much white people wanted to kill black people. that is what happens. >> in spite of all the tension, this is ripping the glossy cover off of it. this is a huge success in the be 24, this was a weapon, putting nazis to rest, and help america and its allies -- >> the rise of american airpower. early in the war before the war started in europe, september

steve: you cover a lot of trade issues for the "the detroit free press." who has the upper hand on that topic? scott: that will remain to be seen because president trump has made such an issue of trade in the last election, and nafta -- the rewrite of nafta, for instance, means a lot in michigan where autoworkers rightly or wrongly feel nafta sent a town of jobs to mexico, -- sent a ton of jobs to mexico, and they never brought them back. that is what really caused the auto industry jobs for years, which there is evidence on both sides of that. biden, though, has supported trade deals and certainly supported trade deals as vice president under barack obama, had a particular kind of demeanor and rapport with working-class voters who do not see him as quite such a globalist as maybe other democrats. there is a working-class feel to him that puts him more in line to take that fight to trump in a way different than secretary clinton. but you raise a very, very good point. i would expect trump to bash biden over the head with trade, and do it repeatedly. that w

an election person with the week of detroit the week before the election, this detroit employee directly observed on a daily basis other city of detroit election workers coaching voters to vote for joe biden and the democrat party. this employee witnessed employees to do democrat ballots and witnessed them going over to the voting booth with voters to watch them vote and coach them who to vote for. in the last two weeks, while the same employee was working at the polling location, she was instructed by supervisors never to ask for driver's licenses or photo id when a person was trying to vote. and the absentee ballots that existed were required to be 9:00 into the system by p.m. november 3, 2020. this is required to be done to have a final list of absentee voters who returned their ballots part -- prior to 8:00 3.. november to have enough time to process, all locations were instructed to collect absentee ballots from the dropbox once every hour. detroitber 4, a city of election worker was instructed to improperly predate the absentee ballots that were not in the app. she was told to alte

so that's why i wanted to call it "detroit 2" because when i associated that with my music, "detroit"all over every news thing, every social, instagram, everything, they threw -- is it their third annual big sean day >> yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah >> jimmy: they have a day for you in detroit >> yeah. >> jimmy: how cool is that that's -- that's your place. >> it's amazing. >> jimmy: i love seeing you. i love having you. congrats "detroit 2" is the record. >> yeah. >> jimmy: big sean >> yeah. >> jimmy: stay tuned for an unbelievable performance from big sean thank you so much. congrats to everything, and say hi to your dad for me, will you? >> yeah, i will. i will [ laughter ] >> jimmy: we'll be right back with a performance from big sean stick around, everybody. ♪ i'm voting 'yes' on prop 19. nineteen limits taxes on seniors. it limits property tax on people like me. nineteen limits taxes on wildfire victims. it says so right here. if 19 passes, seniors can move closer to family or medical care. i looked at moving but i can't afford the taxes. will you help california's most vulnerabl

since then, detroit has been largely calm.e place where the phrase mostly peaceful protests hasn't been a media myth. but the end of last month, at the end of last month, violence flared up again when some protesters attacked the cops in detroit there. so what's law enforcement now doing to keep cities safe? here again is detroit chief of police james craig. chief craig, thank you for joining us. >> glad to be here. gerry: you had a retively quiet -- relatively quiet summer, you've managed to keep things in detroit -- which, obviously, has got a history of unrest and some racial tensions, but you kept things relatively quiet. tell us how you think you've been able to do that. >> well, a couple of things. first of all, i have to applaud the men and women of the detroit police department who have just tone a superb job, you know? -- done a superb job. they understood our mugs. we don't retreat here in detroit. i've repeatedly said that. but also the relationships that we've developed not just after knowed, but -- after floyd, bu

people have often come to detroit for family reunions and all that. so i felt really uncomfortable about being just to open and now we're finding there's uptick in cases in michigan as well. not to the degree as in the south. so i thought we were just have to have short pickup hours on the weekend and can it keep our doors close. when people come to pick up we do welcome them to come and browse around if you like, and they are very good about that. we have our masks and our sanitation station right at the door. we are really learning as we go, taking baby steps and looking to see how this door response and how our customers respond. >> janet and alyson, we talk to you last on may 5 and that was prior to the killing of george floyd in minneapolis. how did that as a black owned business, how did that affect you? >> it affected us in two ways. we have a lot of compassion for the family and for our community in particular that resist police brutality and police violence. and so when the marchers came by our store, we cheered them on. we also, i think it a

which i am privileged to represent, and as a detroiter. for uniteddate states senator, comes before this court to request that it breach its duty to certify the 2020 election. his letter is the latest assault on the integrity of the election. an assault carried out with six frivolous lawsuits. refused to honor the wayne county results prior to the wayne county board of canvassers' certification, and to award the wing county certification of results. the other lawsuits were voluntarily dismissed. board toames asks this do what the courts would not do and what this board may not do. he said that there were irregularities and anomalies in election administration. not only were these claims brought and rejected in court, they were thoroughly examined in the press and demonstrated to be spurious. but they are more than that, they are part of a racist campaign directed by the soon-to-be former president trump. he has disparaged the cities in this country including detroit, philadelphia, in milwaukee. trump and his allies have made repeated asser

host: todd spangler for "the detroit free press." give us a sense of the political landscape right now. todd: the political landscape in michigan is not promising for president trump and his reelection efforts in michigan. right now it looks like the state he was able to flip in 2016, michigan is the furthest out of reach. it has looked that way all along, but it is far more seen in the polling now. the most recent poll we have seen from our pollster shows a 12 point lead for biden in the wake of the pandemic. there was a hot spot in michigan for a while. a lot of partisan feelings. then having the military come into deal with protests, and some of the tweets president trump has done fighting with governor whitmer, who was well liked michigan according to polls. at this point, things look pretty bad for him. that does not mean he could not make it back up, but comparing michigan with wisconsin and pennsylvania, other states he won closely, michigan is looking better for biden. host: let's go back to 2016, many said michigan was a blu

the votes did not come from detroit, chris. they didn't come from detroit.id they come from? >> show us. >> this is so important. where did it come from? it came from the suburbs. that's where it came from. look at this. in the detroit suburbs, which is basically everywhere outside of detroit in wayne county plus all the counties that touch wayne county. look at this. the democratic vote margin up 123,761. that's where most of that vote came from and the overall turnout in those detroit suburbs was up 16%. it was the suburbs that turned against donald trump. it wasn't detroit. it wasn't philadelphia, say, if you're taking pennsylvania. it was the suburbs in all of these states, and the president just can't seem to comprehend it. he tends to think it's some sort of big city machinery that did him wrong and created fraud. no. it was suburb bean voters who turned against the president because they couldn't take him or his rhetoric. >> so as i said in the open, if it is that he has some kind of malady that devours intellect and takes reason prisoner, that would

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