MARCIN SZCZEPANSKI/DFP Capoeira is a Brazilian mix of martial art, dance and acrobatics. historically, it was practiced by African slaves in Brazil and both violent and jovial means of coping with their oppression. Over the last 70 years, capoeira progressed from an illegal art to n...
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Eric Seals - The historic Elmwood Cemetery in Detroit hosted the 25th annual Veterans Day ceremony honoring members of the 102nd Civil War Colored Troops. The ceremony included a fly over by jets, presentation of wreaths, prayers, songs & remembrance from over the 300 people who attended includi...
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MARCIN SZCZEPANSKI/DFP Ford engineers demonstrate a new generation of seat belts that include a pocket that fills with air in case of accident multiplying the protection and coverage area of the belt at Safety Innovation Lab at the Ford Dearborn Development Center test track in Dearborn, MI.
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Eric Seals - DFP Pedicabs also known as Rickshaws have come to the Detroit Riverwalk. "Rickshaw Detroit" a company started by two Detroiters take people one way or round trip up and down the Riverwalk for a small fee for a nice smooth and comfortable ride. Eric Seals - DFP
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MARCIN SZCZEPANSKI/DFP Catherine Ferguson Academy is a public high school in Detroit where dreams are born and nurtured, as the late rapper Tupac Shakur put it, like a rose growing through the concrete. It’s an alternative, all-girls school in a typical poor neighborhood in Detroit wh...
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MARCIN SZCZEPANSKI/DFP Thirty six seems too young to lose a dream. But after serving 14 years in prison for unarmed robbery, Mike Chegwidden, who may have become one of the best hockey players to come out of the UP, knows he has to let one go and find another.
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