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Xtreme 365 founder Quintin Love Jr and fellow boxing coach Terrence Kendricks
Posted inDetour Detroit Archives

A Knockout Success — all before high school graduation

by Courtney Wise Randolph September 13, 2021October 11, 2023

Detroit teen Quintin Love, Jr. runs a photography business, holds a 3.5 GPA at Cass Tech and started boxing and mentoring program Xtreme 365 to train other teens.

Posted inDetour Detroit Archives

Bags to Butterflies provides a second chance for formerly incarcerated women

by Allison Jacobs September 8, 2021October 11, 2023
vicki hooks green at her coney cart
Posted inDetour Detroit Archives

Detroit teacher Vicki Hooks Green slings coney dogs to save for retirement

by Courtney Wise Randolph August 25, 2021October 11, 2023
tiara boyd wearing a mask while standing in front of her hamtramck spa
Posted inDetour Detroit Archives

Hamtramck zoning board allows Esthi Queen Healing Spa to stay open after blowback

by Courtney Wise Randolph August 3, 2021October 11, 2023
tiara boyd wearing a mask while standing in front of her hamtramck spa
Posted inDetour Detroit Archives

Black spa owner faces parking complaints and perceived prejudice in Hamtramck

by Courtney Wise Randolph July 29, 2021October 11, 2023
toni porter sits in her shop toni's collection in the neighborhood where she grew up on west mcnichols in detroit
Posted inDetour Detroit Archives

On W. McNichols in Detroit, Black women entrepreneurs are holding it down

by Courtney Wise Randolph July 19, 2021October 11, 2023
carol, imani, and djenaba -- three of the six founders of black bottom garden center
Posted inDetour Detroit Archives

Black Bottom Garden Center, a garden supply co-op, takes root in the North End

by Courtney Wise Randolph June 16, 2021October 11, 2023
Illustration by Steven Shik
Posted inDetour Detroit Archives

How a legacy Black-owned business adapted to serve Detroit mourners during an epidemic

by Imani Mixon May 14, 2020October 11, 2023
RollerCade skating rink in Southwest Detroit is a family-owned business that's been open for three generations.
Posted inDetour Detroit Archives

RollerCade, a black-owned skating rink in Detroit, has survived for generations with ‘neighborhood-first mindset’

by Detour Contributor September 19, 2019October 11, 2023
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