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Detroit Artist Bakpak Durden Paints the Beauty of Becoming (opens the original)
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When most people first encounter Detroit artist Bakpak Durden, they're looking up at a photorealistic mural more than four stories tall. Towering above the Fisher Freeway Service Drive in downtown Detroit, the portrait introduces the interdisciplinary painter as larger than life. Finished in 2023 by Australian artist Sam Bates and commissioned by a New York-based street art nonprofit for its "Detroit Be The Change" campaign, the mural is one of the few times Durden's physical form has been inter
A. Nzere Kwabena’s Cancer Diagnosis Revealed LGBT Detroit’s Next Generation of Leaders (opens the original)
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LGBT Detroit Executive Director A. Nzere Kwabena has stewarded Hotter Than July’s organizing, programming and coalition building for nearly three decades since co-founding the Highland Park-based Black LGBTQ+ festival in 1996. But when a cancer diagnosis forced him to step away from planning this summer's festivities, the leaders he'd mentored became, in his words, his “saving grace.” “I couldn't work for a very long time,” says Kwabena, 61, who says he'd been ill for years before finally receiv
'Black Summers' Turns Detroit Summers Into Stories of Black Queer Joy (opens the original)
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Summer is more than a season in “Black Summers: Growing Up in the Urban Outdoors," published recently by Wayne State University Press. Among the anthology’s 32 contributions of poems, essays, illustrations, creative nonfiction and even comics: a handful of queer-centered stories explore “glistening” basketball players, the thrill of “hide and seek” in Palmer Park and how a citywide blackout awakened a new journey of gender identity. “How many times did I trek Palmer Park’s desire paths — and tho
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