The new contemporary exhibit, Black Bottom Street View, takes visitors through the Detroit neighborhood from 1949 to 1950, before the neighborhood was razed for redevelopment and highway projects. To ...

That blossomed to 300,000 by 1950. Detroit’s historic Black business community was concentrated in adjoining neighborhoods called Black Bottom and Paradise Valley. Later, this area was targeted ...

Detroit Repertory Theatre continues its exploration of legendary playwright August Wilson’s Century Cycle with “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom,” a work especially well known to many since 2020 ...