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  2. New project Merit Park to bring recreation, fitness ... - AOL

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    May 17, 2024 at 4:12 PM. DETROIT (FOX 2) - A community in Detroit is welcoming a new development that will provide learning and recreational activities for young people. The land is located on ...

  3. Empowerment Plan - Wikipedia

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    The Empowerment Plan was established as a 501 (c)3 nonprofit corporation in 2011, by Veronika Scott, who was a student at the College for Creative Studies in Detroit. Beginning as a school project, Scott initially designed the sleeping bag coat, called "Element S (urvival)" from the Tyvek home insulation and wool army blankets to help the ...

  4. Model Cities Program - Wikipedia

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    The Model Cities Program was an element of U.S. President Lyndon Johnson 's Great Society and War on Poverty. The concept was presented by labor leader Walter Reuther to President Johnson in an off-the-record White House meeting on May 20, 1965. [1] In 1966, new legislation led to the more than 150 five-year-long, Model Cities experiments to ...

  5. Sojourner Truth Project - Wikipedia

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    As a strikingly controversial project in 1941, Sojourner Truth Project set precedents for Detroit housing project policy through the next decade. Created by the Detroit Housing Commission (DHC) and United States Housing Authority (USHA), the proposed 200 units would alleviate housing shortages caused by the wartime climate of World War II .

  6. Veronika Scott - Wikipedia

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    Veronika Scott is an American social entrepreneur and CEO and founder of The Empowerment Plan, a Detroit-based humanitarian organization. Personal life and education [ edit ] Scott was born on June 27, 1989, in Orange, California , but was raised in Huntington Woods, Michigan , a town just outside of Detroit.

  7. Critical pedagogy - Wikipedia

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    Critical pedagogy is a philosophy of education and social movement that developed and applied concepts from critical theory and related traditions to the field of education and the study of culture. [1] It insists that issues of social justice and democracy are not distinct from acts of teaching and learning. [2]

  8. People Are Awesome: Salvation Army Week, KSMU turns 50 and a ...

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    Special Olympics Missouri and the Kickapoo High School Golden Girls will host a dance clinic for SOMO members 3:30-5:30 p.m. May 19 at the school. Thirty slots are available for the free clinic ...

  9. Detroit Lakes station - Wikipedia

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    Detroit Lakes station. /  46.81972°N 95.84583°W  / 46.81972; -95.84583. Detroit Lakes station is an Amtrak intercity train station in Detroit Lakes, Minnesota, served by Amtrak's daily Empire Builder. The building was originally built by the Northern Pacific Railroad and has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since ...