- Detroiters Speak Winter 2025: Rethinking Education Justice
- Fall 2023 - Desti-Nations of Hip Hop
- Winter 2022: Making Labor Work - Organizing for Power in the 21st Century
- Winter 2021: Pandemic Politics - From Lockdown to Liberation (Virtual)
- Fall 2020 with General Baker Institute: Policing Black Power - From Watts to Detroit (Virtual)
- Fall 2020: Healing Justice (Virtual)
- Winter 2020: Detroit 2020 - People, Power, & Politics
- Fall 2019: Healing Justice Workshop Series
- Winter 2019: Whose Safety? Policing Minds, Bodies, and Borders in Detroit
- Fall 2018 Workshop Series: Healing Justice as Building Cultural Resilience
- Winter 2018: From "Two Societies" to a New Society
- Fall 2017: Reclaiming the Commons
- Summer 2017: Beyond '67 - The City-Wide Citizen's Action Committee
- Winter 2017: Toward Education Justice
- Detroiters Speak Archive
Detroiters Speak returns for the Winter 2025 semester with a focus on "Rethinking Education Justice." The course will explore three overarching questions:
Who decides what and how we learn in schools?
Why are there so many gaps unaddressed by schools?
What is organizing and why do we need it to build power for change?
Series Dates: February 11, 25;
March 11, 18; April 1, 8, 15
**Tuesdays from 6:30-8:30pm
Light dinner served from 6:30-7:00pm
Class sessions run from 7:00-8:30pm
Free & open to the general public: Register here.
Series Collaborators: Detroiters Speak is a collaborative "community classroom" series that is open to everyone and anyone in Detroit and the greater Metro region. This series is being organized by the UM Semester in Detroit Program and the UM LEAPS Program (Marsal Family School of Education), and our anchor Detroit community partners are 482Forward, The James and Grace Lee Boggs School, and Racquet Up Detroit. Special funding support for this series is provided by the Engage Detroit Workshop Program in the Office of the Provost.
Find more specific information about each session (location, speakers, suggested readings) in the drop-down boxes below: