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  2. Killing of Samantha Woll - Wikipedia

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    Samantha Woll was a Jewish community leader and synagogue president in Detroit, Michigan, who was stabbed to death in October 2023. Police ruled out antisemitic motivations for her murder and arrested a suspect in December 2023.

  3. Lillie Lester, America's first female legislative sergeant-at ...

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    Lillie Lester, far left, is among volunteers who canvassed Detroit, in for Coleman Young, who was elected the first Black mayor of Detroit. Other volunteers from left to right in this 1996 photo ...

  4. List of homicides in Michigan - Wikipedia

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    A comprehensive list of notable homicides in Michigan, including multiple, serial and single killings, with dates, locations, deaths and descriptions. The list covers incidents from 1879 to 2022, involving various motives, methods and perpetrators.

  5. David Charles Smith, legendary Detroit Free Press editor and ...

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    A onetime business editor at the Detroit Free Press who was part of a team that won a Pulitzer Prize for coverage of the city's 1967 riot and was inducted into the Michigan Journalism Hall of Fame ...

  6. Kenneth Cockrel Sr. - Wikipedia

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    Kenneth Vern Cockrel was born November 5, 1938, in Royal Oak Township, a poor, black community just across Detroit's northern border.His father, Sye Cockrel, worked at the Ford Highland Park plant and his mother, Cynthia Cockrel, was the first African-American graduate of Lincoln High School in Ferndale, Michigan.

  7. Anthony Giacalone - Wikipedia

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    Anthony Giacalone was a Sicilian-American mobster in Detroit who rose to become a street boss and a suspect in Jimmy Hoffa's disappearance. He was convicted of tax evasion in 1976 and died in 2001.

  8. Charles Gilchrist Adams - Wikipedia

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    Adams served as the senior pastor at Hartford Memorial Baptist Church in Detroit from 1969 to 2019. [6] In 1991 [7] and 1992, [8] Ebony magazine selected Adams as one of the 100 "Most Influential Black Americans". In 1993, Ebony listed [clarification needed] Adams in their list of "The 15 Greatest Black Preachers". [9]

  9. Guy Stern - Wikipedia

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    [21] [22] [23] He also had an adopted son who proceeded him in death. [23] Stern was one of the last surviving Ritchie Boys. He turned 100 on January 14, 2022, [24] and died on December 7, 2023, aged 101, in Detroit. [25] [26] [27] He was interred at Great Lakes National Cemetery in Holly, Michigan. [28]

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