New Detroit works to dismantle racism in the Metro Detroit region by moving hearts and minds and changing policies and systems. Our work includes education, trainings, services, research, and programs to fight racism at the personal, institutional, and systemic levels.
2023 registration and more information is coming soon!
Last year, we had 387 attendees, 43 speakers, 1 ½ days of engaging activity, and lots of positive feedback.
Watch a video of conference highlights here, some interviews by Detroit is Different here.
See the digital program book here.
Take a look below at more highlights from last year’s conference.
Contact Jodee Raines for sponsor opportunities.
2023 registration and more information is coming soon!
Last year, we had 387 attendees, 43 speakers, 1 ½ days of engaging activity, and lots of positive feedback.
Watch a video of conference highlights here, some interviews by Detroit is Different here.
See the digital program book here.
Take a look below at more highlights from last year’s conference.
Contact Jodee Raines for sponsor opportunities.
Our trainings and services provide interactive pedagogical learnings and personalized action plans to provide participants tools and strategies to create racially equitable policies and practices grounded in a deep understanding of racialized systems.
Our trainings and services provide interactive pedagogical learnings and personalized action plans to provide participants tools and strategies to create racially equitable policies and practices grounded in a deep understanding of racialized systems.
Now more than ever leaders recognize they need to be change agents around diversity, equity, inclusion and justice. Join New Detroit and local leaders from our diverse racial and cultural community for a six-part in-person professional development program and become a positive catalyst for change in transforming your business or community organization. Learn more about the series.
Now more than ever leaders recognize they need to be change agents around diversity, equity, inclusion and justice. Join New Detroit and local leaders from our diverse racial and cultural community for a six-part virual professional development program and become a positive catalyst for change in transforming your business or community organization. Learn more about the series.
Now more than ever leaders recognize they need to be change agents around diversity, equity, inclusion and justice. Join New Detroit and local leaders from our diverse racial and cultural community for a six-part in-person professional development program and become a positive catalyst for change in transforming your business or community organization. Learn more about the series.
Now more than ever leaders recognize they need to be change agents around diversity, equity, inclusion and justice. Join New Detroit and local leaders from our diverse racial and cultural community for a six-part virual professional development program and become a positive catalyst for change in transforming your business or community organization. Learn more about the series.
JULY 19-23, 2023
All events are free
Click Here to Learn More: 2023 Lineup — Concert of Colors
The Concert of Colors is metro Detroit’s free annual diversity-themed music festival. Global music at its finest at this colorful, festive, upbeat coveted summer event. Concert of Colors has become the Midwest’s biggest diversity and arts festival.
The goal of the upbeat, week-long festival is to unite metro Detroit’s diverse communities and ethnic groups through music and dance from around the world – and creating dialogue where participants embrace freedom of expression.
Opening Night at the Concert of Colors – A FORUM ON COMMUNITY, CULTURE AND RACE: AIR, WATER, LAND & CLIMATE CHANGE
Wednesday, July 19, 2023, at 6:00-8:30 PM
Location: Arab American National Museum
Moderator: Hina Baloch
Hina Baloch is the executive director of climate change communications and strategy at General Motors.
Panelists:
Hadassah GreenSky – A Waganakising Odawa (Little Traverse Bay Bands) from Detroit, Michigan. She is an activist, community organizer, curator, cultural worker, indigenous futurist working as a visual artist, jazz singer, musician, dancer (both modern and powwow), bead artist, seamstress, graphic designer, photographer, videographer and model.
Bana Kabalan – An interdisciplinary Lebanese-American visual performative artist who is currently a PhD student in aquatic ecology.
Cherise Morris is an award-winning poet, multidisciplinary artist, ritualist and spiritual worker born and raised in rural Virginia.
Annabel Rabiyah is the cofounder of Awafi Kitchen, an Iraqi Jewish cultural food initiative. Through sharing recipes and making meals, Awafi pays tribute to a lesser-known culinary heritage.
Expressing our condolences on the recent passing of The Honorable Reverend JoAnn Watson, a former Detroit city councilwoman and celebrated civil rights activist who devoted her life to serving her community. She fought against racism and promoted social justice alongside many leading organizations, including her work as a former New Detroit board member. She was a warrior who spoke truth to power, authentically and uncompromisingly. She left an incredible legacy that will not be forgotten.
New Detroit was formed in response to civil unrest in 1967 that uncovered a host of entrenched social and community ills. At the request of then Michigan Governor George Romney and Detroit Mayor Jerome Cavanagh, business executive Joseph L. Hudson, Jr. convened a unique coalition—the nation’s first—to identify what went wrong in July 1967, what needed to change, and how to make that change happen.
Since then, New Detroit, Inc. has been a unique and valuable arena where leaders of Detroit’s business, civic, grassroots, and religious communities have come together to plan cooperative strategies and to demonstrate their commitment to the city and its environs.
On July 6, 2020, in response to the dual pandemic of COVID-19 and racial injustice (which had come to a head with the murder of George Floyd on May 25), standing alongside 30 of Detroit’s most prominent business, political and philanthropical leaders in front of the “United We Stand” sculpture at the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History, New Detroit declared War on Racism.
New Detroit will dismantle racism through systems change and by moving hearts and minds. We do this as an institutional thought leader, an advocate for policy change, and as a catalyst for collective action. Our work is organized around these three strategies, and includes trainings, education, research, advocacy, and partnerships to fight racism at the personal, institutional, and systemic levels.
New Detroit’s leaders and community members commemorate the organization’s history and talk about their roles and involvement in the racial justice work with the coalition throughout 5 decades. Recorded in 2017.
New Detroit has earned a Candid Platinum Seal of Transparency on GuideStar!
