Norton MacAlister Family Blog

The story : Its BACK!  Detroit Paradise Valley /  Harmonie Park  hopes to be a scene that started up again in the 1960s   Meanwhile it has gotten  completely restored down to the cobblestone in 2019 after being destroyed by the blight busting urban renewal movement of the 1960s  The 5 minute podcast is here :  https://wdet.org/posts/2015/10/19/81771-curiosid-how-a-1900s-black-detroit-community-was-razed-for-a-freeway/       You need to see the EARLY Black & White Photos here   https://www.blackbottomstreetview.com/ PHOTOCREDIT  J C  Amazing Photo of  January 2021 snowstorm in Detroit of  THE BELT   The BELT is an art alley steps away from  old black area of  Harmonie Park - a musical street mainly Randolph and a theatre street (mainly Broadway)  Imagine black people taking a break between sets on Randolph . There was a thriving musical scene here from the 1870s to the 1970s...

 

5 minute Read Detroit Free Press  <  open to read  You can skate to Gospel  or show off to  hip hop like Bow Wow in the movie Roll Bounce .  Click on the link ABOVE for the full story on a black tradition in Detroit  Yes Bow Wow has skated in the D even though the movie was based in LA   here is a clip   https://youtu.be/GB_lCL05KnI

 Check out this preview video on the Dequindre Cut Walk   This was one of the activities you voted for on the survey that got a high number of votes