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Former Detroit police chief Ike McKinnon (L), Motown musician David Coffey (center), and former Detroit Mayor Dennis Archer (R).

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'Going There': 3 Prominent Detroit Natives Reflect On The 1967 Riot

8:32pm July 23, 2017

In 1967, more than 150 riots erupted across the country. But one in particular seemed to consume the national conversation: Detroit. Three prominent Detroit figures share their stories from that time.

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Norman Lippitt puts his feet up in his Birmingham, Mich., office.

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Defense Attorney For Police In 'Algiers Motel Shooting': 'Am I A Soulless Person?'

8:24pm July 23, 2017

by Matthew S. Schwartz

Norman Lippitt defended Detroit police officers after the 1967 death of three black men, in what's known as the Algiers Motel shooting. NPR's Michel Martin discusses the case with Lippitt.

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Detroit resident Teresa Moore, who has lived in the city's 8 Mile Road neighborhood for 59 years, stands in front of what she calls a "segregation wall."

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In Detroit, A Colorful Mural Stands As A Reminder Of The City's 'Segregation Wall'

5:43pm July 22, 2017

by Matthew S. Schwartz

Detroit's Birwood Wall is now decorated with murals — children playing, Detroit Tigers, people of all races living in harmony. But when this wall was built in the 1940s, integration was not the goal.

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Detroit Postcard: Empty Promises Post Rebellion

5:27pm July 22, 2017

by April Van Buren

Pat Watts of Detroit was 16 years old during the uprising of 1967. She reflects on the fears she felt at that time. What started as a rebellion for equality became unfulfilled promises by leaders.

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Before 'The Blind Pig' Raid, What Sparked The Detroit Uprising

5:27pm July 22, 2017

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Congressman John Conyers Jr. about his role in the 1967 Detroit Uprising, and what its legacy on the city is today.

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Barbershop: The Ghosts Of Detroit's Past

5:27pm July 22, 2017

Journalists Lester Graham and Rochelle Riley, along with Detroit's chief storyteller Aaron Foley, join host Michel Martin to break down the story of Detroit's renewal, decades after the 1967 uprising.

Bigelow's new film, Detroit, depicts the beginning of the Detroit riots and one of their most horrifying events.

Kathryn Bigelow's 'Detroit' Revisits An American Tragedy: The Algiers Motel Incident

5:27pm July 22, 2017

by Michel Martin

During the Detroit riots, three young black men were killed by white police officers at the Algiers Motel. The year was 1967, but Bigelow says, "It feels very much like it's today."

John McCain's 2008 Concession Speech

8:08am July 22, 2017

After John McCain's cancer was announced, many people heaped praise on the senator. McCain gave a moving concession speech the night he lost the presidency to Barack Obama in 2008.

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50 Years Ago, Small Wisconsin Town Made Plans To Secede From The State

4:27pm July 21, 2017

Fifty years ago, the town of Winneconne, Wis., made short-lived plans to secede from the state. In 1967, as a result of the town name being inadvertently left off the official Wisconsin road map, a secret committee formulated a plan to set up toll gates on local roads, began annexation of nearby communities to form a Sovereign State of Winneconne.

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Soviet Communist Party leader Leonid Brezhnev and U.S. President Richard Nixon walk around the grounds of Brezhnev's country home by the Black Sea in Yalta, Russia, in June 1974. Nixon had some meetings with Brezhnev without a U.S. interpreter, a practice

Trump's Recently Disclosed Putin Conversation Is 'Nixon All Over Again'

2:46pm July 21, 2017

by Scott Neuman

Two interpreters who served a number of U.S. presidents say a secrecy-obsessed Richard Nixon was the only recent president to routinely dispense with interpreters.