Nolan Finley of The Detroit News addresses a touchy issue that's a byproduct of the recent resurgence of downtown Detroit -- the racial gap between the central business district and Midtown and the rest of Detroit.

"The divide around here once was between Detroit and the suburbs. Now, in the words of race warrior Shirley Stancato, it’s becoming between 'downtown and those other people.'”



Shirley Stancato is president and CEO of New Detroit.

Stancato runs New Detroit, the nonprofit that has worked to improve race relations since after the 1967 riot.

The other people she is talking about live in Detroit’s rapidly disintegrating neighborhoods, Finley writes. They’re largely African-American, and a high percentage are poor. Downtown, meanwhile, is a magnet for creative and upwardly mobile young people of both races, but theNinkasi Brewing Earns Gold at GABF

Press Release

Oct. 17, 2013 at 6:13 PM

EUGENE, OR. — Last week, Denver, Colorado hosted the 2013 Great American Beer Festival (GABF), an annual, three-day beer festival and one of the most coveted beer competitions in the brewing industry. Presented by the Brewers Association, GABF is the largest national beer competition that recognizes the most outstanding beers produced in the nation.

In an award ceremony held on Oct. 13 at the Colorado Convention Center in Denver, the top three winners in the competition’s 84 beer-style categories were announced. Jamie Floyd, Ninkasi’s founding brewer and co-owner, and other Ninkasi team members excitedly accepted an award on-stage as the brewery was presented with a gold medal in the Bohemian-Style Pilsener beer-style category for its Bohemian Pilsner. In