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Jeremy Allen, Executive Editor

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Jeremy Allen oversees the editorial team at the Michigan Chronicle. To contact him for story ideas or partnership opportunities, send an email to jallen@michronicle.com.

Poll Shows Young Black Men Are Frustrated, Not Disengaged, from Politics

For years, Black men have been reduced to political talking points every election cycle. Democrats assume they’ll show up. Republicans believe they can pull them...

Jeremy Allen: Be On the Right Side of History

By Jeremy Allen, Executive Editor, Michigan Chronicle Black History Month is not a passive observance, not a marketing theme, not a calendar marker, or a...

Community Voices: Murder in America and the Need to Disagree Better

By Hon. Scott Benson, Detroit City Councilmember If the last couple of weeks has taught us anything it’s that we need to learn to disagree...

COMMENTARY: Trump Wrong to Federalize Policing in Washington, DC

By A. Scott Bolden, Contributor President Donald Trump sounded like a 19th-century European colonialist justifying the subjugation of “savage natives” in “darkest Africa” when he...

Harry Hairston Jr., Army veteran and lifelong public servant, dies at 95

Harry Hairston Jr., a Korean War veteran, longtime Pittsburgh resident, and proud patriarch of a family deeply rooted in service and storytelling, passed away...

Harry Hairston Jr., Army veteran and lifelong public servant, dies at 95

Harry Hairston Jr., a Korean War veteran, longtime Pittsburgh resident, and proud patriarch of a family deeply rooted in service and storytelling, passed away...

Memorial Foundation Awards Over $1 Million in HBCU Scholarships at Global Youth Conference in The Bahamas

More than $1 million in scholarships were awarded to high-achieving international students at the Fourth Annual Global Youth Leadership Conference (GYLC) in Nassau, The...

Michigan Chronicle Publisher Emeritus Sam Logan to receive Lifetime Achievement Award

The Society of Professional Journalists – Detroit Chapter will posthumously honor Mr. Sam Logan, the late publisher of the Michigan Chronicle, at its prestigious...

Black people and Cinco de Mayo 

Every year on May 5, Black people across the country come together to celebrate Cinco de Mayo with an enthusiasm that often catches outsiders...

Boys & Girls Club renames Highland Park location after Michigan Chronicle Publisher Hiram E. Jackson following $2M renovation

Photos by Monica Morgan As a teenager attending Detroit Country Day School, Hiram E. Jackson once got into a fight after another student disparagingly said...

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