It’s been almost four decades since Motown records moved it’s studios to Los Angeles. Years later, the auto industry began it’s sharp decline. All this left the once vibrant NW Goldberg neighborhood, also known as Zone 8, in disrepair. Today, people like Yusef Shakur are taking action to pick the community back out of the […]
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Yusef Shakur is a community organizer and co-founder of The Urban Network, a bookstore and resource center located in his home neighborhood. At 13, he co-founded what would become one of Detroit's most notorious street gangs, Zone 8. Shakur spent nine years of his youth behind bars, and emerged determined to "put the 'neighbor' back into the 'hood'"". Now he is a community organizer