NATURAL GLORY: African-American women find beauty and business in the natural coils of their hair

It’s not that black women aren’t straightening their hair — most still do. But a growing number of women of all ages are finding beauty, acceptance, liberation and business opportunities in wearing natural hairstyles like braids, locks, twists, knots, afros and various creations in-between.

A Detroit community remembers Civil Rights Activist Viola Liuzzo by connecting the community through a park

The Civil Rights activist Viola Liuzzo was murdered in Selma, Alabama, after marching with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. for the rights of African-Americans to vote. A Detroit park, in the neighborhood she raised a family, is being transformed in her memory to strengthen a community.

Freep Film Festival highlights life in Detroit featuring documentaries

Watch some of the best moments from the 2015 Freep Film Festival in Detroit. Learn how to jit, listen to a Detroit choir sing and laugh with "Funny or Die" creators.

ALS: Living with your own Mortality

Ed Tessaro and Ed Harada open up about their life after being diagnosed with Lou Gehrig's disease three to four years ago. Harada, a devout catholic, and Tessaro chose to be apart of a stem cell clinical trial that injects half a million stem cells into areas of the spinal cord. The trial is for safety purposes for now, but has seen some remarkable results from the stem cell injections.

One Piano, Two Broken Dreams

Margaret Terry Glover and her brother John Glover grew up in Detroit, playing music with a blind neighborhood kid who would become a Motown legend. Forever linked, the Glovers still live in the same house Stevie Wonder learned how to play the piano.