Tuesday, February 09, 2010
Metro Reporter
Pulitzer Prize winner Charlie LeDuff is a former national correspondent for The New York Times and currently writes for the projects team and metro reporting desk at The News.
LeDuff was a contributor to the 2001 Times series "How Race is Lived in America" that won the Pulitzer for national reporting. He also has been honored by Columbia University for distinguished writing about New York City. LeDuff, who left the Times in 2007, has written several books and was a contributor to several TV programs.
His career includes stints as a reporter for the Alaska Fisherman's Journal, as a teacher at a middle school for troubled children and as a gang counselor. An advocate of participatory journalism, LeDuff has worked as a carpenter in Michigan, a cannery hand in Alaska and a baker in Denmark. He also has covered the war in Iraq, crossed d the border with Mexican migrants, and chronicled a Brooklyn fire house in the aftermath of the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks.
LeDuff is a graduate of the University of Michigan and Livonia Churchill High School. He is also a member of the Sault Ste. Marie Chippewa tribe of Michigan. He can be reached at cleduff@detnews.com .
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- Detroit 2009, The Movie
- The Riddler: A year of Sam Riddle
- Reenactment of scene from 'The Scandal in the City'
- Art Blackwell II, Highland Park's favorite son, talks about the charges against him
- Lawyer Michael Stefani denies leaking texts on September 18, 2008
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Living in the D: A Weblog
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Travels with Charlie
Mongo says Kilpatrick's legacy pushes him to D.C.
Hard-charging adviser wants to leave 'minor leagues'
Adolph Mongo -- the hard-charging, hard-drinking political consultant -- was taking lunch the other afternoon at Roma Cafe, the power players' joint in the Eastern Market. - 02/04/2010
Travels with Charlie
Belle Isle a neglected gem waiting for political will
Whenever I feel troubled or penned-in, one of my favorite places is Belle Isle, where I can sit on the bank of the river and let my mind run. But when I went to Belle the other morning, I got a clear and unobstructed view of an island plagued by neglect. - 01/28/2010
Charlie LeDuff: Travels with Charlie
Charming 'prince' eludes Mich. police
Josef Franz Prach von Habsburg-Lothringen, the Prince of Austria, circulates in high society. He has been known to take meals with a retinue of body guards, prance about in a cape and he lives in a chic loft in Manhattan. - 01/25/2010
St. Clair Shores man deported over 10-year-old pot charges
Stupidity is not a crime. But stupidity is a deportable offense. Case in point: Charlie Castillo was born in Canada, the son of Maltese immigrants. The family came to Detroit when he was 1 year old and since then Castillo has spent his entire life in the metro area. - 01/14/2010
When racism still ruled
Trip to St. Louis in 1952 a lesson in racism and manhood
Detroit -- We learned this year that our children cannot do simple addition. We learned that our politicians cannot do simple addition. We learned that our automotive executives cannot do simple addition. - 12/31/2009
Charlie LeDuff on Detroit
Local family stands together, with room for one more
Andrea: you can come home now. No one is angry anymore. Your family has been put back together. Your mother has three of your children, the pastor and his wife have another. - 12/25/2009
Travels with Charlie
Commentary: Riddle's stream of hot air stifled by arrest
Sam Riddle crumbles under the weight of being Sam Riddle. And suddenly he's not so entertaining anymore. - 12/24/2009
Grandmother lays shooting victim to rest with donors' help
Detroit -- As the bell peeled 12 from the belfry of the Sacred Heart of Mary Catholic Church on Tuesday, little Martha Ann Barnett was finally laid to rest. - 12/09/2009
Detroit woman seeks resting place for grandchild's ashes
Detroit -- The old woman called in need of help. Her voice was tinny and sad. "I need a few hundred dollars," she asked meekly. - 12/03/2009
UPDATED at 5:10 p.m.
For detective, Tamara Greene a girl caught in 'dope beef'
It was a cold and wet evening back in the spring when the lawyer representing the family of Tamara Greene, the stripper at the center of the fabled wild Manoogian Mansion party hosted by then-Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick, and the retired Detroit homicide detective who was the last man in charge of the case met at a bar in Ferndale. The detective wanted to pass on some information to the lawyer -- you're chasing the wrong dog. - 11/19/2009
Travels with Charlie | With video
Slaying of murder witness in Detroit leaves trail of fear
The August murder of Anthony Alls, a witness to the killing of a friend at a Southfield nightclub, on the surface was just another random killing in Detroit. Just another murder until you look beneath the sheet of the Alls case. Confronted with the details, one sees the pillars of the criminal justice system buckling; the cracks and crevices increasingly filled by organized criminals who walk the streets with impunity. - 11/13/2009
Travels with Charlie
Just like dad, Blackwell lives with controversy
Arthur Blackwell II, the former emergency financial manager of Highland Park, stood accused of embezzlement this month in a courtroom in a building that bears his father's name: the Robert B. Blackwell Municipal Building. - 10/22/2009
Patron Saint of Lower Woodward
Guard watches over Detroit's grand past to ease broken heart
George Batsikouras became a ghost in order to escape one. He owns a house in Warren but he rarely stays there. In the Warren house, there are too many memories of a woman he once and still loves. - 10/08/2009
Travels with Charlie
Ex-death camp guard avoids deportation
Johann Leprich, a Nazi death camp guard at the notorious Mauthausen Concentration Camp in Austria where 120,000 people were murdered during World War II, keeps a nice yard. - 09/03/2009
Tackling a political Riddle: Has the outspoken adviser met his match in the FBI?
Clinton Township man dreams of creating flying machine
Jack Kevorkian, the euthanasia enthusiast, is a man of little appetite or need. He lives alone, disavows God and subsists on less than 500 calories a day. Reducing his footprint further still, Dr. Death has gone green, having recently purchased an electric car.
