Saturday, November 21, 2009
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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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
Suspect in slaying also accused in shooting
Detroit -- According to police accounts, not only does Eiland Johnson not know how to behave at a nightclub, he doesn't know how to dress for one either. - 11/14/2009
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
Art imitates life: Kilpatrick friend plays mayor in film
Available soon in a car trunk near you: Kwame Kilpatrick, the movie. "Scandal in the City" is a feature-length movie chronicling the low life and hard times of fictitious Mayor Calvin Kennedy, a charismatic politician who is consumed and ultimately destroyed by his ambitions and sexual appetites. - 10/29/2009
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
Travels with Charlie: Time running out on 'minute hotel'
Cass Corridor isn't what it used to be
Located in the middle of the Cass Corridor, the Temple is one of corridor's last "minute hotels," where rooms are let by the hour. And after visiting on a late Friday evening, it is safe to surmise that the only virgin in the Temple Hotel is the icon of the Virgin Mary hanging near the desk of the maitre d' -- Robert Rayis. - 10/15/2009
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
Nature takes root as Detroit landmark rots
A poplar tree stands atop the historic Lafayette Building in the heart of Detroit. Her crown reaches 20 feet above the terra cotta cornice, her roots puncturing deep into the roof. Her leaves are yellowing and crisp. They sing a forlorn little tune. - 10/01/2009
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.
