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Detroit's chief storyteller says it's time to talk to about neighborhoods that persevered

by Kai Ryssdal and Paulina Velasco

Jul 24, 2017

Aaron Foley says there are "680,000 stories waiting to be told. Not all of them come from downtown."

Aaron Foley says he heard about the Detroit race riots at home, and “hardly anybody wanted to really go in depth and talk about.” Above, a group of men in Detroit construct a barricade to keep their street safe during the 1967 riots.

Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images

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