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Book on
Former
Mayor
Coleman
Young on
bookshelves
now
By Ken
Coleman/Special
to Tell
Us
Detroit
DETROIT
(Tell Us
Det) -
Coleman
A.
Young,
Detroit's
first
African
American
mayor,
would
have
turned
98 years
old on
Tuesday,
May 24.
Detroit-based
author
and
historian
Ken
Coleman
announces
that he
is
carrying
out an
important
three-part
project.
First,
he is
releasing
his
fourth
book,
Forever
Young:
The
Coleman
Reader.
It is
believed
to be
the
first
book
about
the
city’s
66th
mayor in
a
generation.
Second,
Coleman
will
launch
this
summer
an oral
history
project
to
record
people
who knew
and
worked
with
Coleman
Young.
The
recordings
will
become
part of
a
documentary
to be
released
in time
for the
centennial
of
Young’s
birth in
May
2018.
Third,
Coleman
is
identifying
curriculum
professionals
who will
assist
him in
creating
lesson
plans
for
elementary
and
middle
school
students.
Forever
Young:
The
Coleman
Reader
will be
released
as an
eBook on
May 24
on
Amazon
and
Smashwords
and as a
limited
edition
traditional
book on
June 4.
It will
be sold
at
Eric’s
I’ve
Been
Framed
Shop,
located
at 16527
Livernois
in
Detroit.
Call the
store at
313-861-9263.
Ken
Coleman,
former
senior
editor
at the
Michigan
Chronicle
and
press
secretary
for U.S.
Reps.
Gary
Peters
and
Brenda
Lawrence
of
Michigan,
has
written
and
published
three
books:
• On
This
Day:
African-American
Life in
Detroit
•
Million
Dollars
Worth of
Nerve:
Twenty-one
People
Who
Helped
to Power
Black
Bottom,
Paradise
Valley
and
Detroit’s
Lower
East
Side
• Soul
on Air:
Blacks
Who
Helped
to
Define
Radio in
Detroit
He
offers a
weekly
history
segment
on
Detroit
Public
Television’s
American
Black
Journal.
It airs
each
Sunday
at 9:30
a.m.
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