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…As black flight from Detroit mirrors the inverse trend begun a half-century prior, a small influx of white, sometimes Jewish, young people are swimming against the current and returning for an urban experience. By Zak Rosen o-Anne Katz was just 5 years old when her parents moved the family from Northwest Detroit to Southfield. The year was 1959, nearly a decade before the city became a tinderbox of racial unrest but nearly a decade after its...…
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