She's Changing Detroit From The Inside: Meet "The Hope On Heyden"
On the Northwest side of Detroit, just east of Brightmoor, is Heyden Street. A tidy, fresh looking blue house on the street looks out of place in the mostly blighted neighborhood. It belongs to Lola Charles, who would probably tell you that her house looks the way it ought to. Charles runs a block club, called Hope on Heyden, and it is a great example of the essential and heroic efforts being made to stabilize neighborhoods by Detroit’s residents. I sat down with Lola and her daughter Savann...