Author Tiya Miles has compiled documentation that does for Detroit what the Works Progress Administration and the Federal Writers’ Project slave narratives did for the South.

Juliese Padgett, now 12, wrote ‘The Newest Flower’ when she was just 7.

The author found that Twitter knew things long before traditional media did.

His mid-century New York years are explored in a recent exhibition and a new book that editor, advocate and friend Betsy Evans Hunt hopes will ‘elevate Webb’s work into the pantheon where it belongs.’