Dancing in the street: Martha Reeves says the Motown spirit is needed in Detroit once again | Benjamin Ferguson

The city's financial problems are no secret. But the former Martha and the Vandellas singer thinks Detroit needs to look to the spirit of 60s music to revive itselfA glut of fatalist headlines and documentaries have recently given outsiders the impression that Detroit is a city with no money and even less hope. The statistics seem to give credence to this notion. Its unemployment rate, at around 30%, is higher than anywhere else in America, and crime, while on the decrease since 2000, still make...

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