VOD NEEDS DONATIONS NOW–LINKS IN STORIES
VOD WELCOMES NEW SUBMISSIONS!
If you want to be published on VOD, please submit your articles, etc. to diane_bukowski@hotmail.com. Call 313-825-6126 to alert us.-
Recent Posts
- DAVID CARTER: PIANIST, TEACHER, SOCIAL WORKER; MEMORIAL & CELEBRATION OF LIFE FRI. SEPT. 25, 2026
- WAYNE CO. PROS. WORTHY, MI AG NESSEL REFUSE TO RELEASE JACKSON-BOLANOS DESPITE JURY ACQUITTAL
- VOD NEEDS HELP NOW! KEEP HARD-HITTING STORIES ON UNJUST CONVICTIONS OF LOVED ONES, CLIENTS GOING
- PRISON WALLS TO COMMUNITY IMPACT: MICH. PRISONERS RAISE FUNDS TO SUPPORT CHILDREN IN FOSTER CARE
- ANTON BLEVINS FIGHTS FALSE CONVICTION OF 2011 WSU FOOTBALL PLAYER MURDER, CITES DPD, WCPO COVER-UP
- MI COURT OF APPEALS GOES ROGUE ON DEGRAFFINRIED: IMPUGNS BLACK TRIAL JUDGE, CATERS TO PROSECUTOR
- STEVEN WILLIAMS FIGHTS CONVICTION OF 1995 MURDER AT BLUE NOTE LOUNGE, DUE TO WITNESS MISIDENTIFICATION
- FULL PARDON FOR WRONGFULLY CONVICTED CARL HUBBARD! SIGN MACARTHUR JUSTICE CTR. PETITION
- CELEBRATE LIFE OF ESSIE MAE HENDERSON, WARRIOR VS. MASS INCARCERATION, MEMBER CRIME LAB TASK FORCE
- IMMEDIATE HOSPITALIZATION, MEDICAL RELEASE FOR CRITICALLY ILL MICHIGAN PRISONER KRYSTAL CLARK
- 4 WOMEN DEAD IN 2 MONTHS AT WOMEN’S HURON VALLEY–SHUT IT DOWN! FREEDOM RALLY JULY 4, 2026 11AM – 3PM
- FREE KEVIN SYKES! INNOCENT OF SHOOTING COP VICKI YOST–HE WAS IN W. VA., REAL SHOOTER CONFESSED
- WHITMER, NESSEL, WORTHY TERRORIZE WOMEN AT HURON ‘VALLEY OF DEATH,’ EXONEREES, WRONGFULLY CONVICTED
- FAMILIES PROTEST DEATHS OF TWO MORE AT WOMEN’S HURON VALLEY; WHITMER, NESSEL TURN BLIND EYE
- BLACK FAMILY WINS LAWSUIT VS. NEIGHBOR WITH KKK FLAG; KYM WORTHY REFUSED CRIMINAL CHARGES
- SUPPORT THELONIOUS ‘SHAWN’ SEARCY, EXONERATED IN 2022, BACK IN COURT ON BOGUS APPEAL MAY 11, 12, 13, 14
- FREE EFREN PAREDES–AMNESTY INT.L CAMPAIGN TO URGE MICH. GOV. GRETCHEN WHITMER TO GRANT CLEMENCY
- C.O.A. UPHOLDS DISMISSAL OF CHARGES v. EWING & SEARCY; CROWD OF SUPPORTERS PACKED HEARING
- SUPPORT DARRELL EWING, DERRICO SEARCY, AT COA HEARING MARCH 10 RE: 2024 DISMISSAL OF CHARGES
- 50 YEARS OF MASS INCARCERATION NOW COST U.S., STATES, PRISONERS & FAMILIES $445 BILLION/YR.
- DEATH OF IMAM JAMIL AL-AMIN/H.RAP BROWN REIGNITES DEMANDS FOR JUSTICE, RECOGNITION OF HIS HEROIC LIFE
- SENTINEL REPORT: KYM WORTHY, CIU’s, DPD, SADO LEAVE MASSES OF WRONGLY CONVICTED TO ROT AND DIE IN MDOC
- FREE WRONGLY CONVICTED LIFER DAVID MCKINNEY, CHARGE INKSTER COPS ANTHONY DELGRECO, OTHERS
- LET OUR BROTHERS GO! RICKY RIMMER, GREGORY ALLEN, DESHON STOKES! SAT. OCT. 11 @12 NOON MLK JR. HIGH
- WRONGLY CONVICTED, MICHEAL ‘MIKE D’ DEGRAFFINRIED FREED AFTER 26 YRS; NEW TRIAL HEARINGS OCT. 9, NOV. 11
Monthly Archives
Links
- Al Jazeera news
- All of Us Or None, prisoners and former prisoners
- All-African People's Revolutionary Party
- American Tribune, the prison experience
- Black Agenda Report
- Black is Back Coalition
- Black List
- Block Report Radio
- Color Lines
- DBA Press
- Defend Freedom of the Press
- Detroit Parents with Special Ed Students
- Free Mumia Abu Jamal
- Free Mumia Abu Jamal news
- Gray Zone
- Hood Research
- Jamahiriya News Agency–Free Libya
- Kenny Snodgrass: You Tube
- Labor Notes
- Libya 360
- Mac Speaking: Leona McElvene YouTube site
- Maryanne Godboldo
- MI Emergency Ctte. v War & Injustice
- Michigan Welfare Rights Organization
- Monthly Review Online
- Nadir's Detroit music scene
- Photography is Not a Crime
- Press TV world news
- Prison Legal News
- Project B.A.I.T.
- Real News Network
- Russia Today
- San Francisco Bay View newspaper
- SCG News: World News, Politics and Analysis
- THE GRAYZONE
- We the People of Detroit
- Wikileaks
Category Archives: Uncategorized
BLACKANAW ISLAND 2016; SAT. JUNE 4, SUN. JUNE 5: MICHAEL IMHOTEP SPEAKS
Download flier at http://voiceofdetroit.net/wp-content/uploads/Blackinaw-Island-flier.pdf
Posted in Uncategorized
Leave a comment
STOP TORTURING MICHIGAN’S JUVENILE LIFERS WITH STATE DELAYS! FREEDOM NOW!
Youtube Video above, published on Apr 26, 2016, produced for V.O.T.E by Alex Chemerinsky, Mariah Branyan State juvenile lifers who waited decades for USSC to declare JLWOP unconstitutional subjected to further anguish as state stalls release Of 364 cases, 8 … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged #Beatbackthebullies, #Blackkidslivesmatter, #blacklivesmatter, #blacklivesmatterDetroit, #Breakdownthewalls, #ENDMassIncarceration, #FreeMichiganJuvenileLifersNOW, #Michissippigoddam, #PrisonNation, #saveourchildren, #SchooltoPrisonPipeline, #StandUpNow, #StopWaronBlackAmerica, #StopWaronourYouth
2 Comments
US SUPREME COURT NIXES DEATH PENALTY FROM ALL-WHITE JURY
Video above shows Edward Hood, one of four Black jurors excluded from Timothy Tyrone Foster’s jury through “peremptory” challenges. The Supreme Court did not rule on the lack of Black jurors on the original jury venire, a problem that has … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Leave a comment
SANDERS PUSHES DEMS TO REJECT PUERTO RICO DEBT DEAL, ENGINEERED BY BANKS WHICH DESTROYED DETROIT
Breaks with Pres. Obama Puerto Rico subjected to situation similar to Detroit bankruptcy deal, which stole city’s assets, impoverished retirees, continued state control By Seung Min Kim May 23, 2016 Bernie Sanders is pushing fellow Senate Democrats to reject the … Continue reading
FREE CHARLES LEWIS, INNOCENT JUVENILE LIFER WHO HAS SPENT 41 YEARS IN STATE PRISONS
Hearing in case in front of Judge Qiana Lillard set for May 26, 2016, 9 am Lewis has long fought for his freedom, claiming actual innocence and citing recent USSC court decisions in Miller v. Alabama, Montgomery v. Louisiana ‘Pure … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged #Beatbackthebullies, #Blackkidslivesmatter, #blacklivesmatter, #blacklivesmatterDetroit, #Breakdownthewalls, #FREECHARLESLEWISNOW, #MassIncarceration, #Michissippigoddam, #PrisonNation, #saveourchildren, #SchooltoPrisonPipeline, #StandUpNow, #StopJLWOP, #StopWaronBlackAmerica, #StopWaronourYouth
4 Comments
MICHIGAN JUVENILE LIFERS SCORE 6TH CIRCUIT APPEALS COURT VICTORY IN HILL V. SNYDER
In Hill v. Snyder, 6th Circuit rejects state statutes, calls for “meaningful and realistic opportunity for release” for all state juvenile lifers Michigan officials including AG Bill Schuette, Wayne Co. Prosecutor Kym Worthy have opposed ANY relief for children sent to … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged #Beatbackthebullies, #Blackkidslivesmatter, #blacklivesmatter, #blacklivesmatterDetroit, #Breakdownthewalls, #MassIncarceration, #Michissippigoddam, #PrisonNation, #saveourchildren, #SchooltoPrisonPipeline, #StandUpNow, #StopJWLOP, #StopWaronBlackAmerica, #StopWaronourYouth
Leave a comment
VENEZUELA PRES. MADURO DECLARES EMERGENCY, BRAZIL PRES. ROUSSEF OUT IN ‘COUP;’ U.S. ACCUSED
Both Maduro, Roussef champions of poor, workers, opponents of U.S. policies U.S., global banks, oil corporations, others behind attacks Editor: While the people of the U.S. are blindly involved in national elections, NO candidate offers a platform that would withdraw U.S. troops and U.S. … Continue reading
GENOCIDAL SNYDER/RHODES PLAN HARMS DETROIT PUBLIC SCHOOL CHILDREN, WORKERS, RESIDENTS
Teachers shut DPS May 2, 3 not only over pay threats, but dismantling of nation’s largest majority-Black school district Race a central issue—DFT President Ivy Bailey “Rise up to defend jobs, schools, children, strike to win”—Former DFT pres. Steve Conn … Continue reading
HEARING ON DISABLED, ABUSED CHILD MAY 2; WHY DOES JUDGE MARTHA SNOW ENDANGER JANNA, JAIL MOM?
Editorial/interview by VOD Staff Writer Cornell Squires, co-authored by investigative journalist David Schied May 1, 2016 As I write what is found below, I am reminded of the interview I had several weeks ago in the living room of Jann … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
21 Comments
WHY IS JUVENILE LIFER CHARLES LEWIS STILL IN PRISON, 16 YRS. AFTER HIS CASE WAS DISMISSED?
Judge Qiana Lillard acknowledges court order dismissing case at hearing April 21, 2016, takes no action Lewis’ state court files, filling three cartons, have mysteriously “disappeared,” next hearing to feature last known official in possession Lewis is one of state’s … Continue reading