Motown singer-turned-Detroit City Councilwoman tours a
Travel & Leisure writer around Motown.
Excerpt:
Can you imagine being a girl-group scholar and having the lead singer of
one of the most important groups in history elected to the city council
of a major American city on a platform with a wide tourism plank, and
being a writer for a travel magazine like the one you’re holding? Can
you guess where this is going? Armed with a picture of Reeves I took as
a teenager at the Garden with a primitive Instamatic, I went to Detroit
to consider her shot at turning a brave, if besieged, Midwestern city
into a
destination. As Detroit struggles with an estimated
$150 million budget shortfall, a homicide rate for the crime rolls, and
a hemorrhaging auto industry, Reeves largely proposes to do this by
leveraging the city’s musical heritage—meaning Motown, Aretha Franklin,
and more contemporary figures like Madonna and Eminem.
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