Mayor Mary Sheffield, in partnership with Rx Kids, will join families, partners, and community leaders to celebrate the official launch of Rx Kids, the nation’s first-ever community-wide prenatal and infant cash prescription program in the City of Detroit. This Baby Love Launch Event marks a transformational moment for moms, babies, and the future of family wellbeing in Detroit. Beginning February 9, families who reside in the city of Detroit can enroll to receive a one-time $1,500 payment durin

Al Capone was the most dangerous man in America. And he was afraid of a gang from Detroit. They called them the Purple Gang. Two shopkeepers on Detroit's Lower East Side watched a group of immigrant kids terrorize their block. Stealing from pushcarts. Rolling drunks near Eastern Market. Shaking down the same merchants their parents worked alongside. "Those boys are rotten," one said. "Purple. Like the color of bad meat." The name stuck. Within a decade, those kids would become the most feared cr