By Melanie D. Scott, Detroit Free Press Jan. 13--"No one is talking to the black woman about her skin," says Dr. Arletha Anderson. "No one is talking to women who look like me." To change that, the MD is offering NuU Skin Care, which celebrated its grand opening Jan. 5.

By Melanie D. Scott, Detroit Free Press Feb. 18--Painter Jean-Michel Basquiat, soul singer Otis Redding, poet Langston Hughes and the first African-American millionaire, Madam C.J. Walker, were among the inspirations for five Southfield-Lathrup High School students vying for a $1,000 scholarship.

By Marty Hair, Detroit Free Press Mar. 24--People who gather for the party honoring the fifth anniversary of the Lathrup Village Children's Garden on March 31 will be singing a different tune. It's called "Flying by the Seed of My Plants," and it's the children's garden new theme song.