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What began as a platform to share my music and introduce people to my friends, mentors, and people of Detroit I think are cool is now a strong media platform. Today through video, social media, podcasting, and graphic design Detroit is Different has impacted the world. Dr’s have used Detroit is Different interviews as material supporting research, magazines in Italy have used Detroit is Different content in publication, but the coolest thing is people like you follow Detroit is Different.

Today I’m interviewed by my great friend Sterling Toles. We talk Detroit is Different and the vision of it all.

Khary Frazier is the founder of Detroit is Different. Passion for music and Detroit built the website. Today Frazier discusses the interviews, visions, and ideas for Detroit is Different. From the 2014 start with Malik Yakini (of Mollywop & D Town Farms) till the shot and unposted interviews with dozens of Detroiters adding to the culture of the Motor City. Khary talks podcasting, video, and creating content. As a website has become a podcast network and soon to be a web series production house Frazier balances it all while leading Creative Differences Marketing INC as well. Frazier also shares the ideas of how the Detroit is Different incubator is a place that includes the family institution with Walsh College planning.

Detroit is Different is a podcast hosted by Khary Frazier covering people adding to the culuture of an American Classic city. Visit www.detroitisdifferent.com to hear, see, and experience more of what makes Detroit different.

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Donnell White and I have one of the most in depth talks about the role of the NAACP today. This was a pivotal discussion about the relevance of an organization with roots in Black professionalism, Black politics, and the Black church. Today the success, relevance, and impact of all these institutions are questioned more and more. Donnell opens up about the functionality of the Detroit NAACP and seeing the organization beyond Rev. Wendell Anthony, Donnell White, or any personality alone.

Detroit is Different is a podcast hosted by Khary Frazier covering people adding to the culuture of an American Classic city. Visit www.detroitisdifferent.com to hear, see, and experience more of what makes Detroit different.

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Ralph Godbee and Kayla Godbee sat down and joined me for a candid discussion on family, opportunity, and decision making. The connection and bond between Father and Daughter is vivid in this interview. The vulnerability shown and respect earned from Parent to Child is humbling. Kayla shares what childhood and growing up learning from her Father. Ralph opens up about the role spirituality, faith, and planning have played in his life.

Detroit is Different is a podcast hosted by Khary Frazier covering people adding to the culuture of an American Classic city. Visit www.detroitisdifferent.com to hear, see, and experience more of what makes Detroit different.

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Mayowa Reynolds and Vicki Hooks Green are Master Teachers. Vicki Hooks Green is an English teacher that’s met, touched, and engaged hundreds of Cass Tech students for years. We discuss her maturation from Beauty Pageant contestant to Beauty Pageant developer. Miss Black Star was creation of Vicki’s passion that became a family institution. Mother, brother, sisters uncle, aunts, and everyone puts hands in for the success of Miss Black Star pageant. Which led to a transition to start at Marygrove College. There her sister Mayowa Reynolds joined her. Today Dr. Mayowa Reynolds is the principal of Detroit High School for the Fine & Performing Arts. Mayowa is many things but dance is her expressive art. Her passion pushed her as a student, Mother, Pastor, doctor, teacher, and now principal. This was a fruitful discussion about growth and students.

Detroit is Different is a podcast hosted by Khary Frazier covering people adding to the culuture of an American Classic city. Visit www.detroitisdifferent.com to hear, see, and experience more of what makes Detroit different.

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Eban Morales is a father advocating and working on behalf of other parents of Highland Park MI. Highland Park MI has been impacted in the most challenging ways in Post-Industrial America. The home of where the Model T Ford Assembly line ushered in the renaissance of Metro-Detroit & Michigan’s economic & social relevance internationally is experiencing a new day. Public systems attributed to common realities of water, fire, library, and schools have been diminished and/or non-existent. Eban is one of the citizens of Highland Park working to demand the representation with taxation. Eban’s work as an artist and love now for advocacy interplay with his open and optimistic vision for what can be. We discuss Highland Park past & present.

Detroit is Different is a podcast hosted by Khary Frazier covering people adding to the culuture of an American Classic city. Visit www.detroitisdifferent.com to hear, see, and experience more of what makes Detroit different.

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Donna Jackson has an eclectic spirit. The intelligence of an engineer, doctor, and theorist have culminated into a passion for expression through artistry. Planning and working on projects using graphics, paint, and curating the art of others has created platforms of success for Donna. We discuss how she moved from her Westside background to now welcoming international attention.

Detroit is Different is a podcast hosted by Khary Frazier covering people adding to the culuture of an American Classic city. Visit www.detroitisdifferent.com to hear, see, and experience more of what makes Detroit different.

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Unassuming and introverted is the natural disposition of a rising comedy star, Jeff Horste. Jeff was featured on Kevin Hart’s Comedy Central Hart of the City show in 2017 which led to his 30 minute Comedy Central special for Kevin Hart’s Next Level which will air Friday August 24 2018 at 11pm EST. Horste is one of the four Motor City Laugh Kings with Josh Adams, Darius Bennett, and Ron Taylor. His jokes on society, race, and America are cutting and thought provoking. The voice he’s found as a comedian proves that art and messages can be entertaining while enlightening. We discuss his past in Oak Park, love for teachers through his family, and time as a door to door salesman.

Detroit is Different is a podcast hosted by Khary Frazier covering people adding to the culuture of an American Classic city. Visit www.detroitisdifferent.com to hear, see, and experience more of what makes Detroit different.

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Charlie Beckham’s Detroit story runs deep. Engineering at General Motors when GM was the largest company in the world began Beckham’s professional journey. Soon he joined his older brother Bill Beckham and worked with the Coleman Young’s Mayoral administration. Ever since his start with Coleman Young Beckham has worked on behalf of the city. The understanding of people, systems, and himself has crystallized to a humble wisdom of today. This was a gem of an interview discussing basketball, Russell Woods, Cadillac car, and much more. Beckham is presenting a one-man show about his life at the Charles H Wright Museum of African American History Saturday, September 15, 2018, @ 8pm

Detroit is Different is a podcast hosted by Khary Frazier covering people adding to the culuture of an American Classic city. Visit www.detroitisdifferent.com to hear, see, and experience more of what makes Detroit different.

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Eric Campbell is a Father who’s creating art he’s passionate about to inspire himself, his children, and his elders. Riverwise Magazine is part of the legacy of Grace Lee Boggs and carries the mission of social justice she executed her whole life. Campbell is the editor and a writer finding community voices to collaborate in giving their expression of what’s happening in Detroit. Campbell wrote a series of political, business, and community work for the Michigan Citizen Newspaper (Shout Out to the legacy of Charles Kelly and my big homie Mrs. T Teresa Kelly). Giving a soundboard for neighborhood work is the intentionality of Riverwise, and for years now it’s creative mission has provided a platform for many (I was featured as a Riverwise writer). In this interview, we discuss music, Detroit attitude, and more.

Detroit is Different is a podcast hosted by Khary Frazier covering people adding to the culuture of an American Classic city. Visit www.detroitisdifferent.com to hear, see, and experience more of what makes Detroit different.

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Fluent like many of my guests I’ve known for years but through our interview now have a much more in-depth perspective of who he is. He was one of the youngest people to make his way to Café Mahogany when Zana (of Spectacles Boutique) provided him the opportunity to host. The techniques of shaping expression from hip-hop to poetry were laid and followed from Khary Kimani Turner (my name brother I just featured). Fluent’s work is experiential. The experience you get in Detroit. His eclectic blends of Dexter bus rides (shout out the 16!) with Detroit’s most exclusive art scene is his plot to place characters exploring Detroit.

In our interview, we discuss his upcoming show ‘Please, Her, Please Him.’ Honoring romance.

A few common definitions of the word PLEASE: 1. Cause to feel happy and satisfied. 2. Take only one's own wishes into consideration in deciding how to act or proceed. 3. To afford or give pleasure or satisfaction

Saturday, July 28, 2018, at 9 pm at the N'Namdi Center for Contemporary Art 52 E Forest Ave, Detroit, MI 48201

Detroit is Different is a podcast hosted by Khary Frazier covering people adding to the culuture of an American Classic city. Visit www.detroitisdifferent.com to hear, see, and experience more of what makes Detroit different.

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