"We call it 'spreading the Detroit love,' and that means to help your brother, to help your sister, to help your community," George said. George is one of 100 Detroiters featured in British artist Marcus Lyon's latest project, i.Detroit: A Human Atlas of an American City, which profiles some of the city's most influential social change agents. Mark Davidoff, a Detroit businessman, met Lyon in 2017 and got a copy of his human atlas of Brazil, "Somos Brasil" (We Are Brazil). "The book about Brazil landed on the desk of Rip Rapson of Kresge Foundation in Detroit," Lyon said. Detroit Blight Busters has about 7,000 community volunteers who have helped complete cleanup, demolition and renovation projects across Detroit.

Source: CNN November 15, 2020 09:11 UTC