Thursday, March 20, 2025 | 6:00pm - 7:30pm
Rod Arroyo, MA, FAICP - City Planner, Photographer and Adjunct Professor-WSU
Rod Arroyo is a city planner and photographer researching historical jazz clubs and Black-owned businesses in Detroit's Paradise Valley and Black Bottom neighborhoods. Rod will share photographs, maps and stories describing and illustrating the monumental changes in this part of Detroit. From a thriving area with over 40 jazz clubs and hundreds of Black-owned businesses to an area decimated by freeway construction and urban renewal, there is much to learn from these neighborhoods, rich in history and culture.
Location:
Birmingham Next