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Wednesday, April 25, 2012

'Brewster Douglass, You're My Brother'

The iconic towers of Detroit's former Brewster-Douglass housing projects were officially closed several years ago, but the buildings are far from empty. A community of people still lives in the development, and new film is bringing to light both their untold stories and the housing projects' fraught history.

"Brewster Douglass, You're My Brother," a 27-minute documentary by filmmaker Oren Goldenberg and journalist Paul Abowd, will premiere Thursday night the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History.

"The way the windows were removed [from the buildings] really created this opening for all this history about the area to flood out," explained Goldenberg.

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