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Aaron Foley

@aaronkfoley

9 months

Deadline Hollywood

@DEADLINE

1 year

Amazon Developing ‘Boys Come First’ Series Based On Aaron Foley’s Debut Novel; Chuck Hayward To Pen The Pilot, Serve As Showrunner

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Aaron Foley

@aaronkfoley

3 years

A person from Michigan telling you where they’re from

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6 years

How people from Royal Oak dress to shop at Eastern Market

E! News

@enews

6 years

Who turned the temperature hotter? @NickJonas on the #GRAMMYs red carpet.

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4 months

Thought this was Joumana

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christina aguilera i’m on my knees

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Aaron Foley

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2 years

Diana Ross has a Grammy nomination which is a good time to remind that she's the only top-shelf Motown artist without one and the only of her living female peers period to not have won one.

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Aaron Foley

@aaronkfoley

6 years

If you encounter a homeless person, you can actually call the number here and a van will pick them up.

The Neighborhoods

@StoriesFromDet

6 years

. @CityofDetroit has three warming centers open for homeless in cold-weather months. More here:

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Aaron Foley

@aaronkfoley

3 years

Actually this is the most influential woman in Detroit

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Aaron Foley

@aaronkfoley

4 years

Some profersonal news: I’m (eventually) moving to NYC to join the staff of @newmarkjschool as Black Media Initiative Director, a new role to help Black press outlets nationwide grow, innovate and become sustainable. And what a time to take this project on.

Aaron Foley Is Named Black Media Initiative Director - Newmark J-School

A journalist from Detroit, Foley was the city's first chief storyteller.

www.journalism.cuny.edu

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Aaron Foley

@aaronkfoley

2 years

A junkyard I follow in Detroit posted a Rivian for salvage just now

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@aaronkfoley

5 years

Toni was from Ohio, a lot of her characters were Black Midwesteners (from the Midwest) and I don't want us to forget that.

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Aaron Foley

@aaronkfoley

1 year

I have news to share: I’ve optioned the screen rights of my novel BOYS COME FIRST for development into a series at Prime Video. (Considering a 313 vs. 679 plot for the pilot.) Thanks to everyone for believing in this very Black, very gay, very Detroit story. Let’s make history.

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Aaron Foley

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2 years

This is how it’s supposed to be for the Gen Z’s and/or transplants who moved to the city a week ago

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Aaron Foley

@aaronkfoley

4 years

Flint has no clean water, a bunch of white men tried to kidnap the governor, a significant amount of segregated school systems are here, and this publication didn't start hiring Black journalists from this oh-so-great state until a week ago

Detroit Free Press

@freep

4 years

As eyes shift toward Michigan this morning and later today, we feel now is a good time to remind folks - and we don't want to sound arrogant - that this is the single greatest state in America and we will hear no arguments to the contrary #Election2020

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Aaron Foley

@aaronkfoley

3 years

I’m still kinda workshopping this but

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Aaron Foley

@aaronkfoley

1 year

Every review of The Best Man describes the characters from the original as “bougie” and it’s like…were they bougie or just Black professionals with degrees and white-collar jobs

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Aaron Foley

@aaronkfoley

4 years

Loving that new street mural in downtown Detroit

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9 months

The Same Wound Flav? - New York

@DiirtyDiiana

9 months

What’s Detroit math?

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Aaron Foley

@aaronkfoley

1 year

So, about that need for more Black gay shows…

Deadline Hollywood

@DEADLINE

1 year

Amazon Developing ‘Boys Come First’ Series Based On Aaron Foley’s Debut Novel; Chuck Hayward To Pen The Pilot, Serve As Showrunner

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Aaron Foley

@aaronkfoley

2 years

Every Detroit influencer TikTok is like come with me to these hidden gems, the Carhartt store, the Whitney and the Detroit Shipping Co.

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Aaron Foley

@aaronkfoley

3 years

@SciGroupie @bachyns it’s a joke Brian not sociocultural analysis

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Aaron Foley

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3 years

Torch Lake SWEETIE

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Aaron Foley

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4 years

@JENNontheRocks_ she came Viola Davis!

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Aaron Foley

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6 years

Here is Aretha in a D fitted.

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Aaron Foley

@aaronkfoley

3 years

Let’s go into the weekend with some ⚡️ news:⚡️I’m joining the PBS @NewsHour in a new leadership role on Monday. Excited to be part of a premier news-gathering organization and to get back to where I’m at my best: Developing voice and strategy.

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Aaron Foley

@aaronkfoley

4 years

This is officially a @MaurielleFOX2 stan account (h/t @1913Facts for the video)

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Aaron Foley

@aaronkfoley

3 years

Here for extremely niche SE Michigantok

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Aaron Foley

@aaronkfoley

2 years

Because several films have covered this for decades. The Best Man, The Brothers, The Wood, Cooley High, Cornbread, Earl and Me, everything Sidney Poitier made in the 70s. Would even toss in The Five Heartbeats. Straight Black men have never been at a deficit in this genre.

Mike Hill

@ItsMikeHill

2 years

We’ve had Living Single, Girlfriends and Insecure…shows about positive black women & their relationships with each other. Has there ever been a good, successful tv show about black men like this? (One that lasted at least 4 seasons?)

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Aaron Foley

@aaronkfoley

3 years

Getting extremely niche here

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Aaron Foley

@aaronkfoley

3 years

Waiting for Marvin Winans to finish the church on 7 Mile

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Aaron Foley

@aaronkfoley

3 years

Cult classic? It was no. 1 at the box office based on a NYT bestseller

Rated R&B

@RatedRnB

3 years

On this day in 1995, the soundtrack to the cult classic "Waiting to Exhale" was released. What are your top 3 songs?

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Aaron Foley

@aaronkfoley

7 years

The Silverdome

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Aaron Foley

@aaronkfoley

3 years

When you were taught about the Great Lakes did your teacher use the HOMES acronym? Tryna see something

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Aaron Foley

@aaronkfoley

3 years

The Detroit Athletic Club if you’re wearing denim

R A C H I E

@itsmeRachie

3 years

Name a place with tighter security than the Capitol. RIGHT answers only. 😂👇🏽

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Aaron Foley

@aaronkfoley

8 years

#TwitterFingersTurnToBootyFingers

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Aaron Foley

@aaronkfoley

3 years

Let's close out pride month with more 🌈 news 🌈: I've written a novel about three gay Black men trying to figure out love, life and gentrification in modern-day Detroit. BOYS COME FIRST out via @belt_publishing in spring '22.

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Aaron Foley

@aaronkfoley

6 years

Why I hate “Detroit” shirts, part 189

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Aaron Foley

@aaronkfoley

3 years

I've been a bit quiet on Twitter lately but popping in to say I'm joining the burnout league. Today is my last day at @newmarkjschool leading the Black Media Initiative, an honor and pleasure I've had this past year.

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Aaron Foley

@aaronkfoley

3 years

Gonna move back to Detroit and open a Diana Ross-themed gay bar. Drink names like Mahogany, Upside Down, Love Hangover, Double Platinum. Appetizers like I want MUSSELS or SUPREME nachos

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Aaron Foley

@aaronkfoley

3 years

Finally showing Twitter the cover of BOYS COME FIRST, a little Detroit story about three BFFs trying to figure out why men are trash, turning 30 is a scam and why suburbanites are suddenly moving to 6 Mile and Livernois - among other things. Coming May 2022 via @belt_publishing .

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Aaron Foley

@aaronkfoley

3 years

Good morning -- @Josh_Barrage and I wrote 3,700 words on of our teen idols, and it's likely the only Aaliyah story you'll read that links Afrofuturism, NYC drag queens, middle-class Black Detroit, and the grief and healing process. On @NewsHour now:

Aaliyah sounded like the future. 20 years after her death, we keep looking back

Twenty years after Aaliyah’s death, her record company is releasing all her albums to streaming services, starting this month. For many music fans, it may bring closure to a chapter that has lacked...

www.pbs.org

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Aaron Foley

@aaronkfoley

3 years

In other news, a few years back I rescued some old Detroit maps from the City’s planning department they were throwing out and just had them framed. Giving you a little “just opened a craft cocktail space in Corktown” aesthetic

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Aaron Foley

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Some news: I’m now the news editor at @NYAmNews . Honored to help lead this century-old institution in Black America forward into our next 100 years. And though I never expected to return to newspapers, I’ve never been afraid of a challenge in this twisty-turny career of mine.

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Chad Livengood

@ChadLivengood

3 years

“This rivalry’s fucking awesome.” — @stoolpresidente

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3 years

How it started How it's going

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Aaron Foley

@aaronkfoley

6 years

RIP the late-summer Detroit scooter wave, August 2018-August 2018

Bill Schuette

@SchuetteOnDuty

6 years

Tip of the Day: When you visit #Detroit , be sure to try one of these great new Bird electric scooters! It’s a blast! #PureDetroit313 #DetroitLove #PureMichigan #MIGOP #MIGOV

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Aaron Foley

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4 years

I talk State Rep. Jewell Jones in my monthly @BLACMagazine column, out now, in the August issue. His immature antics, what Inkster loses, fears of criticizing young Black men in politics, and a capitol press corps too consumed by Owosso barbers to notice:

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Aaron Foley

@aaronkfoley

2 years

There is a Yamasaki-designed home for sale on the eastside of Detroit right now that was relisted this week at $95k (highest yet), but it has been on the market for at least six years at various price points with no renovations made to the inside:

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@aaronkfoley

2 years

Yeah the housing market might be getting out of control

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Aaron Foley

@aaronkfoley

4 months

I think of how 25 years ago there was an entire white woman on VH1 with a guitar genre (Lisa Loeb, Shawn Colvin, Meredith Brooks, Paula Cole…) and all that music was elite! Paula had the whole hood up going up for I Don’t Wanna Wait. TS is missing whatever that sauce is

Brittany Luse

@bmluse

4 months

THIS IS SO INTERESTING! What a great point! Even Ashlee Simpson's Pieces of Me had a gogo version !!! TS has Black fans obvs, but she cannot penetrate culturally among Black people in a way that is remarkable for an artist of her size. Even Avril Lavigne could do that.

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Aaron Foley

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11 years

"Spring, Summer, Fall, Cuffing? The New Season That Has Meteorologists Baffled" #ABCReports

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Aaron Foley

@aaronkfoley

4 years

Don’t forget Source Booksellers in Detroit and Black Stone Bookstore in Ypsilanti.

Bookshop.org US

@Bookshop_Org

4 years

During #blackouttuesday we'd like to highlight some Black-owned independent bookstores. Please support them all the time, and especially now.

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Aaron Foley

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2 months

I’m ready to have the conversation about which region (aside from Texas) has the most influence on her work

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Aaron Foley

@aaronkfoley

6 years

U of D giving us the “y’all poor? lmaoooo can’t relate”

U of D Jesuit

@UofDJesuit

6 years

In response to news reports of unsafe water at Detroit Public Schools: U of D Jesuit has its water tested biannually & is currently in full compliance with federal/state regulations. Officials say DPS plumbing is the reason for the lead & copper issue, not the water supply.

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Aaron Foley

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1 year

The Ilitch-paid-Rosa Parks’ rent story has made it to TikTok and this is your perennial reminder that it’s not entirely true! Ilitch and a coalition of mostly Black leaders *helped* to pay her rent for a time and she was nearly evicted again at one point when they stopped paying.

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Scolla Fungwe

@Scolla313

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“I’ma put my Buffs On To Read This!” Big Gretch Is The Hardest 🤣😂

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Aaron Foley

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3 years

What a busy news cycle to announce this, but we're adding three new correspondents to @NewsHour Communities, all starting today: Roby Chavez in New Orleans @thegabhour in St. Louis and @fkwang in Detroit/Dearborn! More on this new initiative here:

PBS NewsHour Launches Local Community Reporting Initiative

Arlington, VA (Thursday, March 18, 2021) -- PBS NewsHour today announced the launch of The Communities Initiative, a project to expand the scope and reach of its journalism and news team. The new...

www.pbs.org

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Aaron Foley

@aaronkfoley

6 years

When I do a second edition of How to Live in Detroit w/o Being a Jackass there will be an entire chapter on Whole Foods parking lot etiquette

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@aaronkfoley

7 years

Today the City announces Fitz Forward in Puritan/6 Mile. Black developers. More than 100 houses to be rehabbed. Existing residents included.

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9 years

Ask her where your next album is at then. RT @KeriHilson While yall playin, Rachel might have more answers than Sway 😂🎓

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Aaron Foley

@aaronkfoley

4 years

Please pray for downtown Detroit, Midtown and downtown Royal Oak 🙏🏽

Doner

@doner_agency

4 years

When the motor stops, the spirit continues. #staysafedetroit

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Aaron Foley

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4 years

Hoping folks see that the way T*ump is treating Gretchen is the way Michigan R’s have treated Detroit for years. If you’re wondering why state aid to things like school funding and car insurance reform has been slow or nonexistent, then...

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Aaron Foley

@aaronkfoley

3 years

Little Caesars gon get me through good AND bad times. Cause none of these have a $5 option

philip lewis

@Phil_Lewis_

3 years

Michigan folks, you can only eat from one of these chains for the rest of your life: which one are you choosing?

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Aaron Foley

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2 years

My favorite fun fact is that if you work for Detroit city government, you can't type either of these terms into an internet search on a city computer without getting flagged by HR.

Joey Rhode

@RufioJones

2 years

As you may know, Detroit’s Black Bottom was paved over to make I-375. When the freeway gets turned into an urban boulevard, I have today dubbed it Black Top. Record this tweet, Library of Congress, so we can revisit it when the project concludes to see if the name caught on.

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LTD’s “Love Ballad” is just a perfect song, like how??

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Aaron Foley

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4 years

This week's episode of @ThisAmerLife has COVID in Detroit in focus. I was tasked with closing out the episode by reporting a story about Marlowe Stoudamire, which turned out to be one of the hardest assignments I've done. Make time for the whole ep here:

The Reprieve - This American Life

How Covid-19 has changed the nurses and doctors at one hospital in Detroit, and their city.

www.thisamericanlife.org

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Aaron Foley

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11 months

Me once again explaining that “Detroit-style pizza” is a recent and gimmicky marketing term invented by Little Caesars’ execs stemming from the byproduct of Bourdain-esque foodies looking to brand a style of making pizza that never mattered to locals

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Aaron Foley

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3 years

More new reporting from @thegabhour on a critical but under-discussed issue affecting generational wealth in Black families: Eminent domain - land seizure from Black residents - gets a reckoning in 2021. Focus on one Missouri family's story on @NewsHour :

Decades after a Missouri town seized a Black doctor’s home, his relatives sought to reclaim his...

CREVE COEUR- At the end of a winding road in Creve Coeur, just west of St. Louis County, a park now bears the name of Dr. Howard P Venable, the Black ophthalmologist who purchased the land as his own...

www.pbs.org

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Aaron Foley

@aaronkfoley

2 years

Advance copies of my silly little Detroit novel came in the mail today.

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Aaron Foley

@aaronkfoley

3 years

I want to see more Black investigative journalists, yes. But also...just more Black journalists covering all topics. I want Black pop culture journalists to have the same value in newsrooms as Black sports journalists. Black business journalists. Black communities journalists.

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Aaron Foley

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2 years

Woke up a novelist today. My Black, queer, Detroit book is finally out everywhere. How to buy: @Audible audio narrated by @JelaniAlladin : Direct from @belt_publishing : Amazon: B&N:

Boys Come First|Paperback

This hilarious, touching debut novel by Aaron Foley, author of How to Live in Detroit Without Being a Jackass, follows three Black gay millennial men looking for love, friendship, and professional...

www.barnesandnoble.com

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Aaron Foley

@aaronkfoley

7 years

Do you ever stop and think to yourself that Oprah puts out a self-titled magazine every month with her face on the cover

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Aaron Foley

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3 years

Editors across the country these past two days

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23 days

I get the “how is Detroit doing” question a lot and I just always sum it up with there are many new things to be proud of (greenways and Riverwalk especially) but you can’t easily buy quality men’s dress socks or underwear in the city limits.

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5 years

A real thing on an actual website

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Aaron Foley

@aaronkfoley

2 years

“8 Mile” and “Lose Yourself” turn 20 next fall, get your retrospectives in order and consider hiring Detroit writers to pen them

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Aaron Foley

@aaronkfoley

4 years

Please do not let people who were not alive in the ‘90s tell you what the ‘90s were like based on Wiki and Google Images research

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Aaron Foley

@aaronkfoley

6 years

Thanks to mom for hooking me up with this image of the Queen at the 25th anniversary of Walk Down Woodward with Coleman Young (to the right in the hat) and Ed McNamara (to the left, white cap)

The Neighborhoods

@StoriesFromDet

6 years

Aretha was Detroit.

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Aaron Foley

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8 months

Hello, I’m a 46-year-old Michigan journalist with alimony payments and an MSN email. Here’s my opinion on why 19-year-olds should play a football game (1/43)

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3 years

When I say I’d only move to certain Oakland County suburbs because they have unmatched midcentury houses this is what I mean:

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2 years

Really not an exaggeration to say the world's Xennials have never known peace. *Multiple* wars and *multiple* recessions in our very short lifetimes with a lil pandemic for razzle dazzle?

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Aaron Foley

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1 year

Thought maybe you all would like to see some promo shots from my mom’s collection of Black Hollywood archives

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Aaron Foley

@aaronkfoley

2 years

The first chapter of my book (out May 31) references our legendary local dance show “The Scene,” where one protagonist’s parents met as dancers in the 1970s. Here’s a clip I love from that time, and proof Detroiters been doing ballroom since the dawn of time:

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2 years

Marie Antoinette in 1793:

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3 years

Not mad Gretchen went to a bar with a bunch of people, but I am mad she went to the Landshark after graduation. We're Dusty's Wine Cellar age now.

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4 years

God, right now:

Confessions of a Comedian

@KeepItOnTheDELO

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I can’t believe I’m working on the last episodes of this series. It was a good run while it lasted. Forever grateful for the opportunity.

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6 years

Once you find out about the DTW Westin TSA checkpoint you’re not supposed to tell anyone. I don’t make the rules.

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3 years

y/n?

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6 years

I’m curious about what “Martin” in 2018 Detroit would look like. Do they still live in Garden Court or would they have moved to Southfield by now?

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Aaron Foley

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3 years

Some personal news: Excited to announce that I’ve cooked every vegetable in the fridge without a single item going bad.

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Aaron Foley

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6 years

Here's the cover of the second edition of How to Live in Detroit Without Being a Jackass, out October 1. Pre-order here:

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@aaronkfoley

6 years

We’re just in hell now

Beth

@__BECKYB

6 years

Everyday we stray further from Gods light @aaronkfoley

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Aaron Foley

@aaronkfoley

6 years

I loved writing this (and taking with one of the Swansons) because the world is learning what a Detroit service looks like

The Neighborhoods

@StoriesFromDet

6 years

Black-owned funeral homes are some of Detroit's longest-serving black businesses, carrying a long tradition of making sure services are poignant, caskets are sharp and 'the body' looks good:

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5 years

Because our ancestors left the south for better opportunities here and we try to fulfill the promise they saw in us by staying here. Sounds like a topic that could be explored by a black columnist, but...

Detroit Free Press

@freep

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Why do we live here

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Started/going

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5 years

Is it me or did the H&M news just kind of fly by yesterday? Did we reach That Point? That Point where a new thing in Detroit is just a regular thing and there's no need for a parade? (I hope we've reached That Point.)

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6 years

Me trying not to complain about downtown traffic because it ultimately benefits Detroit’s economy and it wasn’t this crowded that long ago