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Local 4 is celebrating Black History Month by taking you on a tour of Detroit's historical sites that you probably don't know about.

Detroit has dedicated a historic plaque at the Sojourner Truth Homes on the city’s east side.

An affordable housing developer uncovered the ruins of the third Bethel A.M.E. Church while working on a project in Midtown.

A big piece of American history sits in a Detroit neighborhood on the eastside at the home of Dr. Ossian Sweet and Gladys Sweet. Their story was the center of a national housing discrimination movement nearly 100 years ago.

It’s the highway that displaced two historically Black communities in Detroit, and Wednesday night, the plan to re-imagine I-375 is getting one step closer to reality.

During a time of segregation in the US, there was one destination in Detroit where people from around the world, no matter their color or culture flocked to for a great time. That was “Paradise Valley,” where thousands of African Americans thrived and owned over 300 businesses. It was located in an area known as Black Bottom.

For close to two decades, an unfinished mega-church sat empty along Woodward Avenue in Detroit, not far from the Ferndale border. Now there’s a renewed push to get work started back up on what’s turned out to be a vacant eyesore.

The Detroit Historical Society is debuting a new, interactive exhibit honoring the history of Detroit’s Black Bottom neighborhood.

A mile-long stretch of freeway leading into Downtown Detroit has long been a point of controversy dating back to when it was built.

The newly launched Metro Detroit Black Business Alliance (MDBBA) is excited to celebrate Juneteenth and its first 100 days of impact throughout the month of June.

Detroit is an important city in history and especially in Black History. That is where Black Scroll Network steps in. They are providing tours of Detroit that highlight our city’s importance in Black History. Jordan is a former educator and, through his years of teaching, he realized his students did not know much about Detroit’s history, specifically its important Black History. So he set up Black Scroll Network with that mission, to teach everyone about our city’s Black History.

“For a few years this was the Black hospital in the city of Detroit,” Jordan said. Jordan said Sweet worked at Dunbar Hospital. READ: More Black History Month coverageIn 1925, Sweet bought a home in a white neighborhood, and a mob tried to force the family out. And one of the most recognizable faces of the civil rights movement is Rosa Parks. But many do not know that Parks continued her fight for civil rights in Detroit.

DETROIT - What started as a lesson about ancient Greece is now an investigation into a Detroit Renaissance High School teacher's comments to his class. Parents said this was a world history class and students were learning about the Helots of Sparta, an enslaved class of people. "He adds on, after they learn about the Helots, you're all Helots,'" Jamon Jordan said. "He tells the students they're Helots, and my child, my son Joshua, states Are you saying we're slaves?' And the teacher without pausing says, Yeah, you're slaves.