Tribute to Detroit’s Black Matriarchs planned for Sunday

Tribute to Detroit’s Black Matriarchs planned for Sunday

Marcia Black can trace her family’s migration to Detroit back to her great-grandmother Sarah Johnson.  During the 1940s, Johnson made the trek from Mississippi to the Motor City, settling on Ferry Park Street in the Northwest Goldberg neighborhood.  “She had six girls and one boy,” Black said. “She was a single mother and she was really able to use her resources to create some sort of sustainability so that our family could survive and continue …