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Grito Productions

A comprehensive history book of Detroit comes to life in Detroit 48202: Conversations Along a Postal Route. Compelling personal interviews provide Sporn the pathway to the city’s history, all of which unravels in stunning, rarely seen archival footage.

Herb Boyd, Author of Black Detroit: A People’s History of Self-Determination

DETROIT 48202 provides a rare inside-out perspective on the social, political and economic history of a city that embodies the effects of boom-and-bust capitalism and structural racism, as well as the ongoing resilience of a spirited, steadfast and embattled African American community. As the inspirational figure at the film's center, and with humor, generosity and hard-won wisdom, Wendell Watkins offers an intimate, inviting glimpse of a world too often reduced to fatalistic headlines and lurid sound bites.

Ann Hornaday, Film Critic