Homage 2 BE

Based on outcomes and narratives on historical trauma telling, through art, neat restorative justice special events and partnering with organizations across the region to put on. HOMAGAE TO BLACK EXCELLENCE’s personal investment in all of H2BE initiatives continues to engage Black Artists ages 24-50 to theirr headquarters at  Dearborn Artspace .  Homage to Black Excellence has led major projects to address hate, colorism, economic development, truth and reconciliation. 



 Downtown Dearborn Development Authorit 2021 - 2022 Chairs' and with the help of Dr. Robbya Green Weir, Frank D. Woods, Dexter Sullivan, Pastor Maurice Hardwick, Leslie Windless, Kimberly Moore, Juanita Moore, Rozenia Johnson, Jessica Drake and Dr. Julia research contiued to move our work forward. 


H2BE's  projects are the foundation and model for healing trauma from racial color hate policies and practices within community policing in East Downtown Dearborn. 


Dearborn as a whole was documented as part of a border patrol, sundown town and racial profiling roadway where Black African Americans traveling, visiting or working were economic victims of public safety misuse of traffic citations and arrest with cooperative data analaysis. It’s no secret that citations take money from the African American Community. 

The history of Dearborn role in and how racially segregated the city was in the past 79 years must be repaired by Black organizations, Black students, families and communities as it relates to Black African American Residents choosing to integrate here.   


"This is a common language space that is discussed all the time through an equity lens of high visibility traffic enforcement. Dearborn Police Department's Officers practiced, enforced and model these laws while looking for other types of crimes, alienating innocent African Americans with minor low level traffic offenses and racial profiling. This is over policing, targeted policing poverty and African Americans that has deteriorated community relationships and has failed to make our community safer (2022 Zoom Interview)."  


Searching and arrest and citation there are disparities in the stopping of the arrest. African Americans are searched and arrested more than any other population.




Homage 2 BE provides a chance for persons to give, offer support and bring high level transformation to the traumas that African Americans have experienced. 


We are helping to form community based solutions digging in deeply with credible messengers, referrals and resources that are successful methodologies with a collab approach.  


H2BE is much deeper and fluid in the sense of building a trustful and accessible relationships.  



Former Western Wayne NAACP Chairman,  Pastor of Face to AFce Int. Outreach Ministries and  President Michigan Democratic Party Western Wayne Black Cacus  with friend and Dr. Robbya at H2BE's Juneteenth Prayer Breakfast inside City Hall Artspace Projects Inc Court Yard in Downtown Dearborn

Left to right: United States Represenatiave Debbie Dingal 6th District, Michigan Sate Attorney General Dana Nessel, Former City of Detroit Executive Director of Transit and City of Tuscon Arizona General Manager of Sun Tran, Sun Van & Sun Link  C. Mikel Oglesby, Former Suburban Mobility Authroity Regional Transit Deputy Robert Cramer and City of Detroit General Manager at Detroit Transportation Coorporation (Detroit People Mover)

African Americans lead 1st Dearborn Juneteenth Parade down Henry Ford's Michigan Avenue

Although no one in either administration may have never participated in the traumatic acts, Dearborn has benefited from these racial policies and practices of economic extraction from African Americans. 

Comments Made by Dearborn Residents identifying as White 

"Well we are overwhelmed with the Arab Population so thinking about ways to allocate time and resources to help Black People is the least of our concerns. " Anonymous

"I think white people in Dearborn are afraid to give Black People Power is becasue we are afraid that you will do the same thing to us that we are doing and done to your race." Loreli Munez, Co-Founder Littlefield Action for Social Justice  

A lot of us in Dearborn are tired of carrying the burden of hate that was done to African American's by our City's Administration.

"The horrific traumas Black people experienced by our police department tickets must change in order to move our city forward." State Representative Erin Byrnes, Michigan 15th District

DEARBORN COUNCILWOMEN LESLIE HERRICK WITH FRIENDS VIEWING 'ART OF COURAGE" TEXTILE designed by Dr. Denguhlanga and part of restoritive justice and healing trauma "REIMAGINING COMMUNITY POLICING" funded by Downtown Dearborn and Community Foundation of Southeast Michigan.

"The hiearchy of Dearborn is White first, Labenese second, Syrian, Iraqi, Yemen then Black and the rest of like Asians, Native Americans and Latinos. This is the way its always been done." Sam Luqman, Former State Rep Candiated and Dearborn Community Leader 

"We are so sorrying that your race has had to go through so much. I did not know how much Black people went through to live in American and our city, Dearborn." Cristina Sheppard-Decius, former Dearborn Downtown Development Authority (DDA) , former Ferndale DDA Director,  former Birmingham DDA Executive Director and founder of POW! Strategies

"Yes, with your emancipation, civil rights and economic rights our Arab population is in position beacsue of all these acts. This is why I never judge people. I treat all races the same with respect and dignity."  Anonymous

"What do you expect? We are the predominated race in Dearborn. So we did Blackface and made fun of Black Pain because everyone was doing it. It was a way of life for us growing up."  Rector Terri C. Pilarski, Episcopal Diocese of Michigan Priest

"H2BE we could have never did what there doing now five years ago or ten years ago." David Norwood, former City of Dearborn Sustainabilty Coordinator, Charter Township of Canton Director Municipal Services 

"We went kicking and screaming following Homage to Black Excellence as public truth and reconcilations began to happen. All the work they do is so needed and welcomed by many of us born, raised and living in Dearborn." Anonymous 

TEFERI BRENT WITH CHIEF RICKY BROWN, DETROIT TRANSIT POLICE, DR. ROBBYA GREEN WEIR, FLORIDA AGRICULTURE & MECHCANICAL UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF HEALTH SERVICE ADMINISTRATION, 2022 NATIONAL ORGANZATION BLACK LAW ENFORCEMENT EXECUTUES METRO DETROIT PRESIDENT, COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SOUTHEAST MICHIGAN PHOTOGRAPHER HECTOR, LORIELI MUNEZ, RON 'DJ JUNGLE 313" JOHNSON FOUNDER OF SPIN INC DETROIT, PROFESSOR CHIQUITA MCKENZIE, H2BE ADVISORY BOARD MEMBER AND KINESTHETIC AND SENSORY ARTIST during healing circle for African Americans experience with "Imaging Community Policing" 

"We work diligently to make connections. It is about a reciprocal relation that is based on a set of shared principles that speak to the liberation and empowerment of Dearborn's Black African American  population of residents, small bussines start ups, artists, allies and extended families within the community, especially the African American community."  H2BE



36 YEARS



Over 36 years of color hate racism, color hate segregation and historical trauma from Dearborn, Homage to Black Excellence is a literay working nonprofit for releasing color hate and intellect hate trauma without suppression or being buried by  city of Dearborn’s past, present and future administrations.  Through collaborating and partnerships this work hold Dearborn's Mayor, Department Directors and City Council President, Pro-Tem and City Council Members, Religious Institutions accountable for the systems that they inherited and now represent. 

H2BE works to craft actions for improvement in economic development, political voice and special event programming for African Americans as part of Dearborn’s resident population and Southeast Michiganders still reliving abuse of power based on the colored Black.