Alice Randall's innovative new novel chronicles the history of Black Detroit beyond Motown, and features a cast of real life artists, doctors, sports figures, activists and movers and shakers.

It's a book of saints, 52 chapters, one for each week of the year, each describing one secular saint of old Black Detroit, the real people who orbited at the Black Bottom neighborhood of the city.

Black Bottom Saints opens in 1968 where Ziggy Johnson lies dying in a room in Kirwood Hospital — a Black-owned, Black-staffed historic institution in Detroit.

She wrote the book, "Black Bottom Saints." Thank you so much for joining me. Randall: Thank you for being here to celebrate. Joy is radical. Love is this strut, and hate is the stumble.

But it was just about a year ago that I learned a chapter was written about her in the 2020 book “Black Bottom Saints” by Alice Randall, for her work with the Youth Colossal musical revue each ...

“Black Bottom Saints” opens in 1968 where Ziggy Johnson lies dying in a room in Kirwood Hospital — a Black-owned, Black-staffed historic institution in Detroit. Knowing the end is near ...