WSU communication alumna Kim Trent '91 '10, husband Ken Coleman, inspired by Black History...

CBS Detroit

"Black History: Couple finds influences near and far"
by Stephanie Davis

As part of its 2014 Black History Month series, CBS Detroit reports of the events in Black History that inspired Detroit power couple Ken and Kim (Trent) Coleman. Ken is a historian and author of the book This Day in African American Life in Detroit. Kim wears many hats in the community; among them the youngest Wayne State University Regent to be elected. Ken's influence in Black History: "It was the election of Coleman Alexander Young as the first African American mayor of Detroit." Kim worked and studied in Cape Town, South Africa, and was inspired by the work of the late South African president Nelson Mandela: "I think the thing in modern history that inspired me a lot was the end of apartheid," she said. "That was something that happened during my lifetime that I got to see and I got to feel, I was very emotional about it. I spent a year in South Africa going to graduate school."

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