Rep. John Conyers (D-Mich.) said yesterday that he will convene a forum next week to discuss legal and other implications stemming from Detroit’s bankruptcy filing, the Detroit Free Press reported yesterday. Radio host, author and Georgetown University professor Michael Eric Dyson will host the forum to be held at Fellowship Church on West Outer Drive in Detroit, at 6 p.m. on Sept. 6. Harvey Hollins III, director of Gov. Rick Snyder’s Office of Urban and Metropolitan Initiatives, is expected to be there, as is Wayne County Executive Robert Ficano and other local elected officials, clergy and civic leaders, including officers of the NAACP and the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees. Conyers said that the forum will “examine the full range of issues facing Detroit as a result of the bankruptcy filing, including the impact on pensions, the state of possible conflicts of interests and other issues raised by an unelected official making the filing, such as whether the filing was made in good faith.”
