Aaron Foley is a senior editor at PBS NewHour. He previously has served as director of the Black Media Initiative at the Newmark Graduate School and the chief storyteller for the city of Detroit. His books include How to Live in Detroit Without Being a Jackass and The Detroit Neighborhood Guidebook, and his work has appeared in This American Life, The Atlantic, and elsewhere. A Detroit native, he lives in Brooklyn’s Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood.