Stevie Wonder to play riots anniversary event

Stevie Wonder will sing at the Detroit’s Ford Field stadium as part of a 40-day observance of the 40th anniversary of the city’s deadly 1967 riots, according to a media report.

The observance will remember the five days of rioting in 1967 that killed 43 people, injured hundreds and marked a key juncture in Detroit’s five-decade decline from an industrial giant of about two million people to an impoverished city of about 900,000.