The Parade Company announced Thursday that NFL Hall of Famer Calvin Johnson Jr. and Detroit Bishop Edgar Vann will be Grand Marshals for the 95th annual America’s Thanksgiving Parade presented by Gardner-White.

DETROIT – Metro Detroiters are taking to the streets of Downtown Detroit for a third day to protest police brutality following the killing of black Minneapolis man George Floyd. Similarly Saturday’s protest in Detroit began peacefully until demonstrators became agitated when police ensured they kept their distance from the Detroit Police Department’s headquarters. Still, local pastors are calling on demonstrators to protest peacefully after long nights of tear gas and arrests by Detroit police. RELATED: Grand Rapids clean-up underway after night of fiery protests“Let’s keep the protests strong but let’s keep them non-violent," Vann said. MORE: Leaders call out protesters from suburbs who participated in violent Detroit George Floyd protestRELATED HEADLINES

DETROIT – This week was another of the City of Detroit trying to give us all reason to believe the crime problem is somehow on the cusp of a solution. They believe going after "broken windows", j-walking and speeding everywhere, getting the "squeegee men" off the streets helped prevent larger and worse crimes thus reducing the crime rate. Yesterday the chief stood with a couple dozen local pastors from Detroit who want to initiate the "Detroit Night Walks" program used in Boston. I asked Bishop Edgar Vann, one of Detroit's foremost and well known religious figures a question about this program. Read: Thieves tear up Detroit church to scrap metalsYet for all the good this church does it is out roughly ten thousand dollars tonight.