Metro Parent Publishing Group is a Ferndale, Mich.-based company that produces family-focused publications, Web content, events and television segments.
Its specific target audience is the southeast Michigan region, including the Detroit and Ann Arbor metropolitan areas.
The correlating “African American Family Magazine Distinguished Speaker Series” features noteworthy individuals throughout the year.
Aimed at parents with kids ages baby through teen, it includes various columns, feature articles, and a “Family Fun Guide” calendar of local events.
It includes listings of various seasonal and year-round attractions throughout southeast Michigan, such as museums, entertainment, nature/outdoor destinations, sports, fairs and festivals, zoos, water parks, ice rinks and more.
It gives parents an opportunity to meet local and national representatives of summer programs targeted at kids ages 3–18.
The “Education Expo” is an annual event of Metro Parent held on a Sunday in late September/early October at the Cranbrook Institute of Science in Bloomfield Hills, Mich.
The event is intended to celebrate and educate about Michigan's three major Native American tribes: the Ojibwe, the Ottawa and the Potawatomi.
Previous keynote speakers have included former president Bill Clinton, “Lost Boy of Sudan” John Bul Dau, poet and actress Maya Angelou, Coretta Scott King and Toni Morrison.