Drawing from his own trailer park childhood near Eight Mile Road, Eminem tells the tale of a white kidвЂ™s efforts to break into a rap career.Д®ight Mile Road also played a role in one of the most notable controversies of famed Detroit Mayor Coleman A.

The notion of Eight Mile as DetroitвЂ™s dividing line was catapulted into the national spotlight through local rapper EminemвЂ™s hit film 8 Mile. Although African-Americans live in communities north of Eight Mile, the sense of separation between the two areas still remains. As the northern border to the City of Detroit, Eight Mile separates the cityвЂ™s predominately African American urban core from the more white suburbs to the north. Only a portion of Eight Mile is highway M-102, from M5 and Grand River Avenue on the west to I-94 in Harper Woods to the east, where it continues eastward as Vernier Road.Д®ight Mile exists as a physical dividing line, as well as a de-facto psychological and cultural boundary for the region. Running from Grosse Pointe Woods in the east, to just west of Pontiac Trail, it is also known as Baseline Road west of Haggerty Road. On a map, Eight Mile separates Wayne and Washtenaw counties from Macomb, Oakland, and Livingston counties. Hence Eight Mile Road is eight miles from that center. The downtown Detroit intersection of Woodward and Michigan avenues at Campus Martius, designated as the city center from which DetroitвЂ™s spoke-like streets radiate, is вЂњmile zeroвЂќ for the purpose of numbering the mile roads. Its more popular name is derived from the Detroit areaвЂ™s mile road system which identifies streets running east-west throughout the region. Spanning more than 20 miles across metropolitan Detroit it currently exists in most areas as an eight-lane, boulevarded highway. Gradually, the road was paved, widened and extended.

Beginning in 1928, parts of it were designated as M-102. Currently serving as DetroitвЂ™s northern border, Eight Mile Road was originally a dirt thoroughfare, established in 1815 as Baseline Road during a survey of the Northwest Territory.

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