Throughout this week, WDET will take a look back at Dr. Martin Luther King, Junior's 1963 march in Detroit and look forward to this weekend’s commemoration.

Before his record release show, Detroit singer James Linck speaks with WDET's Travis Wright about his debut album "Fortress of Solitude."

This week the Detroit Lions began their first serious action since the recent NFL draft, holding a week of mandatory workouts.

In the last census, approximately two out of three Michigan communities lost residents. To change that trend, Governor Snyder hopes Washington will consider what he calls “Urban Pioneer Visas” as it works to overhaul immigration law. The Governor says the special visas will help attract foreign residents to Michigan cities hit particularly hard by population loss. Governor Snyder tells WDET’s Travis Wright that population loss has an incredible impact on the state.

Just behind the Museum of Contemporary Art, in Detroit’s Midtown neighborhood, a newly built ranch home —white with blue shudders and charcoal shingles — recently rolled between a swath of green sod and a newly painted sky blue wall. The scene is complete. A slice of suburb in the city. But what is this scene? WDET’s Travis Wright brings us a story on one of Detroit’s most interesting homes.

Wilson currently serves as the Deputy Director for Strategic Scientific Planning and Program Coordination at the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities of the National Institutes of Health.

Governor declares financial emergency in Hamtramck, which faces second state takeover since 2000. But the city has other options.

Michigan Amber Alert Awareness Week runs through May 25th.