Deadline approaching for proposals to save historic Belle Isle Boathouse

Preservationists are fighting to save the historic Belle Isle Boathouse in Detroit. The 40,000-square-foot building, constructed by the Detroit Boat...

CuriosiD: What’s the highest point in Detroit?

WDET’s CuriosiD series answers your questions about everything Detroit. Subscribe to CuriosiD on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, NPR.org or wherever you get your podcasts. In this episode of CuriosiD, we...

Greenfield Village buys historic house with ties to MLK

The Henry Ford bought an important civil rights landmark in Alabama and plans to bring it to Michigan. It's the...

CuriosiD: What’s up with all these pheasants?

WDET’s CuriosiD series answers your questions about everything Detroit. Subscribe to CuriosiD on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, NPR.org or wherever you get your podcasts.   In this...

Charting the course of pop music through its number one hits

The history of pop music is still being written. Not just in the weekly Billboard updates on what’s at the...

This July Fourth, know your Bill of Rights: A WDET primer

Our July 4th holiday -- Independence Day -- marks the anniversary of the 13 original colonies' Declaration of Independence from...

How Did We Get Here? A Visual Timeline of Mass Transit in Southeast Michigan

Did you know that commuter rail service ran between Detroit and Ann Arbor as late as 1984? Or that Detroit...

CuriosiD: How Did Detroit Become a Center for Arabs in the United States?

  WDET listener Priya Ganji  has a diverse group of friends of Arab heritage, and she’s noticed their family, religious...

CuriosiD: Lewis Cass, Michigan Governor, Architect of Indian Removal

Listener Alli Harnish submitted this question to CuriosiD, and the WDET audience voted to have it answered. Are the many different Cass...

The Essential Conversation: WDET’s Ann Delisi with Photographer Leni Sinclair (Part 1)

Cybelle Codish, Photographer  "I may not have much money, but I feel wealthy beyond measure." --Leni Sinclair In June, Leni...

Film to Document Origin of Creem Magazine in Detroit’s Cass Corridor

  Creem magazine writer and current Detroit News reporter Susan Whitall and former Creem editor Bill Holdship join Ann Delisi...

“Terror In The City Of Champions” Explores Violence in Depression-Era Detroit

Jake Neher/WDET In his new book "Terror in the City of Champions" author Tom Stanton juxtaposes violent gang activity with sports success...