WDET EXCLUSIVE: The Origin of the MJR Clap

Some moviegoers will clap after a really good film. At MJR, a Southeast Michigan theater chain with ten locations, patrons clap...

Snap Judgement Host Glynn Washington Talks Growing Up In A White Supremacist Cult In Michigan

Jake Neher, WDET Glynn Washington is the host of SNAP Judgement, the storytelling program set to a beat. Washington and SNAP...

Jeff Milo’s Best in Local Music 2018: The CultureShift Playlist

Daniel Topete CultureShift airs weekdays 12 p.m. to 2 p.m. on WDET 101.9FM Detroit public radio. Every week on CultureShift,...

Remembering Ted Lucas’ First and Only Solo Album

 Click on the audio player to listen. CultureShift airs weekdays at noon.  Detroit rocker Ted Lucas first made a name...

Postcards from Eastern Market: Making Indian Food Fast Food

During one of her most recent trip to the Eastern Market, Food Journalism fellow Dorothy Hernandez visited Curry Fresh’s stand...

Postcards from Hamtramck: A Shopping Cart to the the World

Established 18 years ago, Al-Haramine International Foods caters to the region’s diverse and growing immigrant population. They sell Yemeni, Bangladeshi, Indian, Polish,...

Detroit Today Hosts Robust Conversation on Housing Insecurity in Final Book Club Event

In 2018, Detroit Today hosted a summer community read of Matthew Desmond's book "Evicted", a Pulitzer Prize winning look at poverty and...

CuriosiD: Detroit’s Citywide Address Change and the Search for 203 Pingree

Listener Kathy Hall Knall has a question about a home from her family's past in Detroit: My father grew up...

WDET Receives $76,000 to Continue the Detroit Documenters Project

WDET has received a $76,000 grant from the Community Foundation of Southeastern Michigan in partnership with City Bureau and Citizen...

Canadians Face Travel Ban for Talking With U.S. Pot Industry While Michigan Dispensaries Fear Product Shortage

Investors are smelling the profit potential in legal marijuana. And the latest fertile field for financiers is Michigan, the 10th...

“We’re the Richest Democracy With the Worst Poverty,” says EVICTED Author Matthew Desmond

John D. & Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Detroit Today with Stephen Henderson has spent much of 2018 reading with listeners, discussing some...

Former Head Of ACLU Of Michigan Talks About Her Big Year

Jake Neher/WDET Over two decades, Kary Moss turned the ACLU of Michigan from a tiny office in the Book Building...