Study: Detroit’s Recovery Is Real–Will It Last?
Jake Neher/WDET The city of Detroit is officially out from under state financial oversight. That's after a historic municipal bankruptcy, total...
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Detroiter Michael Eric Dyson Discusses ‘Tears We Cannot Stop: A Sermon to White America’
Midwest Literary Walk Detroiter Michael Eric Dyson is a professor and author whose assessments of America’s original sins and our...
Why Is Ford Killing Its Cars?
Jake Neher/WDET This week, Ford announced it will phase out North American sales of sedans between now and 2022 in favor...
The Westerns of Detroit Novelist Elmore Leonard
Laura Weber Davis/WDET The world knows Elmore Leonard as the native son who penned classic modern crime novels such as...
Power of Reading: What Impact Did Your Favorite Book Have on Your Life?
Will Schwalbe Every year, The Midwest Literary Walk sends book lovers on a unique “stroll” through town where they hear...
Michigan’s Education Landscape: How Did We Get Here?
Michigan State University, Laura Weber-Davis/WDET Over the past three decades, education and school reform has been a heavily debated issue....
New Detroit Public TV Documentary Explores Line 5 Pipeline Under Mackinac Straits
Laura Weber Davis/WDET There’s a pervasive fear among environmentalists that it will take a catastrophe -- such as oil flowing out of...
Regional Transit Authority of SE Michigan Wants Your Input on Transit Plan
WDET/Laura Herberg This week, the Regional Transit Authority of Southeast Michigan (RTA) kicks off its public comment period about its...
Should Medicaid Recipients Be Required To Work To Receive Benefits?
Jake Neher/WDET In 2014, Michigan became the largest state with a Republican-dominated state government to expand Medicaid under the Affordable...
Bookstock 2018 Expects to Raise $2 Million for Local Literacy Projects
Jake Neher/WDET Bookstock 2018 kicks off April 22 at Laurel Park Place in Livonia. It runs through April 29. The...
Illustrator for ‘The Black Panther’ Newspaper Talks Power of Art to Create Change
Courtesy of Emory Douglas Art and social upheaval have walked hand in hand throughout our history. Groups setting out to...
“Data Is the New Oil,” Says Futurist Amy Webb [TRANSCRIPT]
Amy Webb likes to say that “data is the new oil," and the parallels between the two valuable commodities were on...