Detroit Today: Checking in on Detroit sports after a controversial NFL Draft
Sports are a big part of Detroit’s culture. All the major stadiums sit within the city limits, and thousands show...
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Detroit Today: How photographer Stephen McGee has shifted Detroit narratives
Detroit has endured a lot of uphill battles in the last 20 years alone — including recession, corruption scandals, bankruptcy...
Detroit Today: Ford opens mobility site within Michigan Central campus
Detroit has long been known as the Motor City, ever since car manufacturing and distribution took off here. To ensure...
Detroit Today: Nasser Beydoun on his run for Senate
Democratic Congresswoman Elissa Slotkin threw her hat into the ring for Senate in late February. She hopes to fill the...
Detroit Today: How Detroit is reimagining its bus system
Since the pandemic struck, Detroit’s transit agency has had low ridership, hiring challenges and consistent service disruptions. This is partly...
Detroit Today: How staffing shortages at the Wayne County Medical Examiner’s Office have led to broader issues
When someone dies under mysterious circumstances, that death is investigated by a medical examiner. In Detroit, that work is left...
Detroit Today: Michigan’s poet laureate Nandi Comer discusses her work
Nandi Comer has been a writer-in-residence in Detroit’s public schools and worked with various organizations, including InsideOut Literary Arts. Comer...
Detroit Today: Why Highland Park wants to enter bankruptcy
In a recent 3-2 resolution, Highland Park’s city council voted to request the small city of 8900 residents enter Chapter...
Detroit Today: Reparations task force members discuss redressing harms done to Black Detroiters
The idea of reparations dates back to the period after the Civil War — when some Congressional representatives advocated for...
Detroit Today: What Fox News’ Dominion settlement says about the media landscape
In the 1980s and 1990s, the 24-hour news cycle rose to prominence in the U.S. The biggest promoters of this...
Detroit Today: Pulitzer Prize winner Tyehimba Jess discusses the power of poetry
Tyehimba Jess is someone who does a lot of interpreting and experimenting with the messier spaces of the human condition....
Detroit Today: Michigan is constructing a new mental health facility in Northville
Over the last decade, we’ve had far-reaching conversations about mental health. We now discuss it in the context of our...