Poetry Slam Champ: YaKuZa Moon Claims Citywide Title [POEMS]
Martha Dawson With poems about Navajo reservation life and the events of Detroit in 1967, 17-year-old YaKuZa Moon won the 2017 Detroit Youth...
A nine-month stint with The Associated Press brought Sandra to Detroit...27 years ago. She has a bachelor's in journalism and history from Indiana University, and along the way added two master's degrees, one in library and information science and another in public administration, both from Wayne State University. Sandra has worked for The (Toledo) Blade covering education/children's issues, Detroit’s Metro Times and FEMA, where she deployed to Louisiana to help coordinate/communicate about community rebuilding/planning efforts for/after disasters. Sandra has won awards for broadcast, print, digital and community engagement work from the Michigan Associated Press, the Michigan Association of Broadcasters, Association of Alternative Newsweeklies, State Bar of Michigan, Michigan Press Association and Society of Professional Journalists-Detroit chapter. WSU’s Public Administration program named her Alum of the Year in 2015 for her WDET work covering Detroit's bankruptcy. Sandra teaches adjunct faculty at Wayne State (political science) and UM-Dearborn (graduate public administration program). She volunteers with Big Brothers/Big Sisters of Metropolitan Detroit and with Freedom House Detroit. She loves her husband, dog, bicycle, usually in that order. Find her sailing on the Detroit River in her spare time.
“Crimmigration”: Michigan Man’s Case Heads to U.S. Supreme Court [AUDIO, MAP]
Click on the audio link above to hear the on-air version of this story. UPDATE: Author Sandra Svoboda discussed the...
Taking a Chance on Photography
As a student and Cass Corridor resident in the late 1970s and early 1980s, Bruce Harkness wandered the area...
Detroit Casino Revenue Up in January from a Year Ago [CHARTS]
Detroit’s three casinos' combined January revenue of $112 million was up from the same month a year, according to the...
National Civil Rights Groups Join Detroit Lawsuit
A group of national civil rights organizations are supporting a lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court in Detroit by the...
Hearing Cancelled in Detroit Lawsuit Against Immigration Executive Order
A federal judge in Detroit has cancelled a Monday hearing in a local lawsuit challenging President Trump’s executive order on...
v. Trump [MAP]
The Dearborn-based Arab American Civil Rights League, joined by Asian-American and Native American legal groups. A Colorado community college student...
Legal Challenges to Trump’s Immigration Policies [MAP, LAWSUITS]
Since President Trump issued his executive order on immigration and refugees, dozens of legal challenges have been filed in federal...
School Rivalry: Duggan Promises to Fight State Plans for Closures [MAP]
Mike Duggan made no secret of his opinion about the state’s proposed closure of city schools as he announced his run...
Duggan Seeks Re-Election
Promising to fight the state’s proposed closure of Detroit schools and celebrating the partnerships and progress made in the city,...
Civil Rights on the Line
For Rula Aoun, a federal judge’s order this week was the first step to overturning President Trump’s executive order on...
Federal Judge Halts Enforcement of Trump’s Immigration Order
A federal judge in Detroit has ordered the U.S. government to halt enforcement of parts of President Trump’s controversial immigration...