News Of The Week and Desiree Cooper’s “Know The Mother”

Des Cooper "We're all looking north, like where can we run?"  "I've always, since I was a little girl, wanted...

The Intersection: An Introduction

Nearly 50 years after a police raid at 12th and Clairmount streets ignited violence and carnage, the Detroit Journalism Cooperative...

The Intersection: 1967 and the Arab-American Community

As part of the Detroit Journalism Cooperative project "The Intersection," WDET's Sandra Svoboda hosted a conversation on Detroit Today about...

The Intersection: A Detroiter Tells Her Story

During Detroit's most infamous summer, Melba Boyd was a newly graduated Detroit Pershing High School alum. The 1967 rebellion, as...

Michigan’s Primary Results: Predictable and Surprising

Flickr WDET's Laura Weber Davis and Sandra Svoboda are joined by Brandon Dillon the Chairman of the Michigan Democratic Party on Detroit Today, to...

Joan Belgrave: Marcus Belgrave Scholarship

Jameziecakes This morning, Detroit Today's Laura Weber-Davis speaks with Joan Belgrave about the creation of a scholarship in her late...

Infrastructure and the Presidency

  Sandra Svoboda The water crisis in Flint has helped focus the presidential campaign on the national issue of aging infrastructure:...

Track the Presidential Delegates [GRAPH]

  Explore these charts to see how many delegates each presidential candidate has claimed to date. We'll update them as the...

The New DPS Superintendent Speaks Out

Courtesy of Detroit Public Schools The so-called transition manager for Detroit Public Schools -- former Bankruptcy Judge Steven Rhodes --...

Voters: A Wide Range of Factors Figure Into Decisions [VIDEO]

Voters choose their candidates by political party affiliation, personality and other issues.  WDET wanted to know what the "other issues" were,...

Are the 2016 Primary Candidates Acting Presidential?

WyoFile WyoFile With the Michigan primary tomorrow, many voters are still undecided as to which candidate they will support.  That's...

Michigan’s Whirlwind Primary Election Week

  marist.edu This morning Detroit Today's Stephen Henderson speaks with Detroit News political reporter Chad Livengood to debrief last night's democratic...