Olga Stella Talks Design in Detroit
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Will Trump’s Tweets Make A Difference for Michigan’s Jewish Voters?
Jake Neher/WDET Yesterday, Donald Trump tried his best to explain why his campaign sent out a Tweet attacking Hillary...
The Intersection: Lester Spence On Neoliberalism’s Effect on Black Politics
The oft-repeated Ronald Reagan mantra “government isn’t the solution, government is the problem” continues to resonate across the...
What Would Happen To Michigan If We Deported All Undocumented Immigrants?
"America has been made great again and again through immigrants, by immigrants," says Hayg Oshagan. Jake Neher/WDET The U.S. Supreme Court...
Make America Great Again? Like When?
Flickr Creative Commons Presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump has become notorious on the campaign trail for a ubiquitous -- if...
Obamacare Has Been A ‘Boon’ For Michigan Hospitals, Says DMC’s Conrad Mallett
Jake Neher/WDET This week Detroit Today has been looking at the effects of the Affordable Care Act since it was...
The Intersection: Focus: HOPE CEO Talks Tackling Poverty in Detroit
wjgomes FOCUS: Hope was one of the organizations founded after the 1967 uprising in Detroit. It's focused on racial healing...
The Intersection: Income Inequality in Michigan – Biggest Gap is Not In Metro Detroit
“What we see is I think what’s being seen around the country, which is poverty changing zip codes,” says Grand...
Chief James Craig Talks City Hall Evacuation and Policing in Detroit
WDET Detroit Police Chief James Craig addresses Monday's city hall security breach and discusses community policing with Stephen Henderson on Detroit Today. Craig addressed the...
Head of Michigan ACLU Wishes Flint Would be Bigger Focus For Mackinac Conference
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers/ Public Domain The head of Michigan's primary civil liberties advocacy group, ACLU of Michigan, says business...
The Intersection Ike McKinnon Shares Stories of Racism in 1960’s Detroit Police Department
Courtesy of the City of Detroit “My first night as a Detroit police officer… I was on the midnight shift...
The Intersection: What Does It Mean to Have Power?
Dorret, Flickr As part of WDET’s series examining the 1967 Kerner Report with the Detroit Journalism Cooperative this year, Detroit Today...
