Laura Herberg is a civic life reporter for Outlier Media, telling the stories about people inhabiting the Detroit region and the issues that affect us here.

Catholic College in Detroit is Offering Classes to an All-Muslim Group

WDET/Laura Herberg Steve Mustapha Elturk is getting his Master of Arts in Social Justice at Marygrove College, a small Catholic...

Speed Humps Now Allowed on Detroit Streets

For Detroit residents with problems of drivers speeding down neighborhood streets, a solution is coming. Earlier this year, WDET reported on...

The Future of Operations at the Rouge Park Golf Course in Detroit

WDET/Laura Herberg In the 1990s, golfers could choose from six municipal golf courses in Detroit: Belle Isle, Chandler Park, Palmer Park,...

CuriosiD: Who Designed the Rouge Park Golf Course?

  WDET listener, Jeff Currier, is a 32-year-old golf enthusiast from Ferndale. He asked CuriosiD: "Who designed the Rouge Park...

StoryCorps Detroit: How I Became Muslim

Lehman Robinson decided to become Muslim when he was a teenager, working at a secular Michigan summer camp. StoryCorps In...

StoryCorps Detroit Podcast: How I Became Muslim

  StoryCorps Lehman Robinson converted to Islam when he was a teenager working at a secular Michigan summer camp. In...

StoryCorps Detroit Podcast: Someone I Could Be Myself With

    StoryCorps Detroiter Spencer Barefield first met his wife, Barbara, while playing at Cobb’s Corner, a now shuttered jazz...

StoryCorps Detroit Podcast: Is this Detroit Institution Under-Rated? [PHOTOS]

StoryCorps Sean Ryan Everett is the executive director of the Detroit Public Library Foundation and Crystal Powell is the board...

StoryCorps Detroit Podcast: How is the Force Today?

  StorCorp   When Detroit Institute of Arts Security Guard Roderick Walker greets the Museum's Director, Salvador Salort-Pons, he asks an...

Prepare to Vote: Transit and the Candidates for Michigan Governor [VIDEO, TRANSCRIPTS]

  VIEW FULL DPTV PLAYLIST OF CANDIDATE RESPONSES ON TRANSIT  Is transit YOUR issue - whether you're for or against...

StoryCorps Detroit Podcast: Chalk Drawings on the Hudson Building

StoryCorps Maurice Greenia, Jr. is an artist and performer from Detroit. In the mid-1990s, he decided to brighten up the boarded-over display windows...

StoryCorps Detroit Podcast: What Happens When a Father is Deported?

  StoryCorps Diana Lara’s father was deported to Mexico when she was thirteen years old. Lara, her mother, and her...