StoryCorps Detroit: Your Vibe
Lauren Hood recalls the early 1990s rave culture in Detroit and Windsor that Adriel Thornton introduced her to when the...
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.
StoryCorps Detroit: Yellowman
In this episode of the StoryCorps Detroit podcast, we hear the story of how Ken met Lori. StoryCorps Ken remembers...
StoryCorps Detroit: “It seems like fewer of us make it now.”
NEED TO ADD AUDIO AND PUBLISH. In 1967, Bill Williams was a teenager living with his extended family not far from...
StoryCorps Detroit: A Front Row Seat to the Looting of 1967
In this StoryCorps Detroit segment, 82-year-old Clarice Rodgers asks her son, Curtis Rodgers, Jr., what he was up to when...
StoryCorps Detroit: Poetry and Parenting
Detroit-based poet jessica Care moore first gained national attention for her poetry performances when she won five weeks in a...
StoryCorps Detroit: “Much better than everything people said you were”
Jennifer Smith is the founder of Closing the Gap, a nonprofit that uses personalized mentorship to help Detroit students enter...
In November, Tax-Foreclosure Notices Were Dispersed in Wayne County. What Happens Next?
Beginning this month, yellow notices have been going out to properties across Wayne County to tell homeowners with unpaid taxes and...
You Might Not Have to Pay Your Property Taxes
The philanthropic arm of Quicken Loans has teamed up with the nonprofit United Community Housing Coalition to try to reduce...
StoryCorps Detroit Special
This is a special hour of StoryCorps pieces recorded right here in Detroit and produced by WDET. Click on the...
Detroit Voters Concerned About “Two Detroits”
In advance of the Nov. 7 general election, WDET has been asking voters how Detroit is doing and what elected...
This is A Drill: Poll Worker Training in Detroit
WDET/Laura Herberg It was standing room-only in the old administration building at Wayne County Community College’s Northwest Campus. Forty people...
Stories and Objects About “Them”
A historic movie poster featuring Felix the Cat and a cartoon image of an angry Arab man wielding a small...