Detroit School Board Candidates
Two seats on Detroit’s public school board are up for grabs in next week’s election. In the Detroit Public Schools...
Sascha Raiyn reports on education, children and families at 101.9 WDET. She has worked as a reporter/producer for the WSHU Public Radio Group serving Connecticut and New York, as an Investigative News Producer for WJBK Fox 2 and at the Detroit Free Press.
She is a native Detroiter who grew up listening to news and music programming on 101.9 WDET. She studied at the University of Michigan Dearborn.
Providing Teachers With the Tools to Discuss #METOO
The Southern Poverty Law Center’s Teaching Tolerance project develops resources for teachers and others who work with children to discuss...
Making Detroit the “Best Place to Raise a Family in One Generation”
The Detroit Children’s Fund is investing in a plan to overhaul education in the city. Executive Director Jack Elsey says...
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...
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...
StoryCorps Detroit Podcast: Not Ready to Die
StoryCorps Detroiter Roy Sims was diagnosed with a serious heart condition that doctors told him would be his demise. "It...
New Book Strives to Make Muslim American Children Feel At Home At Home
Shayma Mustafa Shayma Mustafa released her first book last week. It’s called Excuse Me Ma’am, Excuse Me Sir – I’m...
StoryCorps Detroit Podcast: “I Work Like a Woman”
StoryCorps Detroiter Carlena Murdy worked in an auto-parts factory at a time when being a woman in a trade-labor job...