The Metro: Sounds Like Detroit artist Beth
It's hard to find a more home-grown Detroit artist than Beth. You can tell the second she lays her silky-sultry...
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The Metro: Sounds Like Detroit artist Beth
It's hard to find a more home-grown Detroit artist than Beth. You can tell the second she lays her silky-sultry...
The Metro: Education scholar Eve Ewing reimagines what intelligence looks like
Eve Ewing is an author, poet and a professor of sociology at the University of Chicago. Before she became a professor,...
The Metro: Meet Sounds Like Detroit Artist Tariq Gardner & the Evening Star
Tariq Gardner grew up in Detroit surrounded by music. His mother is renowned bassist Marion Hayden. Jazz was in the...
The Metro: Do the pros outweigh the cons with nuclear energy?
The Palisades nuclear plant in Covert Township got one step closer to reopening after federal regulators allowed the plant’s owners...
The Metro: Disability advocates say Detroit Clerk Janice Winfrey downplays voting barriers
The day before Detroit’s primary election, Detroit City Clerk Janice Winfrey told The Metro "less than five" polling places in...
The Metro: Scam likely—That traffic ticket text you just got isn’t real.
You can’t trust everything you see and hear nowadays, especially text messages and emails. One of the most common scams...
The Metro: What lies ahead for the Detroit Land Bank Authority?
The Detroit Land Bank Authority has made tremendous changes in Detroit since its conception in 2008. But without a subsidy...
The Metro: Collective of women architects reimagining Detroit through design
What happens when building a new space or renovating one means more than profits? What does it look like when...
The Metro: The Wright Museum celebrates 60 years
Founder Dr. Charles H. Wright was well known throughout the city, having worked in the maternity ward of the Hutzel...
The Metro: Michigan businesses brace for impact from tariff hikes
More tariffs on imported goods took effect last week. The federal government is making big money from tariff revenues, which...
The Metro: The case for more small-scale development projects in Detroit
When people left Detroit, the city lost a lot of momentum for development. Over the past decade, encouraging growth has...
The Metro: Student success program hosting jazz and poetry fundraiser
A Wayne State success program is providing an evening of jazz an poetry to raise money.The Crockett-Lumumba Scholars provides assistance...