U.S. Reaches 500,000 COVID Deaths, Toll Will Continue To Rise Despite Vaccine Rollout

Earlier this week, the United States reached a sobering new marker in our pandemic reality: COVID-19 has now killed 500,000 people...

Two Detroit Restaurant Owners Share Why They Support a $15 Minimum Wage

That idea of raising the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour has gained traction since the election of President Joe...

Black Hockey Players Take Center Ice In “Soul On Ice” Documentary

Growing up as a Black kid in Toronto in the late 1970s, documentary filmmaker Damon Kwame Mason didn’t see a...

COVID Relief Delay at State Capitol Hurting Michigan Schools, Vaccine Efforts

More than $5 billion in federal money for COVID relief for Michigan is in limbo as lawmakers at the state...

New Digital Democratic Processes Could Hinder Activists From Speaking Out When It Matters Most

The pandemic has fundamentally changed how we interact with one another, our work and our elected officials. Many public bodies are...

Organizational Psychologist’s New Book Explores Power of Rethinking What We Think We Know

Americans are more divided and polarized than ever before. Calls for unity have intensified as the Biden administration takes office,...

What the Texas Power Grid Failure Can Teach Us About Utility Regulation

Amid a week of record-breaking frigid temperatures in the southern part of the United States, more than four million Texans are...

A New Outdoor Concert Venue Arrives in Downtown Detroit This Spring

A new outdoor concert venue is landing in downtown Detroit starting this spring. The socially-distanced design of the space is...

Data Concerning COVID and Schools Points To Possibility of Safe Return To Classrooms

Earlier this year, Gov. Whitmer urged schools to offer in-person learning options by March 1.  Some parents worry it's too soon...

At One of Detroit’s Oldest Art Institutions, A First — An All-Black Group Exhibition

When the writer and philosopher W.E.B DuBois wrote “The Souls of Black Folk” in 1903, his observations of being Black...

Rep. Dingell Talks Trump Acquittal and How Country Moves Forward

Donald Trump is the first president to be impeached twice while in office. He is also the first president to...

How Do We Talk About Fat Discrimination? Author Aubrey Gordon Has An Idea

It’s time to have a real and intentional conversation about fat, the look of real body-positive advocacy and the stigmas...