“Jazz From Detroit” Author Mark Stryker Celebrates Jazz This Weekend at the DSO

The Detroit Symphony Orchestra is throwing a virtual jazz marathon this weekend. Courtesy of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra Starting at...

Dearborn’s Arab American Food Scene Adjusts to a COVID World

It’s been nearly one year since COVID-19 threw restaurants across Michigan into turmoil. In Dearborn, MI, the city’s thriving food scene...

Congressman Dan Kildee Talks PFAS Task Force, COVID Relief and Equality Act

This was a busy week in Washington. A COVID relief bill is still in the works, which the Senate parlimentarian decided yesterday would...

MSU Researchers Test Detroit Area Sewage for Coronavirus

Monitoring the spread of COVID-19 has been one of the biggest challenges facing public health officials during the pandemic. But...

“Detroit Stories” Brings Alice Cooper Back Home to the Motor City

When Alice Cooper talks about his new album “Detroit Stories,” out Friday, February 26, he swears that it’s not about...

What To Do If QAnon Conspiracies Are Creating Conflict In Your Family

Misinformation has been spreading rampantly throughout the United States over the last few years. The widespread adoption of conspiracy theories...

The Motown Musician Accelerator Is Looking To Support the Next Wave of Detroit Musicians

The latest round of the Motown Musician Accelerator initiative is now accepting applications. The 12-week intensive program is catered to...

Pandemic Journaling Project Captures the Complex Story of Life Amid COVID-19

Understanding feelings of sadness and grief caused by the pandemic is an ongoing struggle for many of us. After almost a year of...

Created Equal: Eddie Glaude Unpacks the Racism in American Exceptionalism

Season Three of the podcast Created Equal explores “Writers on Race: From Ralph Ellison to Colson Whitehead,” and features some of the most...

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...