Musicians With Mental Illness Strike a Chord in New Documentary

A new documentary called “Orchestrating Change” chronicles two years in the life of a first-of-its-kind orchestra made for musicians with...

Hip Hop Public Health Turns Up the Volume on COVID-19 Safety

Hip Hop Public Health is a non-profit organization founded in 2006 with the mission of helping increase knowledge of healthy...

Duggan, Tlaib say Feds Caused “Intentional Undercount” in Detroit Census

Mayor Mike Duggan and Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib are challenging Detroit's Census count, citing a lack of coordination by the Census...

Metro Detroit Immigrant Communities Weigh In on 2020 Election

According to the Pew Research Center, about one in ten people who are eligible to vote in the United States' 2020...

Wayne County Schools Ask Voters to Renew County-Wide Millage

Wayne County schools are turning to voters to renew the Wayne County Regional Educational Service Agencies Enhancement Millage. If passed,...

Detroit Needs Trees to Combat Effects of Climate Change

Environmental writer Brian Allnutt has written a new piece in Planet Detroit exploring the Detroit canopy and the relationship that Detroit...

Coulter, Kowall Seek the Late Patterson’s Oakland County Executive Seat

This year’s race for Oakland County Executive is significant. Not because of who is on the ballot but because of who...

The Role of America’s Hispanic and Latinx Vote In 2020

As we inch closer to Election day, the WDET newsroom and Detroit Today are continuing to explore how the 2020 presidential...

Michigan Voters Vow to Cast Ballots In Person Despite Pandemic

President Trump has claimed repeatedly, without providing evidence, that massive absentee voting creates the potential for massive voter fraud. It’s...

Essential Cooking: Remembering Julia Child, an American Culinary Icon

Julia Child is an American culinary icon. Her magnetic personality was larger than life, and her passion for combining education and entertainment...

These Detroit Area Neighbors Agree On Most Things — Except at the Polls

As Election Day draws ever closer, Detroit Today host Stephen Henderson has been checking the political, social and cultural temperature...

London Artist Creates ‘Human Atlas’ of Detroit

London photographer Marcus Lyon has built an artistic practice around creating multi-sensory human atlases that map out the DNA lineage...