Is My Water Safe to Drink? In Some Communities, There’s No Easy Answer

Marcia Cotton has lived in Highland Park for most of her life. She had her home tested for lead in...

Senator Gary Peters On Impeachment, Climate Change, and Michigan Politics

The impeachment inquiry into President Trump is commanding headlines and consuming national politics. While the turmoil in Washington consumes the discourse,...

Center Line Voters Choose Delikta, Reid for Council

A 23-year-old technician is the newest member of Center Line's city council. Aaron Delikta topped a slate of four candidates...

Author Steve Luxenberg On Racial Strife from Plessy v. Ferguson To Modern Detroit

Jake Neher/WDET Author and hometown Detroiter Steve Luxenberg is back in town promoting his book "Separate," which explores the human stories behind the...

New University of Michigan Research Center in Detroit Bets on Keeping Talent in State

Laura Weber-Davis, WDET University of Michigan alum and Manhattan real estate developer Stephen Ross is betting on Detroit, and Dan...

In City Council Election, Highland Park Bets on Better Representation to Heal Divisions

Highland Park This article was updated 11:16 a.m. 11/5/2019 Highland Park, Mich., like most municipalities in Wayne County, has had all...

Southwest Detroit Time Bank Lets People Trade Favors

Have you ever heard the old adage, "time is money”? For the last decade, an organization based in Southwest Detroit...

Flint’s First Poet Laureate On The Power of Literary Arts: “Flint Is Rising, Don’t Count Us Out”

When is the last time you sat down and wrote a poem, a story or a letter just for fun?...

Created Equal, Season 2: Thomas Sugrue

Thomas Sugrue, page 120, is a  Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis and History at NYU. A specialist in twentieth-century American politics,...

Created Equal, Season 2: ACLU’s Curt Guyette On Running His Own Flint Water Tests

"The question became: How do you get to what is going on conclusively? I proposed: Do our own tests." -...

Created Equal, Season 2: Stephen Henderson on How Disinvestment, Poverty and Emergency Management Created a Crisis

Hosted by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Stephen Henderson, "Created Equal" pulls apart the strings of inequality that run through the American...

Created Equal, Season 2: Flint Residents “Have a Voice, They Just Didn’t Have a Platform.”

"These are the people who haven’t been heard. I never say voiceless, they have a voice, they just didn’t have...