Ahead of ‘Classical Roots’ Performance, DSO African American Fellows Talk POC in Classical Music

Sydney Spaw/WDET As the Detroit Symphony Orchestra prepares for its 41st annual Classical Roots Celebration, DSO musicians are reaching out...

“You Don’t See Many Black Women on the Wall”: Detroit Artist Sabrina Nelson Uses Public Art to Educate

COURTESY OF SABRINA NELSON Click the audio player to hear the full conversation. CultureShift airs weekdays from 12 p.m. to...

Milo Minute: Hamtramck Music Fest, The Air Up There, and Second Saturdays at POP + Offworld Arcade

Brian Rozman Click the audio player above to hear the full conversation. CultureShift airs weekdays 12 p.m. to 2 p.m....

How Concerned Should We Really Be About Our Data and Privacy Online?

Jake Neher/WDET Technology makes our lives a lot easier and faster. The phones that are constantly in our hands, for instance, are...

School Your Friends: Here’s How to Properly Pronounce ‘Paczki’

It's Fat Tuesday across the U.S., the day before the beginning of Lent for Catholics. Here in Metro Detroit, we...

Forty Years Later, These Seven Debut Albums Still Hold Up

Paste Magazine Click the audio player above to listen. CultureShift airs weekdays 12 p.m. to 2 p.m. on WDET 101.9FM Detroit public radio. From the...

New “Murals in the Market” Book Supports WDET’s Arts & Culture Coverage

1xRun Power your connection to Detroit and the world. Give right now at WDET.org. Over the past four years, the Murals...

Sam’s Jams: Brainstorm – Journey To The Light

Journey to the Light is the second album by the Detroit R&B group Brainstrom. It was released in 1978 on Tabu...

Effort Underway to Save Hamtramck Stadium with Help from Jack White

Jake Neher/WDET Hamtramck Stadium is one of the few remaining Negro League ballparks in America. There’s now an effort underway...

The Polar Bear Expedition: The Heroes of America’s Forgotten Invasion of Russia, 1918-1919 [AUDIO, TRANSCRIPT]

WDET recently aired a story about the Michigan Polar Bears — a group of soldiers who trained in Battle Creek and...

Hamtramck Music Fest Preview

Hamtramck Music Fest The Hamtramck Music Fest (HMF) returns for its sixth year next Thursday (March 7), kicking off three...

The ‘Silent Fight’ for Representation in Hip Hop for Women, LGBTQ Community

Gus Navarro/WDET Hip hop is one of America's most prominent art forms of empowerment. But it has also struggled with misogyny...