Open Competition for Screenwriters of Diversity in the Film Industry

The DuSable Panthers may have been cheated out of the Illinois State High School championship in 1954 based on the...

Director and Detroit Native Mike Binder Talks New Thriller “Keep Calm”

Binder Born in Detroit and raised in Birmingham, Michigan, Mike Binder is a director, screenwriter, producer and now a novelist....

New Plans for Michigan and Trumbull Site

After years of passionate and sometimes heated debate, new plans are being finalized for the site of the old Tiger Stadium. The...

Pot Shops Hamstrung by Federal Banking Laws Prohibiting Deposits

While driving through Detroit it’s likely that you’ve passed buildings with a big green medical cross outside.  It’s part of...

Rob Reinhart’s Essential Music: 1-30-16

Next time on RREM, new Motor City music from Chris Bathgate, and JR JR, plus Anderson. Paak to Peter Frampton...

How Many Homeless in Detroit?

Volunteers and staff from homeless organizations across Detroit plan to comb the streets tonight (WEDS) looking for those without shelter....

Examining Rapper Kendrick Lamar’s Work Through a Literary Lens

Flickr Since its inception 40 years ago, Hip-Hop has been populated with rappers speaking truth to power from the street-level...

Music Hall Needs A Million $ to Stay Solvent

  In the shadow of Comerica Park and Ford Field sits one of Detroit’s oldest entertainment venues. Music Hall Center...

How Photography Can Change The Way We Feel

Regina Boone/ Time Magazine Whether it's an exhausted woman sitting beneath a dusty lean-two with her kids during the Great...

The Progressive Underground Show 154

    On tonight's episode of the Progressive Underground, we bump tracks from Monique Bingham (pictured), Louie Vega, Miguel Migs,...

Rob Reinhart’s Essential Music: 1-23-16

This week on RREM, Motor City music from Mayer Hawthorne, Chris Bathgate, and Royal Oak's late great Glenn Frey. 2-5...

Are Black and White Films Worth Watching?

What would your kids say if you told them you were going to watch a black-and-white movie together? Would they...