The Fostering Futures Scholarship Trust Fund Aims to Help Students Formerly in Foster Care

The Fostering Futures Scholarship Trust Fund has been around since 2012, aiding students who have been in Michigan’s foster care...

Grappling With the Tarnished Legacies of Former Icons

An advisory committee at the University of Michigan has recommended that the university remove the name of Fielding Yost from...

Crescent Academy Celebrates 30 Years in Canton

Crescent Academy International in Canton is celebrating its 30th anniversary this year. The private Islamic school serves children from 1 year...

Detroit Will Wake Up to a Partial Solar Eclipse on June 10. Here’s How to See the “Ring of Fire”

A partial solar eclipse will be in progress when the sun rises over southeast Michigan just before 6 a.m. Thursday, June...

Confidential Tipline for Students to Report Guns, Mental Health Crises Sees Big Drop in 2020

The state’s confidential OK2SAY hotline for students received fewer tips last year due to the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a...

Detroit’s Black Middle Class Is Disappearing

Detroit has a middle class that’s nearly unobtainable for many African American and Latinx people, while economic growth continues for whites....

Detroit-Based Majority-Women Race Car Team Drives Toward Historic Qualifying at Indy 500

Beth Paretta has been involved in motor sports for years. She had an idea that an all-women’s IndyCar team competing...

Introducing “Science of Grief,” A New Podcast from WDET and Science Gallery Detroit

Young adults are facing a mental health epidemic in the United States, and the new Science of Grief Podcast from...

Town Halls to Address Creating an Equitable Pandemic Recovery in Detroit

A new report details the extent of the COVID-19 pandemic's disproportionate effects on Black Detroit residents. The report found that Michigan has...

Breaking Down Sen. Tim Scott’s Claim That “America Is Not A Racist Country”

On April 28, Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.) gave a response to President Joe Biden’s first address to a joint session...

Michigan Needs To Grow Faster. How Can We Attract More People?

Michigan will lose a congressional district next year. That’s after new Census results showed Michigan hasn’t been growing as fast...

Young Radio Broadcasters Keep Plymouth-Canton Students Connected Through COVID-19

This story is part of WDET’s Crossing the Lines: Canton Battles COVID series, reconnecting listeners with the people they met and issues they...