Beauty Standards Changing in 2019, Especially for Women of Color
Gus Navarro/WDET In 2019, beauty standards are being dismantled, dissected and redefined. But to look at where we are right...
Kym Worthy: If Flint Investigation Was Done Properly From Beginning ‘It Would Not Still Be Going On’
Jake Neher/WDET It’s been almost ten years since the Wayne County Prosecutor’s Office found more than 11-thousand untested rape kits...
New Art Exhibit Inspired By Curtis Mayfield’s Music Explores Race and Identity
UHURU Click the audio player above to listen to the full conversation. CultureShift airs weekdays from 12 p.m. to 2...
SAT Adversity Score: Can the College Board Solve the Privilege Problem?
The Scholastic Aptitude Test or SAT as it’s commonly called was invented back in 1926 by a eugenicist who created...
Teens Say The Suburbs Are Depressing. Here’s What To Do About It.
Jake Neher/WDET There's a lot of conversation surrounding the way we design the places we live — our cities, our towns and...
New Podcast Rethinks Advice Column for People of Color
Advice is everywhere in American society and culture. It’s on the radio, on TV, in magazines and newspapers, and we...
Detroit Myth Busters: Researchers Illuminate, Challenge City’s Civil Rights and Post-War History
Jake Neher/WDET Civil rights and the black power movement in Detroit What do you know about Detroit’s civil rights history?...
Characters Surrounding Landmark Plessy v. Ferguson Case Have Fascinating Roots in Detroit
Credit: Josh Luxenberg Most people know at least a little about Plessy v. Ferguson, the 19th-century Supreme Court ruling that...
Flint Native Tunde Olaniran Reflects on Big Year for His Music
Gus Navarro/WDET Our region has been known for generations as a hub of innovation in music. Artists from our area...
The Past, Present, and Future of the Food Economy in Detroit
AnnaMarie Sysling/WDET Detroit has a long history of food insecurity in the city’s black neighborhoods. One year after the 1967...
A Former Inmate and a Prison Abolitionist Weigh In on Whether We Should Eliminate Prisons
Dr. Ruth Wilson Gilmore Is prison necessary? That’s the question posed by a recent New York Times piece spotlighting Dr....
Remembering the Life and Legacy of Judge Damon Keith
Detroit Public TV A civil rights giant and legal icon passed away early Sunday morning. Judge Damon Keith was 96....