Snap Judgement Host Glynn Washington Talks Growing Up In A White Supremacist Cult In Michigan

Jake Neher, WDET Glynn Washington is the host of SNAP Judgement, the storytelling program set to a beat. Washington and SNAP...

Detroit Today Hosts Robust Conversation on Housing Insecurity in Final Book Club Event

In 2018, Detroit Today hosted a summer community read of Matthew Desmond's book "Evicted", a Pulitzer Prize winning look at poverty and...

“We’re the Richest Democracy With the Worst Poverty,” says EVICTED Author Matthew Desmond

John D. & Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Detroit Today with Stephen Henderson has spent much of 2018 reading with listeners, discussing some...

Former Head Of ACLU Of Michigan Talks About Her Big Year

Jake Neher/WDET Over two decades, Kary Moss turned the ACLU of Michigan from a tiny office in the Book Building...

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...

Black And Republican: What The Party Is (Or Isn’t) Doing To Attract Voters Of Color

Laura Weber-Davis, WDET A recent article on FiveThirtyEight.com asks the question, “Have Republicans Given Up on Winning Black Voters?” Author Perry...

Trump Rule Change Could Hurt Hundreds of Thousands of Immigrants in SE Michigan

Gracie Xavier, Michigan Global Talent Retention Initiative Over the past few years, we’ve had an intense debate in this country...

What Is Wayne State’s Role In Building Detroit’s Future?

Jake Neher/WDET Wayne State University powers a big part of Detroit’s economy, and has always done so. But as the...

Big Changes in Detroit’s Restaurant Scene, Including A Farewell to Hard Rock Cafe

Jake Neher/WDET As business and activity continues to expand in Downtown Detroit, the city’s food and restaurant industry is growing...

GM Decision on Poletown Plant Dredges Up Painful History in Hamtramck, Detroit

Jake Neher/WDET Thirty-eight years ago, the cities of Hamtramck and Detroit helped demolish a neighborhood to make way for the...

How Newspaper Ads Helped Perpetuate Slavery in Colonial America

Adverts 250       Healthy Negro Lad. About Seventeen years of age. To be sold. Esquire of the printers....

Judge Dismisses Lawsuit Against Marines in Death of Michigan Muslim Recruit

mcrdpi.marines.mil In 2016 Taylor native Raheel Siddiqui fell to his death from a third story building…after he was injured during...