Downriver Communities Hardest Hit by Opioid Crisis
New analysis shows several of Metro Detroit’s Downriver communities are experiencing higher rates of opioid overdoses. Data analytics from...
Detroiters Remember Doctor King’s Assassination 50 Years Later
Doctor Martin Luther King, Junior was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee 50 years ago this week. It was a day few...
New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu’s New Book Explores Monuments, Race
New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu made national headlines last year when he had the confederate statues in his city removed....
RFK the Day After MLK Died: A Warning that Still Resonates
Quinn Klinefelter/WDET On the evening that Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated 50 years ago, Sen. Robert Kennedy gave...
Trump’s Border Fixation and What It Means for Immigrants
Jake Neher/WDET Immigration continues to be a hotly debated subject in the United States -- DACA, the proposed border wall, and now a group...
How Fundamental Is Race to Our Understanding of Ourselves and Our Politics?
Jake Neher/WDET Wednesday is the 50th anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s assassination. Ahead of that anniversary, Detroit Today explores the concept of...
First Black Major League Player? It Wasn’t Jackie Robinson. And The Story is Heartbreaking
Moses Fleetwood Walker Pop quiz! Who was the first black major league baseball player? If you said Jackie Robinson, you're wrong....
New Documentary Tracks Michigan Families Through Fraught Political Times
Jake Neher/WDET We've talked a lot about how Michigan was a bellwether state during the 2016 presidential election; a state that...
First American TV Reporter to Wear Hijab On-Screen Joins Detroit Today
Tahera Rahman If you were to picture in your mind what a TV news anchor or reporter looks like, what image...
What Will John Bolton Mean For American Foreign Policy?
Jake Neher/WDET Journalists have reported often over the past year or so that National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster was a...
Can ‘Cop Kitty’ and Other Social Media Campaigns Help Build Trust in Police Departments?
Jake Neher/WDET Police departments across the country face questions about their relationships with the communities they serve. That’s after a...
‘Blowing Open Misconceptions’: How Comic Books Push the Discussion About Race and Representation in America
Laura Weber Davis/WDET The Marvel superhero movie “Black Panther” has made more than one-billion dollars at the box office since...
