Congresswoman Debbie Dingell Talks DACA, Budget Showdown, and Auto Show

United States Congress Many members of Michigan's congressional delegation have been in town to check out the auto show this...

Sanctuary Churches in Detroit and Elsewhere Seek to Protect Immigrants

Jake Neher/WDET As Congress tries to put together a deal this week to address DACA and immigration, President Donald Trump...

“Black women are at the center of that struggle”: Recy Taylor’s Significant Story

  While accepting the Cecil B. Demille lifetime achievement award at the Golden Globes a week ago, Oprah Winfrey honored a...

Interfaith Gathering to Celebrate Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Ahead of MLK Day

Jake Neher/WDET Monday is Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day. On Sunday, members of three congregations here in Detroit will...

What Oprah 2020 Buzz Tells Us About Celebrity and Politics

Jake Neher/WDET Politics and celebrity are not natural bedfellows in America, but they are also not terribly estranged. They are...

State Launches New Tool for School Transparency

Michigan Department of Education Michigan parents now have a new tool to vet their child’s school. The state launched the...

Federal Judge Orders Bond Hearings for Iraqi Detainees as They Fight Deportation

Laura Weber Davis/WDET Hundreds of Iraqis who have been detained and are fighting deportation got some good news this week....

Author, Historian Heather Ann Thompson Talks Winning Pulitzer in 2017

Jake Neher/WDET In April this year, author and historian Heather Ann Thompson won the Pulitzer Prize for her chilling re-telling of...

‘Jon Stewart of the Arab World’ Bassem Youssef Talks Satire in 2017

Youtube This conversation originally aired on Detroit Today with Stephen Henderson on November 6, 2017 He’s been called the Jon...

Historian Tom Sugrue on Detroit’s Ascension, Decline and ‘Detroit’ the Film

Jake Neher/WDET This conversation originally aired on Detroit Today with Stephen Henderson on July 26, 2017 On Tuesday night, there...

StoryCorps Detroit: Your Vibe

Lauren Hood recalls the early 1990s rave culture in Detroit and Windsor that Adriel Thornton introduced her to when the...

StoryCorps Detroit: “It seems like fewer of us make it now.”

NEED TO ADD AUDIO AND PUBLISH. In 1967, Bill Williams was a teenager living with his extended family not far from...