Teaching Grit vs. Empathy

Laura Weber-Davis, WDET Picture this scenario… a child in a classroom can’t sit still or pay attention while a teacher...

Detroiters Hope for More Jobs, Inclusive Investment as Election Primary Looms

Dawn Uhl-Zifilippo/WDET Detroit voters are preparing to select the finalists who will vie for key elected positions during the city’s...

Officials say Home Ownership Might Be Possible …

Officials with the Michigan State Housing Development Authority are stepping up efforts to promote home ownership in Southeast Michigan and...

The History of Struggle in America in Defining Race and Society

  The word "patriotism" is often used in the context of abiding by the status quo, indicating an element of...

Author Discusses Her Time in and out of Prison

Laura Weber-Davis, WDET Putting your life back together after serving a term in prison is not easy, as we’ve heard...

12th and Clairmount Shows Scars And Signs of Hope

Editor's note: Pat Batcheller originally filed this report in 2007. It has been updated. Dawn Uhl-Zifilippo/WDET The intersection of 12th...

Head Start Programs Looking for Staff

Detroit’s largest early childhood learning program is looking for help. The Community Foundation of Southeast Michigan and Head Start plan...

1967 Was Decades Before They Were Born

With the 50th anniversary of the civil disturbance in Detroit happening this year, we've been hearing a lot of oral...

Teen Poets on 1967: “I taste fire in these streets.”

As Detroit wraps up this week commemorating the events of 1967, WDET wanted to bring you the voices of some youth...

How Significant was the 1968 World Series after the 1967 Uprising?

Walter P. Reuther Library, Archives of Labor & Urban Affairs In 1968 the Detroit Tigers won the World Series. It...

Detroit’s Brightmoor Neighborhood Struggled With Ripples of July 1967

Editor's note: John Notarianni wrote and produced this report for WDET. It aired in 2007. During Detroit's civil unrest in...

When Sports, Race, and Politics Collide

San Jose State University In fraught times, we, as human beings, often turn to a great relief from our woes...