Can Nikolai Vitti Lead Detroit Schools Toward Stability, Success?
Sascha Raiyn Nikolai Vitti will be the first permanent superintendent to lead the new Detroit Public Schools Community District. In...
Tribe Working to Make Sure Money Isn’t Obstacle in School Mascot Debate
Belding Area Schools Many schools in Michigan have grappled with whether they should dump Native American mascots and nicknames. Plenty...
Michigan Supreme Court Hears Cases on Criminal and Civil Rights
Michigan Supreme Court The Michigan Supreme Court convened in Lansing this week. Whether or not a student can sue a...
Digitally Recreating Detroit’s Black Bottom Neighborhood
Jake Neher/WDET The Black Bottom neighborhood was once the epicenter of Black life and entertainment in Detroit. Black Bottom was...
The Unexpected Challenges of Fixing Up A Cheap House in Detroit
Jake Neher/WDET A few years ago a young man from Adrian published a fascinating piece on the website Buzzfeed about...
UM Professor Wins Pulitzer Prize: Hear Heather Ann Thompson’s WDET Interview Here
Blood In The Water University of Michigan history professor Heather Ann Thompson won a Pulitzer Prize this week for her nonfiction book...
What Can Justice Department Learn from Detroit’s Consent Decrees?
Jake Neher/WDET U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions filed a memo in early April for the Department of Justice to review...
The Wall Speaks: Voices of the Unheard
The Wall Speaks is a complex and deeply moving exhibition by visual artist Wojtek Sawa. Through bricks, interactivity, large translucent photos...
Italian Film Festival Opens in Detroit
Over a dozen films produced in Italy come to Detroit this month as part of the Italian Film Festival-Detroit. The...
Should Dearborn’s Orville Hubbard Statue Stand Despite Racist Legacy?
Jake Neher/WDET A statue depicting the city of Dearborn's longest-serving mayor resurfaced this week along with the decades-long controversy surrounding...
Rep. Maxine Waters on African Americans, Women, and the Democratic Party
congress.gov Congresswoman Maxine Waters has been in the news recently after Fox News Host Bill O’Reilly commented on her hair...
Former Haitian First Lady Visits Detroit On Friday with Rep. Maxine Waters
Jake Neher/WDET Few countries in the world have faced as much hardship as Haiti. The Haitian people had been forced...