Detroit Today Hosts Robust Conversation on Housing Insecurity in Final Book Club Event
Detroit Today is concluding its summer community read of Matthew Desmond's book "Evicted", a Pulitzer Prize winning look at poverty and housing insecurity....
Detroit Fights Lead, Copper in Public School Water
Public school students in Detroit have been facing a heat wave. And they’ve been finding that the water fountains near...
Dr. Mona Hanna-Attisha: “I Grew Up Knowing Exactly What Injustice Could Be”
Jake Neher/WDET The faces of the Flint Water Crisis are, of course, the people who were exposed to lead tainted...
DPSCD Shuts Off Water In All Schools
Drinking water is being shut off at all Detroit public schools because the water in 16 of them was found...
Detroit Teen Writers to Share Work This Weekend
The Tuxedo Project This summer, The Tuxedo Project and Downtown Boxing Gym collaborated on a summer youth program that paired...
Nassar Loses Bid to Change Sentence
A federal appeals court has rejected disgraced former sports physician Larry Nassar’s attempt to reduce his 60-year sentence for child...
Wayne State Researchers Battle Lingering Effects of Syrian Civil War
Alex McLenon For more than a year the Stress Trauma and Anxiety Research Clinic at Wayne State University has worked...
Medical Researchers: Kids Were Not ‘Poisoned’ In Flint Water Crisis
Jake Neher/WDET When we think about the horrors of the Flint Water Crisis, the thing that often comes to mind first...
‘It Touches You…It’s Traumatic’–The Effects of Eviction and Housing Insecurity on Kids
WDET This Wednesday, the Detroit Today team is having another in-community book club meeting for their summer reading of Matthew Desmond’s Pulitzer...
StoryCorps Detroit: Is this Detroit Institution Under-Rated? [PHOTOS]
Sean Ryan Everett is the executive director of the Detroit Public Library Foundation and Crystal Powell is the board president....
Framed by WDET: The Sweet Science
Cydni Elledge Going beyond the lens of decay and revitalization, Framed by WDET offers a balanced perspective to the mainstream media’s common narrative...
Ed Deeb Leaves Lasting Mark on Detroit Youth, Belle Isle [VIDEO]
Tensions were high in Detroit when a grocery store owner and two teenagers were killed in 1980. Then-Detroit Mayor Coleman...