Youth Employment and Opportunity in Detroit

Stephen Henderson talks with Frank McGhee, Unit Director of the Youth Initiatives Project for Neighborhood Service Organization, Reggie Williams, Unit...

Experiments in Residence: Spread Art Announces a Family-Oriented Residency

"It is very, very, very difficult to find dedicated space, mentally as well as physically, for performing, creating or producing your...

Fentanyl, Cocaine, and Heroin in Southeast Michigan

Stephen Henderson meets with Dr. Calvin Trent, vice president for programs for the Detroit Recovery Project, to discuss the prescription...

Life Remodeled Renovates Osborn High School and Neighborhood

Nearly 400 blocks of an east side neighborhood are getting an upgrade this summer. The non-profit organization Life Remodeled  is making...

Broken City Poets Documentary

WDET's Sandra Svoboda meets with Niema Jordan, program manager for the Off/Page Project, and Nichole Christian, director of communications and...

Detroit Group Offering Free Swim Lessons at Belle Isle

The YMCA is offering free swimming lessons to children on Belle Isle this summer. The organization Detroit Swims plans to teach...

Michigan’s Heroin Epidemic

Every day somewhere across Michigan at least one person overdoses on heroin.  The number of non-fatal hospitalizations due to overdoses...

Parents Petition to Keep Guns Out of Schools

There’s a gun battle brewing in Ann Arbor with the courts and state legislature involved.  The controversy started (a few...

Outside Perspective From NPR’s Michel Martin

Ali Lapetina for NPR News Travis Wright is joined by NPR's Michel Martin in this reprise broadcast of NPR Presents Michel...

Is New Religious Adoption Legislation Discriminatory?

Stephen Henderson talks with Douglas Laycock, Professor of Constitutional Law and Religious Studies at the University of Virginia, about Michigan’s new...

Proposed Fireworks Curfew: Will It Promote Safety or Exclude Detroit’s Kids?

<Asset 888: size small, side left, caption ''. Error loading preview> Every summer during the annual Detroit Ford Fireworks, the...

This Year’s State Fair to be Bigger than Last Year’s [MAP]

2015 will be the third year that the Michigan State Fair has been held since a private company took it...