Detroit Free Press film festival expands in third year
Bill, Flickr Detroit Today host Stephen Henderson spoke with organizers for the Detroit Free Press' third-annual Freep Film Festival. Artistic Director...
U.S. Attorney Talks Charges in DPS Kickback Scheme
Alan Alfaro/Creative Commons This week, 13 Detroit Public Schools administrators and a supplies vendor were charged with bribery in a...
New Lab Aims to “Spark” Interest in Science
A new exhibit coming to the Michigan Science Center lets visitors become inventors. The Spark!Lab is a hands-on area designed to...
The Intersection: What Does It Mean to Have Power?
Dorret, Flickr As part of WDET’s series examining the 1967 Kerner Report with the Detroit Journalism Cooperative this year, Detroit Today...
African-American Political Power in Michigan [CHARTS]
In the wake of violence in Newark and Detroit during July 1967, President Lyndon B. Johnson charged his Commission on...
US Attorney Charges 13 Detroit Public Schools Administrators With Bribery
The US Attorney for the Eastern District of Michigan is charging a dozen current and former Detroit Public School principals...
The Batcave Is In Metro Detroit
Google says it has done something super villains have wanted to do for years – find the location of Batman’s...
Is There a Student Debt Crisis?
Flickr For several years now we've been hearing about a ballooning of student loan debt in America that's crushing young...
Sen. Gary Peters Talks About the Political Culture in Washington D.C.
Photo Courtesy of the Office of Gary Peters Detroit Today Host Stephen Henderson speaks with Michigan senator Gary Peters about...
The Progressive Underground Show 163 (Tribute to Malik Taylor aka Phife Dawg)
Jive Records On tonight's episode of The Progressive Underground, we do a tribute to the late Malik Taylor aka "Phife...
Reveal: New Day Dawning on The Night Shift
Every day, invisible armies of men and women head to work, where they’re tasked with doing something that helps...
This American Life: It’ll Make Sense When You’re Older
Prologue Kids do not like getting told it’ll make sense when they’re older. They’re pretty sure the grown-ups are wrong,...