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Citizen Vox: Voter says Detroit needs to steer more funding towards public transit

Quinn Klinefelter July 7, 2025

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Detroit Police Chief Todd Bettison speaks at the podium during a news conference about the city's crackdown on juvenile violence, July 7, 2025.
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Detroit Evening Report: Duggan, Detroit police announce ‘major crackdown’ on juvenile violence

Russ McNamara, Nargis Rahman July 7, 2025
Detroit artist Lakeisha Johnson, aka Ideeyah.
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The Progressive Underground Pick of the Week: ‘20/20’ by Ideeyah

Chris Campbell July 7, 2025
Kevyn Orr giving speech
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Rhodes And Orr Say Trillions In Unfunded Liabilities Exist Nationwide

Station Programming March 2, 2015

Last Wednesday Crain's Detroit Business named former Emergency Manager Kevyn Orr and Judge Steven Rhodes as the 2014 Detroit Newsmakers of...

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  • Detroit Today with Stephen Henderson
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News Junkies Roundup: Downtown Traffic, Bentivolio’s Bankruptcy, And Voting At 16

Station Programming March 2, 2015

A weekly panel of news junkies dissects the latest headlines. Topics include the weekend's crazy downtown traffic, Former Congressman Bentivolio filing...

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InsideOut Youth Poets
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  • Detroit Today with Stephen Henderson
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Detroit Youth Poets Perform MLK Remembrance Poem

Station Programming January 19, 2015

WDET Every year teen poets from the InsideOut Literary Arts Project write and perform a poem about race, society and civil rights,...

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Detroit Water Works Park
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CuriosiD: The History of Detroit’s Water Works Park

Annamarie Sysling November 6, 2014

In this installment WDET’s Anna Sysling answers a question that was asked by listener Barbara Williams: “I’ve always been fascinated by...

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Rebekkah poet
  • Inheriting Detroit
  • Youth

Detroit youth poets describe the streets they walk each day

Shelby Jouppi October 17, 2014

Quintin Pope Four middle school students at Marcus Garvey Academy on the city’s East side shared poems and photographs of...

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ISNA Image
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#ISNAstories: Understanding the Line Between Faith and Culture in the U.S.

Courtney Hurtt September 30, 2014

  Last month over 15,000 people attended the 51st Annual Islamic Society of North America (ISNA) Convention in Detroit’s Cobo Center. The...

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A sign welcoming guests to the city of Hamtramck.
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Why do Hamtramck and Highland Park exist inside the city of Detroit?

WDET News September 19, 2014

This story is part of our new project called CuriosiD.Its goal is to take your questions about metro Detroit and...

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Brave New Voices, Terrel S. Morrow
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  • Detroit Today with Stephen Henderson
  • Inheriting Detroit
  • Youth

Youth Poet on the Strength and Frustration of “Detroit”

Station Programming August 11, 2014

In our continuing series “Inheriting Detroit," which looks at aspects of life in Detroit through the eyes of youth poets,...

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  • Culture & Music
  • Youth

Youth Poet on “Lumberjacks” and Family Trees

Station Programming June 13, 2014

This Sunday is Father’s Day. More than 10 percent of households with children in Detroit are headed up by single...

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Parent and child holding hand
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  • Youth

Youth Poet Celebrates a “Sacred Woman”

Station Programming May 9, 2014

This Sunday is Mother's Day. Motherhood is particularly significant in the city of Detroit, where about 60 percent of households with children...

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XTL Hamtramck
  • Community & Quality of Life
  • Crossing the Lines

Islamic Call To Prayer Sounding Sweeter In Hamtramck

Quinn Klinefelter April 30, 2014

By tradition, the Islamic call to prayer occurs five times each day. But in the past year Carol Marsh, a...

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Joe Biden
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Biden Says Nation Bet on Autoworkers and Won

Quinn Klinefelter January 16, 2014

U.S. Vice President Joe Biden says Detroit’s auto industry is healthy again, years after a federal bailout helped save car...

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