New Art Installation Is A Surreal Trip Through the City’s Boat Culture
Sarah Blanchette If you wander the former warehouse district less than a block from the Aretha Franklin Amphitheatre, there’s a 25,000-square-foot...
Murder in America is a Million Dollar Problem. One Researcher has a Solution
More than 17,000 people were murdered in the United States in 2017. And last year, according to the Detroit Police...
Malcolm Gladwell on New Season of Revisionist History Podcast
Revisionist History/iTunes Malcolm Gladwell has made a career of making us think twice by taking what we think is true and...
See the Evolution of the Stevie Wonder Mural Downtown
Ryan Patrick Hooper London-based artist Richard Wilson has spent the last year in Detroit putting his paint brush to a...
“I Saw Hate”: Claire Gasamagera Recalls Escaping Rwandan Genocide
From the live stage in Detroit to earbuds everywhere, WDET presents Season 3 of the Twisted Storytellers Podcast. The podcast...
Proposed Detroit Ordinance Would Measure City’s Greenhouse Gas Emissions
There's a new effort to improve Detroit's environmental standards coming from Detroit City Councilman Scott Benson. Earlier this month, Benson...
Stephen Henderson: The President’s Tweets Are Racist. Now, How Do We Respond?
No one should be surprised by the tweets President Donald Trump unleashed over the weekend, telling several progressive minority Congresswomen that...
Ecological Grief: Learning to Deal with Climate Change and Species Loss
With extreme weather patterns becoming the new normal, species loss, climate devastation and expert voices telling us that in the not too distant future many of us...
Walking Beniteau Street in the Prelude to Fiat Chrysler’s Plant Expansion
Laura Herberg/WDET Walking down the sidewalk of Beniteau Street on Detroit’s eastside with a shotgun microphone covered in a fuzzy...
Inhabitants of the Marshall Islands Fear Cultural Loss. One Michigander is Helping Out
The Marshall Islands are a ring-shaped collection of Pacific islands made of coral and sit about six feet above sea...
Renowned Detroit Jazz Musician Phil Ranelin Returns for 80th Birthday Performances
Meta Stange/WDET Renowned Detroit jazz musician and composer Phil Ranelin and saxophonist Wendell Harrison formed Tribe Records in the early 1970's,...
Detroit Photojournalist Tells Stories of War and Migration
Detroit photojournalist Kenny Karpov has been back in the city since January, after spending the past several years documenting war-torn and ravaged...