Deaf Hip Hop Artist Sean Forbes and Composer Jake Bass Collaborate with the DSO for The Deaf & Loud Symphonic Experience

Ann Delisi talks with Detroiters, Sean Forbes and Jake Bass about how, with Sean being deaf, they create music together and the...

The Detroit Urban Craft Fair Returns to the Masonic Temple This Weekend

https://www.facebook.com/handmadedetroit/?eid=ARC4UIvZISbTgv When it began, the Detroit Urban Craft Fair was one of the first local showcases for the new handmade...

Inside the Orchestras of Auschwitz

Christopher Boyes / University of Michigan Click the audio player to listen. CultureShift airs weekdays at 12 p.m. on WDET...

Real Trees or Fake Trees? An Age Old Holiday Debate

Jake Neher/WDET It’s become a national Christmas tradition to debate the virtues of real trees and fake trees. We here at...

Big Changes in Detroit’s Restaurant Scene, Including A Farewell to Hard Rock Cafe

Jake Neher/WDET As business and activity continues to expand in Downtown Detroit, the city’s food and restaurant industry is growing...

The Milo Minute: Strange Heart, Bars of Gold, Techno City

Click the audio player to listen. CultureShift airs weekdays at noon. Longtime Detroit music journalist Jeff Milo’s byline appears in...

Where will the cool kids be this month? Metro Parent’s list of things to do in December

Thanksgiving is over and the holiday season has begun. That means there’s plenty to do. Metro Parent Magazine manages a...

Michigan Senate Votes to Gut Minimum Wage, Paid Sick Time Laws

Jake Neher/WDET The state’s minimum wage might not reach $12 an hour until 2030. That’s if proposed changes to a...

Ford Announces Reduction of Shifts, Without Eliminating Jobs

Pat Batcheller Ford Motor Company announced it will rebalance production at some US plants.  Just days after General Motors announced...

GM Decision on Poletown Plant Dredges Up Painful History in Hamtramck, Detroit

Jake Neher/WDET Thirty-eight years ago, the cities of Hamtramck and Detroit helped demolish a neighborhood to make way for the...

How Newspaper Ads Helped Perpetuate Slavery in Colonial America

Adverts 250       Healthy Negro Lad. About Seventeen years of age. To be sold. Esquire of the printers....

Judge Dismisses Lawsuit Against Marines in Death of Michigan Muslim Recruit

mcrdpi.marines.mil In 2016 Taylor native Raheel Siddiqui fell to his death from a third story building…after he was injured during...