Is Racial Hatred More or Less Empowered One Year After Charlottesville?
Courtesy of Dan Gottlieb This week marks one year since white nationalists, white supremacists, and Nazis marched in the streets of Charlottesville,...
How Did Media Miss Betty Jean Alexander’s Campaign Before Shocking Victory?
Betty Alexander Facebook “Shock” might be the best way to describe the reaction of journalists and political watchers to last...
Detroit Casino Revenue in July Rises Slightly from 2017
Detroit’s three casinos’ combined June revenue of $119 million was up from the same month a year, according to the...
DCFC Sets Big Goals On and Off the Pitch
Detroit City Football Club had mixed results on the pitch in 2018. After winning the National Premier Soccer League regional...
In Detroit, “Ruin Porn” Acts as a Proving Ground for Young Photographers
Doug Coombe Click on the audio player to listen. CultureShift airs weekdays at 12 p.m. The term "ruin porn" is...
The Death of the Dive: What’s Next for Two Iconic Dive Bars in Downtown Detroit?
Melody Baetens/ Detroit News Click on the audio player to listen. CultureShift airs weekdays at 12 p.m. Some of Detroit's...
GOP’s DeShawn Wilkins Hopes to Stop Betty Jean Alexander’s Unlikely Trajectory Toward State Senate
Jake Neher/WDET Last week, one of the more surprising results from the primary elections in Michigan was the Democratic contest...
Age Ain’t Nothing but a Number: How the Michigan Senior Olympics Keeps Seniors Active
Bruce Beck Click on the audio player to listen. CultureShift airs weekdays at 12 p.m. Since 1979, the Michigan Senior...
‘It Touches You…It’s Traumatic’–The Effects of Eviction and Housing Insecurity on Kids
WDET This Wednesday, the Detroit Today team is having another in-community book club meeting for their summer reading of Matthew Desmond’s Pulitzer...
CuriosiD: Where Does Detroit’s Yard Waste Go?
Listener Noah Link has a question about the branches and leaves his neighbors put on the street for pick-up: "I’m...
The Progressive Underground Show 276 feat. JEAN LUC-PONTY, CEDRIC MCDOUGLE (SUMMER OASIS FEST) & TEAM CHARIVARI
Progressive Productions This installment of The Progressive Underground features exclusive interviews with legendary jazz/fusion violinist JEAN LUC-PONTY (in advance of...
Wayne Kramer Talks About His Memoir “The Hard Stuff: Dope, Crime, The MC5, and My Life of Impossibilities”
Wayne Kramer talks with Ann Delisi about the criminal justice system, being self-obsessed and ultimately finding his way to selflessness and...