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Activists, Lawmakers Working to Keep Detroiters in Their Homes
Jake Neher/WDET Much of last year on Detroit Today was spent exploring all the ways that housing insecurity drives poverty. Even people...
Under the Radar Michigan Guys Talk Favorite Spring Break Spots
Jake Neher/WDET March means Spring Break. While many people flock to warmer climates, those of us who know a thing or...
L. Brooks Patterson Diagnosed with Stage Four Pancreatic Cancer
Alex McLenon Oakland County Executive L. Brooks Patterson has stage 4 pancreatic cancer. The career public servant was in good...
Moral Complexity—and Dragons!— How ‘Game of Thrones’ Can Teach You To Be a Better Person
HBO Click the audio player above to listen to the full conversation. CultureShift airs weekdays from 12 p.m. to 2...
Meet the Civil Rights Activist Who Took Over a Neo-Nazi Group in Detroit to Destroy It
James Stern It sounds like the plot out of a fantastic Hollywood movie. A black civil rights activist finds a way to...
Legendary Detroit Jazz Club Awaits Its Fate
Jake Neher/WDET Click the audio player above to listen to the full conversation. CultureShift airs weekdays from 12 p.m. to...
Former U.S. Attorney McQuade: Mueller Probe Summary “Like the Last Episode of the Sopranos”
Jake Neher/WDET The special counsel’s investigation didn’t find enough evidence to support prosecutions against President Trump on collusion with Russia...
Sam’s Jams: Joe Bataan – Latin Lover
Mestizo was released in 1980 by Joe Battan, an African American-Filipino Latino Soul musician from New York. Bataan was influenced...
John Waters Wants You (and Eminem) to Come to His Birthday Party
Greg Gorman Cult movie director John Waters is a pop culture and LGBTQ icon. For the past few years, the 'Hairspray'...
2019 WDET Munch Madness: Will Your Favorite Tacos Advance to the Elite Ate?
WDET CultureShift airs weekdays from 12 p.m. to 2 p.m. on 101.9 WDET Detroit Public Radio. The 2019 WDET Munch Madness: Taco Showdown bracket has...
Breaking: Mueller Report Delivered To U.S. Attorney General Barr
WASHINGTON (AP) — Special counsel Robert Mueller on Friday turned over his long-awaited final report on the contentious Russia investigation...