What Happened to All That Development We Were Promised Around Little Caesars Arena?
Jake Neher/WDET Five years ago, the Ilitch family and Olympia Entertainment made some big promises. As it built its taxpayer-subsidized...
Sam’s Jams: Brainstorm – Journey To The Light
Journey to the Light is the second album by the Detroit R&B group Brainstrom. It was released in 1978 on Tabu...
Michigan’s Options for Fixing the Damn Roads
Joan Isabella/WDET Gov. Gretchen Whitmer will lay out her first budget proposal this week. We expect it will explain in more...
Effort Underway to Save Hamtramck Stadium with Help from Jack White
Jake Neher/WDET Hamtramck Stadium is one of the few remaining Negro League ballparks in America. There’s now an effort underway...
What Is the Lake Erie Bill of Rights?
It's been almost five years since toxic algae polluted Toledo's water supply. Despite efforts to reduce phosphorus and other pollution...
The Progressive Underground Show 291 (Takeover Edition): THE STILETTO MONOLOGUES
Stiletto Monologues Productions On this installment of The Progressive Underground, cast members Rene Ingram-Dunham (playwright and Stiletto Monologues creator), Rochelle Darlene,...
Exhibit Offers Free Trip Back to the ’70s
Many March events will focus on holidays and the promise that Spring may actually come by the end of the...
MichMash: Marijuana Could Once Again Be On Your Ballot in 2019
WDET Digital Recreational marijuana is now legal in Michigan. But some Michigan voters aren’t done casting ballots on cannabis issues....
The Polar Bear Expedition: The Heroes of America’s Forgotten Invasion of Russia, 1918-1919 [AUDIO, TRANSCRIPT]
WDET recently aired a story about the Michigan Polar Bears — a group of soldiers who trained in Battle Creek and...
Hamtramck Music Fest Preview
Hamtramck Music Fest The Hamtramck Music Fest (HMF) returns for its sixth year next Thursday (March 7), kicking off three...
‘Is This Really Happening Right Now?’ Rep. Lawrence Reacts to Attempt to Prove Trump Not Racist
Brenda Lawrence This week’s testimony from President Trump’s former personal lawyer and fixer Michael Cohen was riveting enough. But later...
The ‘Silent Fight’ for Representation in Hip Hop for Women, LGBTQ Community
Gus Navarro/WDET Hip hop is one of America's most prominent art forms of empowerment. But it has also struggled with misogyny...