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The Metro covers local and regional news and current affairs, arts and cultural events and topics, with a commitment to airing perspectives and uncovering stories underreported by mainstream media in Detroit.
Hosts: Tia Graham and Robyn Vincent
Producers: Sam Corey, Cary Junior II
Engineer: Nate Bender
Senior Producer: David Leins
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Recent stories from The Metro
The Metro: He came to WDET as an intern. He leaves as its news director
The longtime news director and Michigan Journalism Hall of Famer talks with The Metro about the stories that shaped him — and the newsroom he built.
CONTAINER on The Metro: Chef Godwin’s Yum Village
Chef Godwin Ihentuge shares how Yum Village is using food to bring people together and build community in Detroit.
The Metro: Life on Detroit’s canals — and the fix that could end it
They call it the Venice of Detroit — canals running inland from the river, past backyards and boathouses. Nearly every parcel there sits in a federal flood zone, and one fix on the table would close those canals off. A chef whose customers arrive by boat and the woman who chairs the neighborhood’s water group joined Robyn Vincent on The Metro.
The Metro: What Republican candidates need to do to win Michigan
Both GOP senate candidate Mike Rogers and Michigan governor candidate John James were endorsed by President Trump. What else do they need to do to secure a win this November? Dennis Darnoi of Densar Consulting joins the show to give his perspective.
The Metro: A room that left Detroit 100 years ago lives on through Rachel Lutz’s Peacock Room
The Peacock Room is a timeless boutique that pulled its name from Detroit history. It was recently highlighted in a New York Times “Best Of” list. Storeowner Rachel Lutz talks about expertise, art collecting and history.
The Metro: She rebuilt her block when Highland Park couldn’t. Now she wants to run the city
When DTE repossessed about 1,400 Highland Park streetlights in 2011, residents filled the gap. On Avalon Street, that was Shamayim “Mama Shu” Harris. Now she’s on the November ballot for mayor — and facing a question the city has lived with for a generation: what can neighbors fix, and what needs a government?
The Metro: What Abdul El-Sayed learned from being outspent 11-1
Michigan’s Democratic Senate nominee on the money, the Detroit voters who didn’t come with him, and why he won’t change how he talks about Gaza.
The Metro: How the evolution of visual culture changed Mexican cinema forever
An art exhibit in the Cass Corridor displays posters from the Golden Age of Mexican cinema. The Metro speaks to the organizers about film history and culture.
The Metro: Detroit expands public transit, one millage at a time
Transportation Riders United Director Megan Owens discusses the Wayne County transit millage and her vision for expansive regional transport.
Metro: Progressives win up and down ballot
“This idea that you can spend your way to victory… I think that has taken a huge hit yesterday,” says longtime political journalist Zach Gorchow.
The Metro: Has economic populism come to Michigan?
State Director of the Working Families Party Branden Snyder discusses the progressive wave happening in the U.S., and why his party is focusing on building an economy that serves the many instead of the few.
The Metro: Is voting the least we can do, or the most?
Eric Liu has spent more than a decade building an answer: Civic Saturdays, civic seminaries, a curriculum of ordinary habits. He joined Robyn Vincent to talk about what he found in Flint and Detroit — and to face the argument that none of it is equal to this moment.
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