The Metro: Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson explains her ‘purposeful’ battle in new book
At the beginning of Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson's new memoir, armed protesters surround her house. It’s December 2020,...
The Metro: Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson explains her ‘purposeful’ battle in new book
At the beginning of Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson's new memoir, armed protesters surround her house. It’s December 2020,...
The Metro: New book spotlights Detroit’s Arab, Chaldean communities
Arab Detroit is constantly in flux. In the last 10 years, new communities of refugees from Syria, Iraq and Yemen...
The Metro: Detroit Public Library is ready to help in many ways
If you go to the library to borrow a book, you are just scratching the surface of all the tools...
The Metro: Bookstock, Detroit’s largest used-book sale, supporting literacy initiatives across the state
Subscribe to The Metro on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, NPR.org or wherever you get your podcasts. As spring arrives, so does Bookstock — Michigan’s largest used book...
The Metro: New book reexamines chronic absenteeism and potential solutions
Subscribe to The Metro on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, NPR.org or wherever you get your podcasts. Last school year, the number of Michigan students who missed more...
The Metro: ‘Jazz-A-Bet’ book bridges music history and children’s literature
Subscribe to The Metro on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, NPR.org or wherever you get your podcasts. The city of Detroit has long been a hotbed for jazz....
The Metro: Curbing the impulse to buy more stuff
Subscribe to The Metro on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, NPR.org or wherever you get your podcasts. For some of us, we have accumulated a lot of STUFF...
The Metro: Birdie’s Bookmobile is turning the page on Michigan’s literacy crisis
Subscribe to The Metro on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, NPR.org or wherever you get your podcasts. Education plays an important role in the way in which society...
The Metro: ‘Love, Rita’ takes a personal look at systemic racism in the US health care system
Bridgett M. Davis is an author and daughter of Detroit. She’s written about her mom’s business running the numbers in...
The Metro: Preserving the oldest known published cookbook written by a Black woman
Subscribe to The Metro on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, NPR.org or wherever you get your podcasts. "A Domestic Cook Book: For the Kitchen," published by Malinda Russell...
The Metro: ‘Rust Belt Reporter’ John Gallagher releases memoir
Subscribe to The Metro on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, NPR.org or wherever you get your podcasts. Detroit Free Press Reporter and columnist John Gallagher had a front...
The Metro: New book details the struggle to integrate Detroit schools
Subscribe to The Metro on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, NPR.org or wherever you get your podcasts. Many school districts throughout metro Detroit, and Detroit in particular, are...