A Palestinian baby girl, Sabreen Jouda, who was delivered prematurely after her mother was killed in an Israeli strike along with her husband and daughter, lies in an incubator in the Emirati hospital in Rafah, southern Gaza Strip. Sunday, April 21, 2024. (AP Photo/Mohammad Jahjouh)

Created Equal: How the war in Gaza is complicating pregnancy

April 22, 2024

We have heard a lot about the war in Gaza — about the politics and positioning on both sides, and...

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Created Equal: Detroit-native Tonya Mosley discusses new podcast, ‘She Has a Name’

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March 29, 2024

"Unknown Woman 1987" Set against the backdrop of the drug epidemic in 1980s Detroit, She Has A Name is a...

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FILE - Fox Sports broadcaster Greg Olsen, who placed the first ceremonial bet in North Carolina, shows his receipt during a DraftKings event celebrating the launch of mobile and online sports wagering across the state at the NASCAR Hall of Fame, March 11, 2024, in Charlotte, N.C.

Created Equal: Sports betting causing a public health crisis?

March 28, 2024

The sports betting business is booming, with Americans waging a record-high $119.84 billion in 2023 as more states allowed it....

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Created Equal: Why memories about Black life and history matter today 

March 14, 2024

In February 2021, The Atlantic launched "Inheritance," a multi-year reporting project about American history, Black life and the resilience of...

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People participate in the "Teach No Lies" march to the School Board of Miami-Dade County to protest Florida's new standards for teaching Black history, which have come under intense criticism for what they say about slavery, Wednesday, Aug. 16, 2023, in Miami.

Created Equal: What are the consequences of omitting America’s racial history?

February 22, 2024

Nikki Haley was criticized for omitting slavery when she was asked about the cause of the civil war but she...

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American inventor and patent draftsman Lewis Latimer

Created Equal: Setting the historical record straight on Black invention in America

February 19, 2024

Black Americans have largely been left out of the story of American invention. In the North and South, patents from...

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Former Michigan Gov. George Romney and former Detroit Mayor Jerome Cavanaugh at the front of a 10,000-person march at Fort Street and Woodward Avenue in Detroit, in solidarity with the 1965 Selma to Montgomery voting rights marches.

Created Equal: Shining a light on inequities in Detroit, America

February 5, 2024

Detroit, and its history, is ground zero for understanding the promise of opportunity and the challenge of inequality in this...

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Created Equal, Season 2: Journalist Ron Fonger Says Water Crisis Was Government’s Failed Attempt “To Save Money”

December 2, 2019

Longtime journalist for the Flint Journal and MLive Ron Fonger talks with Stephen Henderson about his work covering the crisis....

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Created Equal, Season 2: Lindsey Smith On Immersing Herself in Flint and Telling Residents’ Stories

November 26, 2019

In this episode, Stephen Henderson speaks with Lindsey Smith, p. 273, Michigan Radio’s Investigative Reporter. Her 2015 documentary about the Flint...

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Created Equal, Season 2: Melissa Mays, Flint Mom of Three, Still Fighting the Effects of Poisoned Water

November 26, 2019

In this episode, Stephen Henderson speaks with Melissa Mays, a Flint mother turned activist who says she and her children are...

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