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DER Weekends: dream hampton on Martin Luther King’s legacy and the story of her name

July 7, 2023

In the latest episode of DER Weekends, WDET's Juma Sei talks with filmmaker and native Detroiter dream hampton about the legacy...

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Detroit Evening Report: House where Martin Luther King Jr planned Alabama marches moving to Michigan

April 17, 2023

The Henry Ford has a new building moving to Greenfield Village to preserve civil rights history. Listen and Subscribe to...

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Detroit Evening Report: Martin Luther King Jr. and his legacy as a revolutionary

January 16, 2023

On this special Martin Luther King Jr. Day edition of the Detroit Evening Report, we look back at Detroit Today's...

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AFSCME, Reuther Library Commemorate 1968 Sanitation Strike

February 2, 2018

The Walter Reuther Library observed a moment of silence this week to honor two men who died during the 1968...

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Detroit Youth Poets Perform MLK Remembrance Poem

January 19, 2015

WDET Every year teen poets from the InsideOut Literary Arts Project write and perform a poem about race, society and civil rights,...

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