StoryCorps Detroit: Chalk Drawings on the Hudson Building
Maurice Greenia, Jr. is an artist and performer from Detroit. In the mid-1990s, he decided to brighten up the boarded-over display windows of...
StoryCorps Detroit “The city is like one big house”
One day while renovating her recently purchased home, 55-year-old Tate Osten heard a knock on the door. When she answered it,...
StoryCorps Detroit: “The bar was our CNN.”
Damon “Magic” Percy and and Curtis Lipscomb are not biologically related, but they’re father and son in the LGBT community....
StoryCorps Detroit: Yellowman
In this episode of the StoryCorps Detroit podcast, we hear the story of how Ken met Lori. StoryCorps Ken remembers...
StoryCorps Detroit: “Much better than everything people said you were”
Jennifer Smith is the founder of Closing the Gap, a nonprofit that uses personalized mentorship to help Detroit students enter...
StoryCorps Detroit Podcast: “The city is like one big house”
One day while renovating her recently purchased home, 55-year-old Tate Osten heard a knock on the door. When she answered it,...
StoryCorps Detroit Podcast: House, Techno, Raves and Voguing
In this episode of StoryCorps Detroit, we bring you three stories where people talk about the supportive culture they find...
StoryCorps Detroit Podcast: “It seems like fewer of us make it now.”
In 1967, Bill Williams was a teenager living with his extended family not far from the intersection of 12th Street and...