Dr. Melba Joyce Boyd is Michigan’s next poet laureate
Dr. Melba Joyce Boyd has been selected as Michigan's third poet laureate. Boyd is an award-winning author and retired professor...
The Metro: The past and present of the indigenous sport lacrosse in Detroit
Subscribe to The Metro on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, NPR.org or wherever you get your podcasts. Long before this city was home to gator shoes, Ford...
The Metro: License plate cameras at Ferndale-Detroit border creating controversy
Subscribe to The Metro on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, NPR.org or wherever you get your podcasts. The Detroit Documenters have been taking notes on growing tensions in...
The Metro: Repairing the broken water main in Southwest Detroit
Subscribe to The Metro on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, NPR.org or wherever you get your podcasts. It’s been two weeks since streets and basements flooded on Beard...
The Metro: Should cellphones be restricted in Michigan schools?
Subscribe to The Metro on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, NPR.org or wherever you get your podcasts. Educators have been sounding the alarm that cellphones disrupt learning. More...
Detroiter Iola Corbett shares her journey through Detroit, meeting Malcolm X and becoming a union president
February is Black History Month and WDET’s Detroit Evening Report is collecting Black History stories from listeners.Iola Corbett, also known...
The Metro: New exhibit shows the power and purpose of seeing Arab Americans as ordinary
Subscribe to The Metro on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, NPR.org or wherever you get your podcasts. For many Arab Americans in Southeast Michigan, Dearborn is a point...
The Metro: Connecting with community is important, but it’s gotten a lot harder
Subscribe to The Metro on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, NPR.org or wherever you get your podcasts. Loneliness in America is bad and getting worse. In recent decades,...
Detroit Evening Report: Whitmer to deliver State of the State Wednesday night
Gov. Gretchen Whitmer will deliver her seventh State of the State address at 7 p.m. ET on Wednesday, Feb. 26.Subscribe...
GOP House members call on SCOTUS to reverse marriage decision
A group of seven conservative GOP legislators put their names on a non-binding resolution Tuesday calling on the U.S. Supreme...
Detroit Evening Report: Almost 200 families still displaced after water main break
About 190 families displaced by last week’s water main break in Southwest Detroit are still in hotels as repairs and...
The Metro: Rep. Dingell says Trump’s taking ‘meat cleaver’ to federal departments
Subscribe to The Metro on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, NPR.org or wherever you get your podcasts. Donald Trump’s presidency has been marked by confusion and chaos for...