Jeff Milo at the WDET studio

‘MI Local’ with local music curator Jeff Milo premieres Tuesday

February 6, 2024

Tonight is the series premiere of MI Local, showcasing new music released by Michigan-based artists, including Detroit, Ann Arbor and...

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Detroit activist Tristan Taylor leads a Black Lives Matter protest in Detroit.

Created Equal: Exploring reparations for Black Detroiters

February 6, 2024

Many cities across the U.S. are exploring the idea of reparations, and Detroit is one of them. The city created...

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New WSU study finds ‘music medicine’ can help cancer patients

February 6, 2024

A recent study by researchers and physicians at Wayne State University School of Medicine and the Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer...

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Detroit Evening Report: Local leaders supporting state water affordability bills

February 5, 2024

Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan and other local leaders are backing state legislation to create a water affordability program. Subscribe to...

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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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The Metro: Declining population means new Detroit City Council districts

February 5, 2024

Welcome to The Metro, WDET’s daily news and culture show hosted by Nick Austin and Tia Graham. Each week on...

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The managers of The Maple Theater in Bloomfield Hills announced on Monday, Feb. 5, 2024, that they will not be renewing their lease for the historic theater.

Maple Theater management announces historic theater will close its doors

February 5, 2024

The Maple Theater — a long-time institution for independent film buffs in metro Detroit — will close its doors after...

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FILE - Kristina Karamo speaks to Michigan Republican Party delegates on Feb. 18, 2023, in Lansing, Mich.

RNC empanels special committee to resolve Michigan leadership dispute

February 5, 2024

The Republican National Committee has stepped in to resolve the dispute over who is leading the Michigan Republican Party. A...

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United Auto Workers President Shawn Fain meets with the media at a Mopar Parts Distribution Center in Center Line, Mich.

UAW endorsement of Biden comes amid massive organizing campaign

February 5, 2024

President Joe Biden was in metro Detroit for a campaign stop last week to meet with voters and union leaders....

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Defense Attorney Shannon Smith begins her closing arguments for her client Jennifer Crumbley, Friday, Feb. 2, 2024, in Pontiac, Mich.

Jury deliberations underway in Jennifer Crumbley manslaughter trial

February 5, 2024

Jury deliberations began Monday for the mother of the teen who killed four classmates at Oxford High School in 2021...

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Members of the Abandon Biden campaign held a press conference at the Greenfield Manor Feb. 1, 2024 in Dearborn to express their outrage with President Joe Biden not meeting with the Arab American community during his visit to Michigan.

Arab American leaders urge people to vote in primaries, even if they are upset

February 5, 2024

President Joe Biden was in metro Detroit last week to meet with union leaders, but he did not meet with...

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Rep. Abdullah Hammoud, D-Dearborn, speaks during a campaign rally for presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., in Dearborn, Mich., March 7, 2020.

Dearborn ramps up security after WSJ op-ed calls it ‘America’s jihad capital’

February 5, 2024

DEARBORN, Mich. (AP) — Dearborn, Michigan, is ramping up its police presence in response to fallout from an opinion piece...

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