Eastpointe’s New Mayor Monique Owens Wants All Voices At Table
The city of Eastpointe has elected its first African American Mayor. Monique Owens assumes the position after serving on Eastpointe's...
In An Old Synagogue, Detroit Artist Tony Rave Brings “Family Matters” to Life
Donavan Glover On Sunday night at a former synagogue converted into the Shylo Arts space for both local and national...
Hip Hop, Slam Poetry and Storytelling Collide at Detroit Public Theatre’s ‘Temples of Lung and Air’
HuthPhoto / Detroit Public Theatre Kane Smego started out by making a name for himself as a spoken word performer...
Created Equal, Season 2: Marc Edwards
Marc Edwards, a civil engineer and University Distinguished Professor at Virginia Tech conducted the research confirming that lead was poisoning...
Created Equal, Season 2: Virg Bernero
Virg Bernero was the 51st Mayor of Lansing and is currently CEO of Bernero Hannan LLC. Bernero put pressure on...
Author Steve Luxenberg On Racial Strife from Plessy v. Ferguson To Modern Detroit
Jake Neher/WDET Author and hometown Detroiter Steve Luxenberg is back in town promoting his book "Separate," which explores the human stories behind the...
Flint’s First Poet Laureate On The Power of Literary Arts: “Flint Is Rising, Don’t Count Us Out”
When is the last time you sat down and wrote a poem, a story or a letter just for fun?...
Created Equal, Season 2: Rep. Dan Kildee On Bringing Flint’s Crisis to Washington
"When we saw this decision to switch the water source to the Flint river. If you're from Flint, it sounds...
Created Equal, Season 2: Former EPA Water Expert on Finding the Evidence for Flint
"Nobody is really going to pay attention that there's lead in the water until there's evidence that people are being...
Created Equal, Season 2: ACLU’s Curt Guyette On Running His Own Flint Water Tests
"The question became: How do you get to what is going on conclusively? I proposed: Do our own tests." -...
Created Equal, Season 2: Stephen Henderson on How Disinvestment, Poverty and Emergency Management Created a Crisis
Hosted by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Stephen Henderson, "Created Equal" pulls apart the strings of inequality that run through the American...
Created Equal, Season 2: Thomas Sugrue
Thomas Sugrue, page 120, is a Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis and History at NYU. A specialist in twentieth-century American politics,...