Comedian Chillian Thomas Talks Growing Up Black In A White Trailer Park
Gus Navarro This summer the Detroit Today community has been reading Matthew Desmond’s Evicted which takes a deeper look at...
Can The NFL Sustain Boycotts From All Sides?
Will this NFL season continue to be marred by controversies and declining viewership as we’ve seen over the last couple of...
Was Detroit’s Bankruptcy Filing The Right Decision? A Look Back Five Years Later With A Member Of The EM Team
Jake Neher/WDET This week marks the fifth anniversary of Detroit’s historic bankruptcy filing. We’ve talked a lot about the bankruptcy...
City Divided: A Look At The Disparities in Detroit
Jake Neher/WDET "Two Detroits" is a phrase often said to describe the rapid rise of Detroit’s downtown and midtown against...
Activist Randall Robinson Looks Back on Nelson Mandela’s Life 100 Years After His Birth
Jake Neher/WDET Wednesday would have been the 100th birthday of Nelson Mandela. The anti-apartheid revolutionary spent 27 years in a...
Reporters, Retirees Look Back at Detroit’s Bankruptcy Five Years Later
Jake Neher/WDET July 18th, 2018 marks the fifth anniversary of the City of Detroit’s historic bankruptcy—the largest municipal bankruptcy ever. The...
Study Finds Dramatic Drop in Percentage of Blacks Who Own Homes in Michigan
Urban Institute A newly-released study finds that the percentage of African Americans who own their own home dropped more in...
Bitcoin ATM’s Popping Up in Detroit
Bitcoin ATM’s are increasingly appearing around metro-Detroit. The machines allow users to exchange cash for the crypto-currency. Bitcoin of America has eight terminals in metro-Detroit. CEO Sonny Mehraban says bitcoin ATM’s cater to those with little, or...
StoryCorps Detroit: What Happens When a Father is Deported?
Diana Lara’s father was deported to Mexico when she was thirteen years old. StoryCorps Lara, her mother, and her...
‘Blowing Open Misconceptions’: How Comic Books Push the Discussion About Race and Representation in America
Laura Weber Davis/WDET The Marvel superhero movie “Black Panther” has made more than one-billion dollars at the box office since...
First American TV Reporter to Wear Hijab On-Screen Joins Detroit Today
Tahera Rahman If you were to picture in your mind what a TV news anchor or reporter looks like, what image...
Former Juvenile Lifer From Detroit Discusses the Horrors of 43 Years in Prison
Jake Neher/WDET For decades in America, there has been a debate about the extent to which the law should punish young...