Digitally Recreating Detroit’s Black Bottom Neighborhood
Jake Neher/WDET The Black Bottom neighborhood was once the epicenter of Black life and entertainment in Detroit. Black Bottom was...
The Unexpected Challenges of Fixing Up A Cheap House in Detroit
Jake Neher/WDET A few years ago a young man from Adrian published a fascinating piece on the website Buzzfeed about...
UM Professor Wins Pulitzer Prize: Hear Heather Ann Thompson’s WDET Interview Here
Blood In The Water University of Michigan history professor Heather Ann Thompson won a Pulitzer Prize this week for her nonfiction book...
What Can Justice Department Learn from Detroit’s Consent Decrees?
Jake Neher/WDET U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions filed a memo in early April for the Department of Justice to review...
The Wall Speaks: Voices of the Unheard
The Wall Speaks is a complex and deeply moving exhibition by visual artist Wojtek Sawa. Through bricks, interactivity, large translucent photos...
Italian Film Festival Opens in Detroit
Over a dozen films produced in Italy come to Detroit this month as part of the Italian Film Festival-Detroit. The...
Should Dearborn’s Orville Hubbard Statue Stand Despite Racist Legacy?
Jake Neher/WDET A statue depicting the city of Dearborn's longest-serving mayor resurfaced this week along with the decades-long controversy surrounding...
Rep. Maxine Waters on African Americans, Women, and the Democratic Party
congress.gov Congresswoman Maxine Waters has been in the news recently after Fox News Host Bill O’Reilly commented on her hair...
Former Haitian First Lady Visits Detroit On Friday with Rep. Maxine Waters
Jake Neher/WDET Few countries in the world have faced as much hardship as Haiti. The Haitian people had been forced...
Freep Film Festival Begins Tonight
Freep Film Fest The Freep Film Festival begins today. The first film of the festival—“12th and Clairmount”, directed by Brian...
Rodriguez for Mayor?
“I describe myself as a musical political,” musician Sixto Rodriguez says. “There’s a lot of issues that Detroit has, and...
WDET’s Ismael Ahmed On Long History of Muslim, Arab Discrimination in America
Jake Neher/WDET How does it feel to be told you’re somehow less American than others because of your skin color, who...