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This mural, painted by Detroit-based artist Jesse Kassel, was one of eight painted across Michigan during the 2020 election to encourage people to vote.
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Michigan special elections: What metro Detroiters should know before May 6

Jenny Sherman May 2, 2025
Stacey Hotwaxx Hale performs a DJ set at WDET
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  • The Boulevard

Respect the Architect: Stacey ‘Hotwaxx’ Hale

Waajeed May 1, 2025

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Inside Shed 5 at Eastern Market
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The Metro Events Guide: Mother’s Day markets, May the fourth and more

Sophia Jozwiak May 1, 2025
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Detroit Evening Report: Nonprofit offering summer safety tips for Safe Kids Month

Bre'Anna Tinsley May 1, 2025
Gov. Gretchen Whitmer speaks at a podium in front of a U.S. flag.
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Whitmer rolls out themes on pre-State of the State tour            

Rick Pluta January 18, 2022

Gov. Gretchen Whitmer is on a statewide tour to pre-sell and fine-tune the State of the State she will deliver...

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Nessel
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  • Morning Edition

GOP attempt to award Michigan’s electoral college votes to Trump was criminal, Nessel says 

Russ McNamara January 18, 2022

Republicans who tried to put forth their own electors in 2020 election should face charges, Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel says. In...

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"Book Smugglers" Exhibit at Holocaust Center
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“Book Smugglers” exhibit arrives at the Zekelman Holocaust Center in Farmington Hills

Ryan Patrick Hooper January 18, 2022

"Would you risk your life to save a book?" That's the question at the new exhibit "The Book Smugglers: Partisans,...

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La June Montgomery-Tabron
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National Day of Racial Healing event “geared toward progress” and creating equitable systems

Sascha Raiyn January 18, 2022

The W. K. Kellogg Foundation has hosted its annual Day of Racial Healing for six years. The foundation’s president and...

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Book cover of "Letters to Martin" by Randal Maurice Jelks
  • Detroit Today with Stephen Henderson
  • Racial Attitudes

Author Randal Jelks casts Martin Luther King Jr.’s vision forward to 2022 in “Letters to Martin”

Detroit Today January 18, 2022

Americans have been having some very serious conversations about race, inequality and police brutality in the past two years. I...

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  • Detroit Today with Stephen Henderson
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Liberals need to center race and class in political conversations, says Roosevelt Institute’s CEO and president

Detroit Today January 18, 2022

After ignoring the topic of race for a long time, there is a new debate emerging in Democratic political circles:...

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Michigan House cancels session amid COVID-19 surge

Rick Pluta January 18, 2022

COVID-19 is canceling votes and meetings this week in the Michigan House of Representatives. House Speaker Jason Wentworth said Monday...

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Michigan Democratic legislators to announce gun storage bill package

Colin Jackson January 18, 2022

Michigan Democratic legislators said Monday that they plan to introduce a bill package designed to encourage safe firearm storage. Sponsors...

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Kelley Miller lies in a stretcher as a nurse watches a first responder takes her vitals
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Quadriplegic woman taken to hospital after losing care due to Michigan’s auto no-fault law

Tracy Samilton January 17, 2022

The tragic consequences of Michigan’s new auto no-fault law continue to mount.  Republican leaders in the state Legislature promised to...

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Former U-M President Mark Schlissel stands in front of bookcase.
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University of Michigan Board of Regents fires President Mark Schlissel

Vincent Duffy January 16, 2022

The University of Michigan Board of Regents voted Saturday morning to remove Mark Schlissel as President of the University of...

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An at-home COVID-19 test on a table
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Federal website for free COVID-19 tests launches next week, supplies limited to 4 per home

Associated Press January 14, 2022

WASHINGTON (AP) — The federal website where Americans can request free COVID-19 tests will begin accepting orders on Wednesday as...

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  • Detroit Today with Stephen Henderson

Filmmaker dream hampton remembers bell hooks, talks feminism in 2022

Detroit Today January 14, 2022

Every now and then a writer comes along and challenges current frames of thinking. They critique and analyze and puncture...

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