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Recent stories from The Metro
The Metro: The Recovery and Resilience Festival welcomes a sober celebration
The Recovery and Resilience Festival in Wyandotte is an art and music festival organized to connect people and promote substance abuse recovery.
The Metro: Season Fair brings the art market to local creatives
Detroit: Other Routes serves as the theme for the second edition of the Season Fair.
The Metro: An initiative wants to remove money from Michigan politics. Can it?
The Michiganders for Money Out of Politics measure is on the ballot this November. Sean McBrearty breaks down the proposal.
The Metro: Who gets to say no to a data center in Michigan?
Michigan communities keep pausing data centers while a statewide bill stalls. Rep. Jennifer Wortz on power, farmland and local control.
The Metro: Cartoons and Stereo Vol 2. celebrates skating, music and art
Cartoons and Stereo celebrates the intersections of music, fashion, art, skating and food. Festival organizer and hip hop artist Stoop Lee talks about the event.
The Metro: Detroit Jazz Fest is this weekend
President and director of the Detroit Jazz Fest Foundation, Chris Collins, stopped by The Metro to preview the event.
The Metro: Is Detroit’s police oversight board able to hold cops accountable?
Commissioner Victoria Camille spoke to The Metro about what the police oversight board can actually do to hold cops accountable and whether some of its power has weakened after access to body cam footage was restricted in May.
Metro Events Guide: How to spend Labor Day weekend in metro Detroit
Discover unique events in metro Detroit happening Sept. 3-10.
The Metro: School attendance is improving quickly in Detroit. Here’s why.
In just one school year, chronic absenteeism dropped 10 percentage points in Detroit.
The Metro: Why Michigan’s Senate race reveals gaps between candidates and voters
Grassroots Midwest is a bipartisan advocacy firm. CEO Adrian Hemond joins The Metro to discuss trends he’s noticed this election cycle, particularly among Democratic voters in Michigan.
CONTAINER on The Metro: Majesty Hope Bland and her woven purpose
Meet Season 2 resident Majesty Hope Bland, a Detroit fiber artist transforming textiles and upcycled materials into one-of-a-kind pieces.
The Metro: In Her Honor – A portraiture series giving the Black Maternal Health epidemic a face
Artist and advocate Omari Maynard and Mothering Justice’s Danielle Atkinson join The Metro to discuss “In Her Honor,” a portrait series honoring Black and Brown mothers lost to maternal mortality.
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