Visions: Women’s History Month Vol. 3
Tonight on Visions, I continue exploring women in jazz. This episode travels around the world more than usual, featuring artists from...
The Metro: More young people have cancer. A Detroit doctor weighs in
It’s a medical mystery with destructive elements. Our cells divide and grow with unstoppable force. They seize surrounding tissue. They...
The Metro: Detroit’s newest department aims to prevent violence by building peace
One of the most popular programs in the City of Detroit is community violence intervention. It’s a policy that tasks...
The Metro: Detroit’s Venice could be underwater. Who should protect it?
These days, when it rains, it much more often pours. That’s due in large part to climate change. Heat waves are...
The Metro: ICE’s media machine and the voices going quiet
The Metro team has been noticing a chilling effect as we dig for answers and information: some sources who used...
WDET’s Spring Fudraiser is here!
WDET 101.9 FM presents the 2026 Spring FundraiserThursday, March 5 – Sunday, March 15Detroit’s Public Radio station, WDET 101.9 FM,...
The Metro: Too broken to live in, too expensive to fix. Detroit’s unique housing crisis
Detroit has a housing problem. But in this city, compared with others across the country, the issue isn’t about a...
The Metro: If ‘Detroit Never Left,’ who wrote the comeback story?
If you have lived in Detroit for a while, you’ve heard the city’s revival narrative. The magazines, the national news,...
Understanding road salt damage to Detroit’s tree canopy
As temperatures drop and snowfall increases this winter, Detroit's road commissioners break out their plows and salt trucks in order...
The Metro: New U-M study says your food was engineered like a cigarette
That creamy Reese's peanut butter cup dissolving on your tongue. The next crunchy Dorito you're reaching for before you've swallowed...
The Metro: Why the price of lettuce keeps increasing at your local grocery store
Grocery stores offer colorful produce aisles, where pyramid-shaped mounds of apples, oranges and lemons sit waiting for your inspection. In...
The Metro: She says Detroit’s food problem isn’t about donations. It’s about who owns the system
Part of the affordability crisis hitting American families is happening on our plates. One local wholesale distributor says multiple factors...