What’s Happening with Michigan’s Republican Party?
In just a few weeks delegates for Michigan’s local Republican chapters will pick their representatives to send to the state party convention. This year’s a mid-term election, and lots of prize seats a...
25 Maalis 202212min
"Passing:" The Story of Elsie Roxborough
In 1914, Elsie Roxborough was born into a wealthy, Black family in Detroit. But when she died in 1949, her death certificate listed her as white. Her life was rich, curious and at times, troubled, all...
24 Maalis 202219min
“Passing:” Narratives of Black Americans, Living as White
For a Black person in the 19th century or the first half of the 20th, "passing" meant living part or all of your life as non-Black. Literature, films and other cultural references to passing have been...
23 Maalis 202223min
Sports Broadcaster Jamie Samuelsen’s Legacy
Metro Detroit broadcast journalist Christy MacDonald lost her husband, sports broadcaster Jamie Samuelsen, to colorectal cancer when he was just 48 years old. On today's pod, she talked to us about he...
23 Maalis 202219min
An Opera Ode to Octavia Butler
Octavia Butler's 1993 book, Parable of the Sower served as a sort of upside-down comfort read for a lot of people during the pandemic. It draws readers into a 2024 America ripped apart by poverty, cor...
21 Maalis 202220min
Maple Syrup's Indigenous Roots
Just when you think you cannot with the cold weather anymore, here comes sugaring season, to take the bitterness of winter out of your mouth. We're dedicating this entire episode to all things maple s...
18 Maalis 202220min
Rep. Peter Meijer on Ukraine
Yesterday Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy spoke before a joint session of Congress. He brought up Pearl Harbor, 9/11, Martin Luther King Jr., and urged the Biden administration for further act...
17 Maalis 202213min
Murky Messaging on Benton Harbor Water
For the past five months, state health officials have been telling Benton Harbor residents not to drink their tap water. But now the safety message for Benton Harbor seems to be shifting. And it’s lef...
16 Maalis 202213min
