Stateside Daily Archive

"What up doe?" If you’ve heard the term before, you probably know it as a greeting or maybe even a question. But for many Black Detroiters, the phrase is a piece of home. Today, we'll talk about the h...

21 Feb 202221min

James Dewitt Yancy, better known as J Dilla, would have been 48-year-old this month. The Detroit king of all beats showed the world in his brief life that the city’s best musical days are not in the p...

18 Feb 202237min

You might not know their names, but the people who sit on the Federal Reserve Board of Governors make important decisions that touch every part of the U.S. economy. Michigan State University economist...

17 Feb 202220min

The future of legal abortion is up for debate in a way that it hasn’t been for nearly five decades. The U.S. Supreme Court’s conservative-leaning majority is widely expected to weaken federal protecti...

16 Feb 202218min

Whatever your opinion on legal abortion, there’s a good chance you’ll be hearing a lot more about it in the coming months. The U.S. Supreme Court will soon decide whether to reverse or roll back the r...

15 Feb 202215min

For almost as long as its been a state, Michigan has had laws on the books that make abortion illegal. The most recent one was passed in 1931. But for nearly five decades now, it’s been rendered moot ...

14 Feb 202225min

After a months of hospital overcrowding and wide community spread of the omicron variant, public health indicators are showing some turnaround. And one by one, Michigan's county health departments in ...

11 Feb 202217min

Michigan-born playwright Noah Haidle’s Broadway debut was just about to happen — in 2020, the year COVID doused the stage lights. But now, Birthday Candles, is back, and he’s here to tell us about it....

10 Feb 202214min