Jim Crow Museum Expansion
Dr. David Pilgrim is a museum curator at Ferris State University's Jim Crow Museum of Racist Memorabilia. It's home to 14,000 mostly racist artifacts. Today we’re talking with Pilgrim about how this M...
6 Okt 202117min
FBI Informants and Kidnapping Plot
Federal prosecutors and attorneys for an armed anti-government militia continue to lay groundwork for a trial set to take place next year. The group of mostly-Michigan men, the so-called Wolverine Wat...
5 Okt 202122min
Difficult Groundwork for Infrastructure Deal
President Joe Biden will be in Howell, Michigan tomorrow. And he’s coming to rally support for his infrastructure plan. The infrastructure bill passed in the Senate back in August. But the House vote ...
4 Okt 202112min
Forget Pumpkin Spice, We're Apple People
Autumn is the season for pumpkin spiced everything. As for Stateside? We'll take all the apples instead. So we were distraught to hear that a few freezing nights in April hurt the crop at many orchard...
1 Okt 202112min
Mixed Messaging on School Masks
The state budget, signed by Governor Gretchen Whitmer, has a provision that could threaten the funding of local health departments that issue mask mandates. The governor says it's unenforceable, but s...
30 Sep 202117min
SW Detroit, Then and Now
From the Great Migration to the impact of the I-75 extension in Detroit, Black and Latinx Americans have seen many parallels through their decades in the city. Today, we talk about the history, develo...
29 Sep 202119min
MI GOP: Two Events, One Conundrum
In Northern Michigan, two GOP events, one on Mackinac Island, and one in Antrim County cast light on a party divided. Many national figures joined with mainstream elected officials at the Mackinac Rep...
28 Sep 202112min
Rashaun Rucker's Allegorical Pigeons
Detriot artist Rashaun Rucker has spent the past few years thinking about birds—more specifically pigeons. He’s considered their gift of flight, their lower status with respect to human city dweller, ...
27 Sep 202118min
