MLK and Detroit’s Walk to Freedom
Martin Luther King's time at the Detroit Walk to Freedom in June of 1963 came several months before the famous March on Washington. And yet, this was the place where people would first hear some of th...
18 Jan 202115min
New Life for Detroit's Tejano Music
Detroit’s Martin Solis, a Tejano music pioneer, never recorded any of his songs. Or at least that’s what most people thought. Now Third Man Records (Jack White’s label) is releasing some of those reco...
15 Jan 202116min
Criminal Charges in Flint Water Crisis Case
Today, former Michigan Governor Rick Snyder and several people in his administration face criminal charges for their parts in the Flint Water Crisis. On today’s episode, we’ll talk about the legal cas...
14 Jan 202119min
Teachers In Line for Vaccines
Now that teachers are eligible for COVID-19 vaccines, Governor Gretchen Whitmer says she wants schools to start offering in-person learning for students by March. But that depends on those vaccines ac...
13 Jan 202120min
Threats to the Great Lakes
On today's episodes, you'll hear about the latest developments with Enbridge’s controversial Line 5 pipeline in the Straits of Mackinac. Plus, environmentalists worry ballast water rule changes put th...
12 Jan 202119min
Open Carry Banned at Michigan Capitol
Michigan is one of just a handful of states that doesn’t restrict guns in their statehouses. But in the wake of violent riots in D.C. last week, that’s changing. Today, the Michigan Capitol Commission...
11 Jan 202117min
Sec. Betsy DeVos Resigns
When Donald Trump told that crowd to go march on the Capitol saying they needed to show strength, he set off an unprecedented chain of events. It’s led us to a moment in which just about everyone has ...
8 Jan 202118min
Chaos at the Capitol
President Donald Trump has spent months stoking outrage among his supporters with false claims about election fraud. Yesterday, that anger exploded in a terrifying and chaotic scene at the U.S. Capito...
7 Jan 202123min
