Journalist Danny Fenster Detained in Myanmar
The U.S. State Department is stepping up pressure on the military government in Myanmar to release journalist Danny Fenster. The Michigan native was detained by authorities at the airport on his way t...
2 Juni 202111min
Police Reform Bills in Michigan
A bipartisan package of police reform bills are in the state Senate. Advocates are aiming for a broader approach to major systemic failures in policing. But the sponsors of these bills say incremental...
1 Juni 202121min
The Racist Past of Fielding Yost
In the 1934 game against Georgia Tech, the University of Michigan athletic director, Fielding Yost, benched the football team’s best player, Willis Ward. Not because of an injury or anything Ward did,...
28 Maj 202118min
Tick, Tick, Boom
It is not your imagination, ticks are beyond plentiful in Michigan this year. So, what’s behind this boom in population? And what can we do to keep ourselves safe from the disease-spreading pests? On ...
27 Maj 202120min
Bringing the Taste of Burundi to Detroit
Opening a restaurant in the middle of a pandemic might seem like a risky choice. But for Mamba Hamissi and his wife Nadia Nijimbere, it was the only one that made sense. The couple are refugees from B...
26 Maj 202118min
One Family’s Response to Police Bias
One year ago today, George Floyd’s murder at the hand of a Minneapolis police officer, spurred a movement against police brutality that reached across the world. It has brought a lot of people to dig ...
25 Maj 202121min
Whitmer's Night Out
It’s never fun to get caught doing something you told someone else not to do -- like over the weekend when Governor Whitmer stepped outside of her own COVID social distancing guidelines and met up wit...
24 Maj 202115min
“What’s Going On,” 50 Years Later
Fifty years ago, Marvin Gaye made a creative leap of faith, and gave us one of the most enduring works of the 20th century: his 1971 album, “What’s Going On?” But a little known fact is that he had a ...
21 Maj 202116min
