Fiction Anthology Captures Life in Dearborn
Lebanese American author Ghassan Zeineddine is an assistant professor of creative writing at Oberlin college. His new fiction anthology, “Dearborn", captures the realties of life in a place he called ...
8 Sep 202316min
Leading Irish Playwright Premiers in Detroit
The Michigan Irish Repertory Theatre in Detroit is set to debut the U.S. premier of a play, "Come On Home," which was written by Phillip McMahon, one of Ireland's leading playwrights. The play deals d...
7 Sep 202318min
Can Religious Hospitals Deny Trans People Care?
Michigan expanded its civil rights law this spring to protect sexual orientation and gender identity. But now there's this big unanswered question: are religious organizations exempt from those laws? ...
6 Sep 202315min
Why the UAW Might Go on Strike
A potential United Auto Workers strike loomed large at yesterday's Labor Day parade in Detroit. Contracts between the UAW and the Big Three auto companies are set to expire on September 14th. On today...
5 Sep 202312min
Prepping for Storms Like Last Night
Last night’s storms left over 300,000 Michiganders without power this morning. Meteorologists confirmed a tornado touchdown in Rockford, just north of Grand Rapids, and another in Ingham County that t...
25 Aug 202321min
What Students Need to Succeed
A back-to-school double feature! First, the lengths that some Michigan teachers go too just to gather enough supplies for their classroom, and how basic resource availability impacts student learning....
24 Aug 202321min
From Hip-Hop to Techno with Waajeed
Detroit hip-hop group Slum Village helped usher in a new sound in the 1990s that transformed the genre. Robert O'Bryant, better known as Waajeed, is one of the skilled sound designers who helped craft...
23 Aug 202319min
Beaver Island: The Anti-Mackinac
With no fudge shops, no old battle forts, no horse-draw carriages, and no souvenir traps, Lake Michigan's Beaver Island is arguably the anti-Mackinac Island. That also makes it a perfectly peaceful su...
22 Aug 202318min
