Quantifying Anti-Asian Prejudice
The past three years have been a particularly scary time for people of Asian descent. Two University of Michigan researchers have been trying to find out if the rise in anti-Asian sentiment has had ot...
31 Jan 202319min
Who’s on Tubi? Detroit’s Black Filmmakers
When it comes to streaming services, you’ve got a lot to choose from these days. From the giants like Netflix, Hulu, HBO to smaller platforms catering to a more niche audience. The platform Tubi has b...
30 Jan 202319min
The Music of "Factories, Farms, and Amphetamines"
The next great Americana singer/songwriter could be not from Tennessee, not from the Carolinas, but from Southwest Michigan. Myron Elkins is an Allegan County native. His debut album, “Factories, Farm...
27 Jan 202318min
Gov. Whitmer's State of the State Address
Governor Gretchen Whitmer delivered her fifth State of the State address last night. It’s the first of her second term as governor, and her first in-person address in three years, due to COVID. It was...
26 Jan 202314min
Want Snow? Heikki Lunta delivers
Michigan's Upper Peninsula can get buried in snow during the winter. Some simply thank Mother Nature. Others use meteorology to explain it all. But to some members of the Finnish-American community in...
25 Jan 202322min
Notes from a Black Woman Food Critic
Lyndsay Green is a dining and restaurant critic for the Detroit Free Press, and the first Black person at the publication to hold that role. She finds that a lot of people in the restaurant world don’...
24 Jan 202320min
What COVID Taught Us About Racial Disparity
In April 2020, Gov. Whitmer assembled a taskforce to target biases and barriers that have long prevented racial minorities from receiving adequate medical care; something that was made abundantly clea...
23 Jan 202319min
A Tapestry of Black Stories
Tapestry in Black is a new podcast that gives Black Michiganders a space to share their experiences in their own words. Each episode of the show is a new story, told from the perspective of someone wh...
20 Jan 202315min
