Author Steve Luxenberg On Racial Strife from Plessy v. Ferguson To Modern Detroit
Jake Neher/WDET Author and hometown Detroiter Steve Luxenberg is back in town promoting his book "Separate," which explores the human stories behind the...
Flint’s First Poet Laureate On The Power of Literary Arts: “Flint Is Rising, Don’t Count Us Out”
When is the last time you sat down and wrote a poem, a story or a letter just for fun?...
Created Equal, Season 2: Thomas Sugrue
Thomas Sugrue, page 120, is a Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis and History at NYU. A specialist in twentieth-century American politics,...
Created Equal, Season 2: Dr. Mona Hanna-Attisha On “the Perfect Storm” That Led to Flint
“There’s many long-standing causes that created the Flint Water Crisis, it wasn’t one person and one decision. It was a...
Created Equal, Season 2: Rep. Dan Kildee On Bringing Flint’s Crisis to Washington
"When we saw this decision to switch the water source to the Flint river. If you're from Flint, it sounds...
Created Equal, Season 2: Former EPA Water Expert on Finding the Evidence for Flint
"Nobody is really going to pay attention that there's lead in the water until there's evidence that people are being...
Created Equal, Season 2: ACLU’s Curt Guyette On Running His Own Flint Water Tests
"The question became: How do you get to what is going on conclusively? I proposed: Do our own tests." -...
Created Equal, Season 2: Stephen Henderson on How Disinvestment, Poverty and Emergency Management Created a Crisis
Hosted by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Stephen Henderson, "Created Equal" pulls apart the strings of inequality that run through the American...
Created Equal, Season 2: Flint Residents “Have a Voice, They Just Didn’t Have a Platform.”
"These are the people who haven’t been heard. I never say voiceless, they have a voice, they just didn’t have...
Founders Owner: Firing “Has Nothing To Do” With Former Employee’s Race
Update, Nov. 1, 2019: Founder's has settled the racial discrimination case with plaintiff Tracy Evans, with neither party admitting fault....
Former Congressman John Conyers Dies as a Civil Rights Icon with a Tarnished Legacy
There was nothing but reverence for Conyers at a rally for Bernie Sanders yesterday in Detroit. Michigan Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib,...
Remembering John Conyers: A Legacy Beyond Legislation
Detroit is mourning the loss of political titan, John Conyers, who passed away over the weekend at age 90. The...