Two weeks before the fiftieth anniversary of the July 24, 1967 police raid that set off a week of looting,…
By Laura Herberg | WDET Sirena, a 13-year-old from a Detroit suburb, has one word for what it’s like having…
By Gabrielle Settles | WDET Black and white residents of southeast Michigan differ in their perceptions of how people of…
WDET Are families finding education options that will keep them in the city? For Detroit parents, the decision making about…
Detroit’s violence during July 1967 began after a police raid at the intersection of 12th and Clairmount streets. Not…
Using data from the FBI, WDET charted Detroit’s crime rate and compared it to other U.S. cities.
One of the threads in the fabric of Detroit’s post-1967 narrative includes the civil rights attorneys who not only…
“Why is it that sometimes police officers use lethal force and other times they don’t? How do they determine when?”…
Richard Tillman was working in the auto industry in 1953 when a friend, newly hired at the Detroit Police Department,…
Born in Montgomery, Ala., Ike McKinnon came to Detroit at the age of 10. A few years later, he had…