One Detroit Staff

Design Core Detroit’s Month of Design continues to positively impact the city outside the month of September. Will Glover interviews Kiana Wenzell about some of the installations created during the month and how designs not only bring beauty to the world but a learning experience as well.

We checked in with our local students who are part of the PBS NewsHour Student Reporting Labs and asked what they find most worrying about going back to school in-person, how their environment has changed, and what they wish adults knew about going to school nowadays. 

Detroit Public Theatre pays homage to the first African-American justice to serve on the Supreme Court of the United States, Thurgood Marshall, with the outdoor performance of the one-man show, Thurgood.

Covid-19 put American social safety net programs to the test, making long standing systemic issues even more visible. One Detroit’s Will Glover took a look at one of those issues–how expensive it is to be broke.

Where does Michigan stand as a state at this point in the pandemic? The future of work is changing, not only how we work and where, but the priorities companies now have moving through the pandemic. A renewed focus on the inequities affecting communities of color during the pandemic and racial justice protests. All of this and more at the 2021 Mackinac Policy Conference.

Christy McDonald talks with CEO of the Detroit Regional Chamber Sandy Baruah about the importance of Michigan’s leaders coming back together at the Mackinac Policy Conference after two years,  the safety measures that have been put into place, and what the focus of the conference will be.

A new school year is starting up soon, and it comes as the country is seeing a spike in Covid cases.

A simple cinder block wall, built 80 years ago in Detroit. It’s been called the Wailing Wall, the Eight Mile Wall and the Birwood Wall because it went up along Birwood Street–a lasting symbol of racism during the war years when Detroit became America’s Arsenal of Democracy.

Will Glover talks with Kevin Dewey – Director of choirs and Vocal Music Instructor at Henry Ford College about The Dearborn Symphony, Vanguard Voices from Henry Ford College, and Dearborn’s Players in a holiday musical gift to the community.

Detroit’s primary elections are coming up. One Detroit contributors, Nolan Finley of The Detroit News and Stephen Henderson of American Black Journal, got together to talk about who’s on the ballot, the contention over proposed charter revisions, and the future of the mayoral seat.