Category: Social Justice

Fixing the Districts

One Detroit finds out how we’ll lose a seat in Congress this next election cycle and how district lines might be redrawn.

“Muhammad Ali:” A Ken Burns Documentary

Muhammad Ali brings to life one of the best-known and most indelible figures of the 20th century,...

7/19/21: One Detroit – Michigan Opera Theatre / Marygrove / Alexander Vlahos / Detroit Youth Choir

Peter Whorf + Yuval Sharon interview about Michigan Opera Theatre stepping off the stage to bring audiences theatre in a way they’ve never seen by presenting the opera in the MOTs parking structure.

7/12/21: One Detroit – Tuskegee Airmen / Ray Gray / 20 Front Street / YoYo Ma

The Tuskegee Airmen National Museum celebrates a monumental move and an 80 year milestone. More on Ray Gray’s story; Wayne Co. Prosecutor Worthy says commutation is a possibility

7/8/21: One Detroit – Harassment Culture in Lansing / Student Vaccinations / Hamtramck USA

Tonight on One Detroit: Sexism and the Culture of Harassment in Michigan Politics Christy...

6/21/21: One Detroit – Cranbrook Design Tours / Plowshares Theatre / Detroit Jazz Fest / The Wretched Movie

Michigan’s only professional African American Theatre, Plowshares Theatre Company, presents a virtual concert of songs from an original musical set in Detroit past.

6/14/21: One Detroit – Deidre D.S. Sense / Asbury Park / Erik Ronmark / Sphinx

Christy McDonald talks with Vice President and General Manager of the DSO Erik Ronmark about their plans to have audiences back in orchestra hall for the new season.

6/7/21: One Detroit – Nate Wallace / Seven Last Words of the Unarmed / Hannah Lydia Wilson / AXD

Aaron Dworkin from Arts Engines talks with Dr. Eugene Rogers about the powerful multi-movement choral work by Atlanta-based composer Joel Thompson titled Seven Last Words of the Unarmed.

5/24/21: One Detroit – Punk Music in Detroit / Women in Jazz / History of Almond Boneless Chicken

Tonight on One Detroit: Cinecyde Formed in 1976, Cinecyde may have been Detroit’s first...

Featured on One Detroit this Thursday: Detroit Filipino Supper Club co-founder Shane Bernardo cooks up connections to Filipino culture, history, and community by sharing traditional Filipino recipes that boil over with ancestral wisdom and the power to heal.

5/17/21: One Detroit – Frances Kai-Hwa Wang DIA project / Impact of Collaborations / Detroit Filipino Supper Club / Dave Bennett Quartet

Tonight on One Detroit: Frances Kai – Hwa Wang Will Glover talks to journalist, activist,...

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News From Around Detroit

What we know so far about Detroit’s controversial use of facial recognition
by Bryce Huffman (Bryce Huffman | Bridge Detroit)
Here’s a look at how Detroit police have used facial recognition data since the beginning of 2021.
Festival brings art, healing to 4 Detroit neighborhoods
by Bryce Huffman (Bryce Huffman | Bridge Detroit)
Detroit’s Sidewalk Festival has returned after a pause for COVID, and will bring art and healing back to four Detroit neighborhoods this summer. “Neighborhood kids who maybe don't go downtown or Midtown, they need the art just as much as anyone else,” said Phil Simpson, a Detroit native and painter.
An ex-Detroit police chief’s political hopes — and pending lawsuits
by Louis Aguilar (Louis Aguilar | Bridge Detroit)
As former Detroit Police Chief James Craig gets the rock star treatment from conservatives, lawsuits over tactics used by police against last year’s Black Lives Matter demonstrators remain unresolved.
DDOT passengers demand more buses, shorter wait times
by Bryce Huffman (Bryce Huffman | Bridge Detroit)
Waiting for the bus isn’t easy in Detroit, but DDOT’s driver shortage has made it worse. The City is looking to hire more drivers.
Understanding why Detroit floods and why it keeps happening
by Louis Aguilar (Louis Aguilar | Bridge Detroit)
Here’s why certain Detroit neighborhoods flood and disinvestment matters. Also, is suburban sprawl a cause of city flooding?

National Headlines

Federal court lifts CDC rules for Florida-based cruise ships
The lawsuit, championed by Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis, claims that the CDC's multiple-step process to allow cruising from Florida is overly burdensome, harming both a multibillion-dollar industry that provides some 159,000 jobs and revenue collected by the state.
News Wrap: Federal appeals court finds CDC eviction moratorium unlawful
In our news wrap Friday, a federal appeals court has ruled against a moratorium on most residential evictions during the pandemic. Shooting and protests erupted outside the funeral of Haiti's slain President Jovenel Moïse. Monsoon rains in western India triggered landslides, killing more than 100 people. The search for bodies officially ended at a collapsed condominium tower in Surfside, Florida.
Unlikely partners Pelosi and Cheney team up for Jan. 6 probe
The emerging partnership between Pelosi and Cheney is remarkable, if not astonishing, as the longtime political adversaries join forces to investigate what happened the day former President Donald Trump's supporters stormed the Capitol.