It’s a holiday tradition some say is bigger than Christmas Day itself. The Polish Christmas Eve dinner celebration known as Wigilia has been around for centuries, and it has been celebrated annually right here in metro Detroit. Members of Detroit’s Polish community share how Wigilia has helped them find deeper connections to their family and heritage.
Read MoreStephen talks with Nate Wallace from Knight Foundation’s Detroit office about an op-ed he wrote indicating the need for Black Detroiters to have more access to the arts.
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MPC20 Conversations: Respond and Rebuild is a free digital series offering national and local speakers and dialogue, inspired by the tenor of conversation traditionally held at the Mackinac Policy Conference.
Read MoreIn the ongoing series, “Do Black Lives Matter in America?,” we take a closer look at the relationship between Detroit police and the community, especially in light of the ongoing Black Lives Matter protests.
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Learn everything you need to know about exercising your right to vote on Election Day – featuring Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson and Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel.
Read MoreIn the ongoing series, “Do Black Lives Matter in America?,” we have frank conversations about the way the news media has covered the Black Lives Matter protests, and we take a look at diversity in the nation’s newsrooms.
Read MoreABJ is launching a 3-part series of shows produced in collaboration with the innovative, community-based news organization, BridgeDetroit, and focusing on the question: “Do Black Lives Matter in America?”
Read MoreSeptember is National Suicide Prevention Month, and Stephen talks with the founder of a non-profit that has launched a campaign to reduce the rising rates of suicide among young Black boys ages 5-12.
Read MoreOn the next American Black Journal, our roundtable of communications consultants, political strategists and radio personalities take on the topics that everyone is talking about in the African American community.
Read MoreStephen talks with DAAA President & CEO Ronald Taylor about the report’s findings and ways to reduce the numbers.
Read MoreStephen gets all of the details on the new virtual format for this year’s 41st Annual Detroit Jazz Festival.
Read MoreStephen talks with Sherry McRill of Northeast Integrated Health about a program that sends social and behavioral health experts on calls with police to help provide needed services to the community.
Read MoreWayne State University President M. Roy Wilson talks with Stephen about the many changes coming to the campus this fall due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Read MoreStephen has a candid conversation with Rock Ventures about what steps the company is taking to increase diversity, equity and inclusion.
Read MoreStephen talks with Michael Rafferty, the CEO of New Detroit; plus, the annual ARISE Detroit! Neighborhoods Day is still on this summer and Dell Pryor talks about her collaboration with the Detroit Artists Market.
Read MoreSatori Shakoor talks with Stephen Henderson about bringing The Secret Society of Twisted Storytellers to a virtual audience and the importance of storytelling, especially now.
Read MoreLt. Governor Garlin Gilchrist speaks his mind in the latest COVID313 Town Hall June 11, 2020...
Read MoreBy Bryce Huffman, Olivia Lewis and Orlando Bailey from BridgeDetroit | June 11, 2020 What up doe!...
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The Detroit Regional Chamber and Detroit Public TV shared some of the most memorable Mackinac Policy Conference moments.
Read MoreWednesday, May 13, a live virtual conversation featuring Chastity Pratt, Dr. Iheoma U. Iruka and Stacey Abrams about the importance of high-quality early childhood education for US economic prosperity.
Read MoreOwner Godwin Ihentuge spoke with Christy McDonald about the cultivation of Yum Village and future plans for the restaurant.
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Watch Live Join the Detroit Regional Chamber for the 2020 Detroit Policy Conference: Defining a...
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Nolan gets a tour of the new apartment and retail space near the Fisher Building, known as The Boulevard. It’s the first new residential building in the New Center area in 30 years. He talks with the developer about this neighborhood investment and the affordable housing it offers.
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Stephen sat down with marketing specialist Eric Thomas about his recent Detroit Free Press guest ...
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Who benefited from the foreclosure crisis? Reveal reporter, Aaron Glantz, wanted to know. The details are in Glantz’s book, “Homewreckers: How a Gang of Wall Street Kingpins, Hedge Fund Magnates, Crooked Banks, and Vulture Capitalists Suckered Millions Out of Their Homes and Demolished the American Dream”. He sat down for an interview with Sarah Alvarez of Outlier Media, who’s been covering the foreclosure crisis in Detroit.
Read MoreIn One Detroit – Detroit Public TV’s news and public affairs operation — we have created a new model for covering the city, which we believe is unlike the approach of any other news organization in Detroit – or perhaps any other city. We don’t merely report the news; we reveal life as its 4 million residents know it, through intensive and ongoing community engagement.
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An emergency situation in the flooded Jefferson Chalmers neighborhood on Detroit’s east side comes with 100,000 sandbags and the workers to fill and stack them.
The city of Detroit is looking for short term solutions where record high water levels and too much rain have left residents submerged near the Detroit River. One Detroit’s Bill Kubota has the story.
Michigan’s University Research Corridor (URC) embarked on a six-stop Infrastructure Innovation Tour over nine months in 2018 and 2019 for the purpose of generating conversations about infrastructure needs, promote innovation, and foster future collaboration.
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Since 2011 Detroit Public TV and the Detroit Regional Chamber partner to provide Michigan citizens...
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View the streaming schedule for the 2019 Mackinac Policy Conference.
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One Detroit’s Christy McDonald, Stephen Henderson, and Nolan Finley discuss their impressions of the newly formed Hate Crimes Unit within the Michigan Attorney General’s office.
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Abner Hines stepped through the doors of the Macomb Correctional Facility on Tuesday and for the first time in 45 years was free to choose what he wanted to do, go where he wanted to go.
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One Detroit takes a closer look at the Fitzgerald neighborhood and housing projects in the works.
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Digital integration of devices like Alexa into our cars seems like an inevitability. But what will that integration look like? One Detroit’s Will Glover headed to the P3 exhibit at the auto show’s Automobili-D space to find out.
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Find out more about Brilliant Detroit’s approach to helping children 0-8 in Detroit’s neighborhoods with kindergarten readiness.
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Church of the Messiah’s Pastor Barry Randolph takes us on a tour of the Islandview neighborhood.
Read MoreIn this One Detroit report, we see how a traditional Japanese New Year’s celebration involving the pounding of rice is being replicated at a metro Detroit community center.
Read MoreFinding guidance in parenting isn’t always easy. Meet Keith Crispen, a Detroit dad who’s helping other dads connect with their kids and find resources on their own journeys as fathers.
Read MoreIn 1981, Detroit lawyer and activist George Corsetti decided he would capture the demise of Poletown on video, directing the documentary film, Poletown Lives!
Read MoreNolan Finley had an opportunity to sit down with Dingell for a one-on-one interview on the eve of Tuesday’s release of his new autobiography, “The Dean: The Best Seat in the House”.
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In this Islandview update, One Detroit producer Bill Kubota, talks with MACC Development’s Ezekiel Harris about the recent power surges that have rendered 5 of the washing machines at the local cafe / laundromat unusable and what they’re trying to do to address the problem
Read MoreOne Detroit takes a tour of a quintessential bedroom community.
Read MoreOn the next American Black Journal, the head of the Detroit Wayne Mental Health Authority talks with Stephen about the state of mental health in the region and how his agency is working to provide a holistic approach to the people it serves. Plus, athletes and other celebrities team up to make sure that metro Detroit residents in need have access to a traditional Thanksgiving dinner. We’ll tell you about the All-Star Giveback taking place in River Rouge.
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Watch the state’s top business and community executives. A fast-paced, half day of thought leadership, solutions and ideas at the 2018 MI CEO Summit on November 1 at The Westin Book Cadillac Detroit.
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In this election cycle, 10 women are running for the 14 congressional seats in Michigan. In this One Detroit report, Christy McDonald takes a look at the difference women are making in races around the state.
Read MoreRecently, the Detroit Journalism Cooperative sat down with Republican candidate, Attorney General Bill Schuette, for an in-depth, hour long interview with a panel of its reporters from WDET, Chalkbeat Detroit, Bridge Magazine, Michigan Radio, and Detroit Public Television. The DJC reporters asked AG Schuette about his stances on issues including, but not limited to education, the economy, the environment, and social issues.
Read MoreNolan Finley goes on a walking tour of the many thriving ethnic small businesses along Vernor Highway in Dearborn for a look at how many Arab American immigrants are going after the American Dream.
Read MoreOne Detroit contributors, Christy McDonald, Stephen Henderson, and Nolan Finley sat down at Common Pub in Detroit to talk about what makes a Detroiter, to talk about their connection to Detroit, as well as to explain the kind of storytelling that will shape their new show, One Detroit, which premieres this Thursday at 7:30 PM.
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Bottled water has replaced the drinking fountains in Detroit’s public schools as they opened this...
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Recently newspapers nationwide pushed back against President Donald Trump as he declared...
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Stephen Henderson: Welcome to American Black Journal. I’m Stephen Henderson. Each year...
Read MoreAmy Huschka from The Detroit Free Press gathered reactions from several Michigan lawmakers and...
Read MoreBoiling water doesn’t get rid of it. Residential filters don’t take it out either. In a special Great Lakes Now report, Bureau Chief Mary Ellen Geist explains what PFAS are and how high levels of the chemicals are contaminating water on the west side of Michigan.
Read MoreIn this One Detroit report, Michigan journalist Anna Clark talks about her investigation into the Flint water crisis, which is detailed in her new book titled, “The Poisoned City.”
Read MoreIn early August, over 3,000 journalists from all over the country came to Detroit to attend this year’s NABJ Convention. What did journalists have to say about the state of diversity in the media? One Detroit’s Will Glover took to the convention floor to find out.
Read MoreAmerica’s home care shortage is critical, and growing. The industry’s shortage seems to be driven by low wages, few benefits and a lack of respect for workers, 90 percent of whom are women. Would giving them more responsibilities and more training help workers earn more? In the second part of reporting by PBS Newshour, economics correspondent Paul Solman takes a closer look at whether there is a solution.
Read MoreDetroit’s mid-century modernist gets his due, nearly six decades later
Read MoreOne Detroit’s Bill Kubota reports from one of Abdul El-Sayed’s campaign stops in Ypsilanti, to see how the gubernatorial candidate has addressed concerns from within his own party about his religion affecting his chances to win.
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Erin Einhorn, Bureau Chief at Chalkbeat Detroit, and Sascha Raiyn, education reporter at WDET, asked gubernatorial candidates about education.
Read MoreIn this week’s clip of Making Sense on PBS NewsHour, learn about the looming shortage of home care workers, the challenging work environment and compensation that’s barely above poverty level. The national segment, which aired across the country last night was shot in Grand Ledge, Traverse City, and Detroit, MI.
Read MoreWhat does ‘neighboring’ look like in Detroit’s Islandview neighborhood? Christy McDonald reports.
Read MoreAnti-gerrymandering activists rally outside Deloitte’s Detroit office asking Michigan Chamber of Commerce Chair, and Deloitte Managing Partner, Mark Davidoff to drop a lawsuit against the reform measure. The MiWeek team talks about the ballot proposal and this latest protest.
Read MoreD.L.I.V.E., a program at Detroit’s Sinai-Grace Hospital aimed at reducing gun violence in the city, gets national exposure in the L.A. Times. We take a look at a One Detroit report on the D.L.I.V.E. program, which stands for: DETROIT LIFE IS VALUABLE EVERYDAY.
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To celebrate our city’s rich architectural legacy, Detroit Public Television has produced an original documentary – “Detroit Designs the World” — telling the Detroit design story and how it influenced the thinking of modern masters, nationally and globally.
Read MoreDid you know you can experience the great outdoors in the heart of Detroit?
Read MoreThe Church of the Messiah’s pews were packed this last Saturday morning in June. Pastor Barry Randolph prepared the crowd for the eleventh annual Silence the Violence march through Detroit’s east side Islandview neighborhood to fight gun deaths.
Read MoreProducer Bill Kubota follows the story of Nick Buckingham. A returning citizen, community organizer, activist, and now college graduate, Buckingham recounts the struggles that he and many returning citizens face in the struggle to find and keep work.
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Detroit journalist and podcast producer Imani Mixon joined community activist Monique Tate on a drive around their neighborhood. They’re showing One Detroit a two square mile neighborhood on Detroit’s east side called MorningSide.
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