Centrepolis Accelerator, Media Diet, Birwood Wall Historical Marker

This Week on One Detroit:

Future of Work | Centrepolis Accelerator: Michigan’s Only Manufactured Product Incubator

What will it take to create a bright future for Michigan’s workforce and economy? According to experts, the state’s success lies in investments and improvements in the engineering and design industries. To better understand the investments that are needed, One Detroit’s Future of Work initiative takes a closer look at the Centrepolis Accelerator at Lawrence Tech University, the only Michigan manufacturing product incubator that brings ideas to life, to hear how they’re investing in Michigan’s engineering and design industries.

One Detroit producer Will Glover sits down with Centrepolis Accelerator Executive Director and Founder Dan Radomski to learn more about the accelerator’s impact on Michigan’s business environment and economy.

Remembering A Racist Wall’s Past: Detroit’s Birwood Wall Receives Michigan Historical Marker

A Michigan historical marker has been installed at the site of the Birwood Wall, which at one time stood as a symbol of racism and housing segregation in Detroit, in the Eight Mile-Wyoming neighborhood. Known also as the Wailing Wall or the Eight Mile wall, for its location, the wall was erected in 1941 by a real estate developer in an effort to separate his housing development for white residents from the adjacent African American neighborhood nearby.

By the 1950’s, Black families lived on both sides of the Birwood wall. The wall has since been painted to symbolize the resilience and resolve of African Americans in the area. One Detroit senior producer Bill Kubota and contributing producer Daijah Moss visited the unveiling of the Birwood Wall historical marker to learn more about the city’s and residents’ efforts to move forward.

From Newscasts to Podcasts: Are Consumers’ Media Diets Changing?

It’s not your parent’s newscast anymore. As traditional media outlets like local newspapers and television stations make way for newer forms of news consumption through podcasts, online coverage and citizen reporters who document public meetings, are consumers’ media diets changing with the digital age?

One Detroit takes a closer look at the new ways people are getting their news and how it’s being delivered to them. One Detroit senior producer Bill Kubota examines how journalists and news outlets are adapting to an evolving media diet.