County Executive Warren Evans on Wayne County Challenges
Christy McDonald talks with County Executive Warren Evans about the biggest issues Wayne County is grappling with during the COVID-19 crisis
Read MoreApr 16, 2020
Christy McDonald talks with County Executive Warren Evans about the biggest issues Wayne County is grappling with during the COVID-19 crisis
Read MoreApr 16, 2020
Christy McDonald talks to Michigan Lt. Gov. Garlin Gilchrist about a new Task Force on Racial Disparities and the last 40 days in Michigan.
Read MoreApr 14, 2020
One Detroit Associate Producer talks with The Root Senior Writer Michael Harriot about how the COVID-19 pandemic is exposing how social & economic disparities particularly among Black & Brown Americans impact the country as a whole.
Read MoreApr 13, 2020
Christy talks with Special Education Director, Dr. Lanissa Freeman, about how Southfield Public Schools is meeting the needs of special education students.
Read MoreApr 10, 2020
Each Thursday at noon, the COVID313 Community Coalition for Families and Students hosts a virtual townhall focused on supporting parents, students, and families.
Read MoreHamissi Mamba considered opening a second location of his restaurant in Ann Arbor. But a trip to Detroit’s East Warren-Cadieux area changed his plans.
A $500,000 appropriation from last year’s state budget will take the Detroit-based organization to Lansing and Flint.
The Black barbershop is a sanctuary for grooming and public rest and a pulpit to express joy, debate values and politics in a community that is affirming and safe.
The Black barbershop is a sanctuary for grooming and public rest and a pulpit to express joy, debate values and politics in a community that is affirming and safe.
Michael Cunningham II, a fierce advocate for bus riders and drivers in Detroit, has landed a one-bedroom apartment after nearly a decade of housing insecurity.
In our news wrap Sunday, Israel closed Gaza's main point of entry for aid after Hamas fired rockets at Israeli forces nearby, Al Jazeera went off the air in Israel after the Israeli cabinet voted to shut it down, Kenya said the country's death toll from flooding and landslides has risen to 228, Ukraine marked its third Orthodox Easter at war with Russia, and artist Frank Stella died at age 87.
The prevailing images of college protests over the Israel-Hamas war in the past few weeks have been of escalating tensions, clashes with police and mass arrests. But students and administrators at several schools from Rhode Island to California have found common ground during negotiations. Erin Gretzinger, a reporting fellow at The Chronicle of Higher Education, joins John Yang to discuss.
Myanmar is on the brink of becoming a failed state. For three years, the southeast Asian nation has been embroiled in an escalating civil war between the military junta and pro-democracy forces. Now, resistance groups have gained control of a significant part of the country after a long line of junta defeats. John Yang speaks with Burmese-American journalist Aye Min Thant about the situation.