biography

First, what we know about the ICE arrest of an Ann Arbor father outside his child's school. Then, the life and legacy of Mother Waddles, an activist who devoted her life to feeding Detroit's hungry. Plus, an Iranian journalist speaks on the political activism of Iranian women following the police killing of Mahsa Amini in 2022.

Governor Gretchen Whitmer's new book. Meet a post-ironic candidate for Grand Rapids Mayor. As part of IPR's Stories That Heal, we heard about Diana Priest's journey with loss. And, a conversation with the owner of a new witchcraft-themed bar in Hamtramck.

Lawmakers revive debate over toll roads, an original production telling the stories of survivors of gender-based violence, and a biography on Madonna.

The ethics of juvenile life-without-parole sentences, a signing at Dearborn’s Green Brain Comics for the Spanish language edition of the graphic novel Frizzy, and a new biography about the life and influence of Michigan’s own, Madonna.

Analyzing a shift in the Republican Party's rhetoric over recent years. Dan Charnas archives the life and work of Detroit's revolutionary hip hop producer J Dilla in a new biography, Dilla Time.

Before 1968, most Americans had never heard music played on a synthesizer, which was then still an emerging technology. Many would also have said at the…

Michigan Bookmark is a series that features Michigan authors reviewing Michigan books.On July 8, 1850, with a crimson robe and a paper crown, James Jesse…