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Culture
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Detroit's Movement Electronic Music festival normally ends by midnight, but there’s an overnight dance scene that makes it a 24-hour affair. As a part of our "Mornings in Michigan" series, Michigan Radio’s Erin Allen takes us into the wee hours of the weekend with a Detroit techno icon.
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Miz Korona's artistry extends from before her scene in 8 Mile through almost three decades of international touring, teaching, photography, fashion design, and beat production. Today, she’s getting ready to release a new EP: The Healer and the Heartbreaker.
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"What up doe?" If you’ve heard the term before, you probably know it as a greeting or maybe even a question. But for many Black Detroiters, the phrase is a piece of home. Today, we'll talk about the history of "what up doe" and what it means to its originators.
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For most of us, to start the day is to turn off our alarm, get dressed, have a coffee or maybe water, and then start work or school. But there’s a little place in Detroit where the first few things on the list are instead — sitting, chanting and meditating.
Politics & Government
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This new building, called The Anchor at Mariners Inn, will offer more supportive housing, counseling, therapy and job training services.
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New anti-lobbyist legislation in the state Senate. Learn all about the little pools of water at the base of trees. How the bussing system in Detroit schools has led to absent students. A new Asian influenced district in Novi. Then, a segment with the Points North Crew about an underwater crucifix in the Great Lakes. Finally, the best advice about preheating your oven?
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A report from the University of Michigan’s Center for Racial Justice finds Detroiters' support for reparations is strongly tied to their perceptions of racial inequity.
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"So for anybody here who ever wanted to kiss their landlord goodbye, this is your opportunity with city assistance," Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan said.
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According to city plans, some of the alleys will get new murals, a farmer’s market, parks, a museum, and an art gallery.
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Detroit City Council approved more tax incentives for the District Detroit project. A Ypsilanti school teacher and poet talked about her new book of poems for children. How companies are looking to address shortage of skilled laborers. Finally, a discussion with two theater intimacy coordinators.
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The $1.5 billion District Detroit proposed projects include 10 new and renovated buildings for over 1.2 million square feet of commercial office space, 695 mixed income residential units and 400 hotel rooms.
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Hear about the United Auto Workers presidential election results. Then, one of the stuntwoman for the Black Panther films stopped in. An expert talks about whether vaping products work for quitting cigarettes. And how Michigan outlawed rent controls?
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Councilmember Mary Waters says there's a risk the land bank is selling homes out from under residents.
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More than 70 people showed up virtually and in person to Tuesday's city council meeting to talk about the district, but Council delayed the vote until next week
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A food co-op opening in Detroit, the best advice on resilience, the mystery behind the SS Arlington, and election year analysis of the issues facing and enthusiasm of Black voters from a longtime Detroit journalist.
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The Detroit People’s Food Co-Op – which has signed up 2,000 members so far – is part of Malik Yakini's vision for a more liberated future for Black folks in Detroit.
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The changes at MSU a year after a campus shooting, the pros and cons of large solar projects in Detroit neighborhoods and navigating the back and forth between couples regarding their finances.
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Detroit Police say crime in the city dropped last year, with the fewest homicides the city has seen since the 1960s. But that number doesn’t account for population.
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Fortescue Metals Group received approval from the Detroit Brownfield Redevelopment Authority to build an electric vehicle battery systems plant in the city.
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Adams led Detroit's Hartford Memorial Baptist Church for over 50 years. The Harvard-educated pastor was known as an eloquent preacher whose sermons were both powerful and intelligent. He was also a political and social activist with a national and even international profile.
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The Detroit Police Department says the killing of the president of a Detroit synagogue was not the result of antisemitism.
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Events across southeast Michigan call for end to Middle East violence, as Israel-Hamas war hits close to home for many.
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Despite the rising wages, the report found that only 36% of Detroiters make a living wage.
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The record setting marijuana boom in MI, a famous water tower, a Detroit custom suit shop, and a Southeast MI hip hop artist.