In conjunction with our affiliate WDET and with support in part by the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, The Takeaway is looking at Detroit as a microcosm of what is happening in communities across the country, and talking to people who are working to re-energize, revive and re-imagine their city.
WDET's reporters have offered up a host of compelling stories about Detroit residents, from a clothing designer's rise to fame with the help of platinum-selling rappers, to a health clinic's coalition of Muslim and Jewish doctors who care for the working poor. Explore with us as we look at some of the country's most imaginative citizens, building new communities and businesses in The Motor City.
Economically, Detroit is arguably a city fighting to diversify, reimaging itself everyday as a hub of entrepreneurship. But socially, some say, Motown is stuck in neutral, still weigh...
Anyone watching the American economy might question what it means to have job security 2011. In Detroit this week, a group of national community organizers will be taking the question...
America’s shrinking cities might want to take note of a new alternative bubbling up from Detroit’s ongoing battle with blight. In truth, the idea is more old school than new: Why demo...
Great works of art have come to the streets of Detroit as part of a new exhibition called Inside/Out. Proving that art can also be enjoyed outside of museum walls, The Detroit Institu...
If Michigan legislators have their way, the state could soon be home to some of the most permissive charter school regulations in the nation.
Michigan, and Detroit in particular, is ...
Detroit and Berlin both know something about abandoned buildings. After the fall of the wall when the former east opened up, parts of Berlin looked a lot like Detroit today, where sco...
You don't have to be an urban planner to know that cheap quality space can mean artists, and artists can mean revitalization. With a video slide show, Martina Guzman of WDET tells the...
Detroit has long been called the birthplace of techno, and helped bring house music to a global stage in the 1980s — the kind of impact that still resonates around the world today, in...
WDET's Martina Guzman spent six weeks in the German city of Berlin, exploring a long-recognized but underreported connection between that former manufacturing giant and the Motor City...
