Michigan history

Today, a survey of the recent presidential nominee visits targeting Black voters in Detroit. Then, true tales from a storied cemetery you can visit this spooky season. Plus, how Michiganders are considering cannabis policy as a factor in their presidential vote.

Researchers look at how to control the parasite that causes swimmer’s itch, a husband-and-wife team of professional mushroom hunters offer their spring foraging tips, and the history of an undergarments factory run by women in the Upper Peninsula.

A look at state legislative races, Great Lakes fisheries learning Icelandic techniques, the best advice on drawing, when U.S. women lost their citizenship, and remembering the push to divest Michigan from apartheid-era South Africa.

Benjamin Hall's family has passed down one of their ancestor's freedom papers for generations. The document tells a piece of this family's history, and a larger painful legacy of chattel slavery in the United States.

Ford recalling a recall that was supposed fix air bag problems, a historical fiction novel set in Detroit and Alabama, how a Michigander invented kitty litter, and touring the Capitol restoration work in Lansing.

The Michigan Capitol rotunda is undergoing a major renovation. Michigan Public's Morning Edition team got a special tour of the job site on a 160-foot scaffold.

Through candid dialogue between academics and artists, a new video series examines the Underground Railroad’s history and its reverberating impact.

Democrats aim to get Michigan's environmental agency more power over water quality issues, AI helps to uncover Great Lakes history, and reframing the Israel and Gaza conflict.

The Michigan Independent Citizens Redistricting Commission ordered to make quick changes, the Arab American experience though Dearborn voices, a Flint inventor who gave us two-sided toast and the electric oven, and delivering doughnuts on the Great Lakes.

A look at the UAW's history of solidarity, a dementia friendly movie screening, the 145th anniversary of Michigan’s first phone book and why they are important, and the launch of our very own pizza podcast — Dough Dynasty.