Michigan Watch

News media around the world are talking about Detroit’s resurgence.Politicians in the city and the state, such as Gov. Rick Snyder, hype its…

In Detroit, jobs are scarce. Money is short.That has led to an underground economy that one Detroit reporter calls a “gift economy.”Valerie Vande Panne’s…

The U.S. Department of Education says kids at schools with mostly black or Latino students don’t get as good of an education as kids at schools with…

Attitudes about race have been improving in southeast Michigan, but there are still wide gaps on some issues between white people and black people. Those…

Politicians and media reports indicate Detroit is in the middle of an economic resurgence. That’s true for the central business districts. That’s not the…

More in this series from Michigan Radio and its Detroit Journalism Cooperative partners can be found at www.detroitjournalism.orgThe news has been full of…

America struggles with race and those struggles are intensifying. As the white majority has been shrinking, racial tensions have been rising. You can see…

Recently I was led through an abandoned building in Detroit.“The first time we came in here in 2013 it was still relatively intact. The power was off, but…

A special report looking at the progress, struggles, and failures in Detroit during the city’s first year out of bankruptcy:An investigative reporter…

As Detroit approaches the one-year anniversary of emerging from the nation’s largest-ever municipal bankruptcy, Michigan Radio is examining one of the…