racial bias

The group, known as CAIR-Michigan, says it found the department stopped Black motorists at a rate far above the proportion of Black residents in Ferndale or nearby cities.

The state's high court is developing a dashboard for judges and citizens to see potential disparities in felony sentencing by race.

On today's show: the largest county jail in Michigan still bars visits due to pandemic rules, different ways to tax EVs for road money, unlocking the powers of ancient mint and how pandemic induced bias affected Asian-American owned small businesses.

A Black police officer in Detroit has won a federal lawsuit in which alleged his fellow officers used excessive force and retaliated against him based on his race.

For some Black people in the 19th and 20th centuries, "passing" meant living part or all of your life as non-Black. Recent creative works — Lovecraft Country, Passing, and The Vanishing Half — have brought the idea of passing back to the forefront. This month on Stateside, we discuss the life of a Detroiter who passed as white in the '40s and return to historical, pop culture references to passing in America.

After a months-long investigation into Washtenaw County court records, a citizen-led group has released hard data on racial disparities in how people are…

The Board of Directors of the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit (MOCAD) announced Wednesday it had “terminated its relationship” with Executive Director…

After a white police officer killed George Floyd in Minneapolis, protests erupted across the country against police brutality toward Black people in…

An African-American police officer is suing the Detroit police department, claiming rampant racial discrimination, a hostile work environment, and an…

The Grand Rapids Police Department wants to rebuild trust with the community. So it started a pilot program that it hopes will help do that.The department…