social inequality

Tracie McMillan, a Detroit-based author and journalist joins Stateside to talk about her family's experiences with the American healthcare system, and how her mother was harmed by it.

Octavia Butler's 1993 book, Parable of the Sower draws readers into a 2024 America ripped apart by poverty, corporate greed, and climate calamity — as a teenage girl leads a rag-tag group of followers through a scary world. Two of Butler's most famous fans, Toshi Reagon and her mother Bernice Johnson Reagon have adapted Parable of the Sower into an opera, premiering in Michigan this weekend.

Black people make up more than 40% of all COVID-19 related deaths in Michigan, but black people are only about 12% of the state’s population.Lieutenant…