Underground Railroad

Today, we look at the similarities between the shooting at a high school in Georgia, and what happened at Michigan's Oxford High three years ago — most notably, criminal charges against a parent of the shooting suspect. Then, we’ll visit an Underground Railroad exhibit in Ypsilanti. We’ll get the local history in this critical system of abolitionists. And we’re serving up the next episode of The Dish! Two West Michiganders make tortillas the right way.

Today, the cyberattack and labor issues at Ascension St. John hospital in Detroit. Then, the less known operatives of the Underground Railroad. Plus, solar-powered summer fun!

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

Efforts to expand state hate crime law to include more protected classes, a national video series between academics and artists/creatives discussing Black operatives along the underground railroad, Ann Arbor flooding, and the afterlives of solar panels.

In the 1840s, a black family fleeing slavery found refuge in Marshall, Michigan. Only a few years later, after settling into their new home, relatives of…

All Thornton and his wife Lucie Blackburn wanted was freedom when they came to Detroit in 1831. The African-American couple came to what was then still…

This year marks the 150th anniversary of the end of the Civil War. But the end of slavery in the United States wasn’t official until the 13th Amendment to…

When you think of the Underground Railroad, one name you may not recognize is Laura Smith Haviland. She helped many slaves escape from the South to…