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Today, how Ford plans to fulfill its newly negotiated and ratified contract, a look back on moments in East Lansing and Grand Rapids history, and the introduction of a unique space in Washtenaw County devoted to youth battling mental health challenges.

Professors at Wayne State University hosted a forum to understand how relationships between Israel and Gaza has changed over time and what is often misunderstood about their histories.

Oxford School shooter could serve life without parole, the Moth story slam does porch pop-ups, a great Detroit Tiger player with a bad legacy, sheep helping solar fields and a conversation with a Southwest Detroit muralist.

Under HB 4672, teachers would be required to teach how the Pilgrims “cultivated democratic forms of government and Christian ethics.”

Hear about how Michigan police can take your car even if you are not charged with a crime. Michigan has a long history of opposing mass transit…but how far back does it go? How one man dug up the artifacts of indigenous people around the globe and kept them for himself. And what work is being done to return those artifacts.

There are countless historical photos of Native American people, but often their origins are questionable. A new exhibit at the University of Michigan explores their history.

Thursday night's congressional hearing on the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the Capitol was aired on news stations around the country. But this is not the first time that Congress has investigated threats to the country.

Have you heard of the goiter belt? Michigan used to be “smack dab in the middle” of it.

Cultural references to passing have been around for a long time. But recent works like the Rebecca Hall’s film adaptation of Nella Larsen’s book, Passing, have brought it back to the forefront. Today, we talk about the contexts that have caused this narrative to recur across the centuries.

Hockey legend Taffy Abel was the first Native American winter Olympian and the NHL's first Indigenous player. For nearly a century, his heritage remained hidden in plain sight.