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Season 3, Episode 1- How The Spotlight Found Coleman Young

If anybody was taking bets in the early 1960s, Coleman A. Young would have been a true longshot for getting himself elected to just about anything. He held any number of jobs from the late 1940s to the early 1960s, and ran unsuccessfully for public office on three occasions. But his fortunes changed. His dogged…

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Episode 1- When The Beatles Came to Detroit

The Beatles came to Detroit twice, once in 1964 and again in 1966, both times at Olympia Stadium. We’ll hear the screams when the Fab Four took the stage at Olympia. We’ll also hear two eastsiders talk about Beatlemania. And what about those jellybeans? 

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