Season 4 – Episode 9: When The Cold War Seemed Hot: Nike Missiles Around Metro Detroit, And A Nuclear Warhead On Belle Isle
Between 1955 and 1974, a nuclear war with the Soviet Union seemed like a possibility. We armed ourselves by...
Season 4 – Episode 8: Hammerin’ Hank Greenberg, How a Jewish Kid from the Bronx became a Detroit Tiger Great
Hank Greenberg, who entered the Hall of Fame as one of the greatest hitters in the game’s history, was...
Season 4 – Episode 7: The 1960s and General Motors: Consumerism Hits The Big Three
GM spied on a gadfly and got caught. It was the ’60s, and it changed the auto industry forever....
Season 4 – Episode 6: No-No Boy and the Japanese-American Migration to Detroit
Barely two months after the attack on Pearl Harbor, President Franklin Roosevelt issued Executive Order #9066. Some 120,000 Japanese...
Season 4 – Episode 5: Vernors, The Nectar of the Gods
James Vernor invented his ginger ale in downtown Detroit just after the Civil War. More than 15 decades later,...
Season 4 – Episode 4: Black Bottom: The Rise, the Fall, and the Rise of a Detroit Neighborhood
For decades, segregation forced African-Americans migrating from the South to Detroit into one neighborhood: “Black “Bottom,” an area just...
Season 4 – Episode 3: The Haunting of The Whitney
Waiter, is there a ghost in my soup? The Whitney, one of Detroit’s great restaurants, began life as a...
Season 4 – Episode 2: The Detroit-Windsor Tunnel, The Sub-Aquatic Ambassador
An underwater tale of two cities. With the auto industry booming and with Detroit’s population surging in the 1920s,...
Season 4 – Episode 1: The Scene, The Hippest Show in Detroit in the 70s and 80s
Black Detroiters were invisible on local TV then . . . ‘The Scene’ changed it all The low-budget,...
Special Edition- The Polio Outbreak
With a terrible virus sweeping the nation, the word “vaccine” dominated headlines for months. Not COVID-19, but polio. Not...
Season 3 Finale: The Deindustrialization of Detroit
Some look at Detroit today and wonder how the abandoned buildings got here. What happened between The Arsenal of...
Season 3 – Episode 09: Lottie The Body, The Burlesque Queen of Detroit
Burlesque legend Lottie Graves-Claiborne wowed ’em on several continents, sharing the stage with numerous worldwide stars. But throughout her...
Season 3 – Episode 08: Birds of a Feather- Bowling, Belgians, Beer, Pigeons, and the Cadieux Cafe
A historic cafe has morphed its way through generations of change, and still … still … there is the...
Season 3 – Episode 07: The Politics of Fear
In 1952, famed historian David Maraniss’s father, Elliott Maraniss, was fired by the Detroit Times, the city’s Hearst daily...
Season 4 – Finale: Jeff Montgomery, Detroit’s Fierce LGBTQ+ Rights Activist
Jeff Montgomery was a born activist who played an important role in saving Orchestra Hall. When a hate crime...