Our Episodes
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 newspaper. This happened on the very day congressional witch hunters...
Season 03 – Episode 06: The Evangelista Occult Murders
Benny Evangelista found Detroit’s near East Side fertile territory for dispensing pay-as-you-go insights into the lives of his working-class clientele. He was known in the neighborhood as a “divine...
Season 3 – Episode 05: Far from New Orleans, Long Before Motown, Jazz Became Detroit’s Pulse
The magnet of good-paying factory jobs and the nurturing influence of an excellent public school music program helped make Detroit a hotbed of jazz and the hometown of many...
Season 3 – Episode 04: They Sat Down and Rocked The Boat: Walter Reuther’s Blue-Collar Revolution
He came to Detroit as a high-school dropout raised in hardscrabble West Virginia. The career arc that followed — from diemaker at Henry Ford’s Ford Rouge Plant to confidant...
Season 3 – Episode 03: From Midnight to Windsor, Detroit’s Underground Railroad
From Dr. King’s march on Woodward to Cobo Hall where he delivered an early version of his “I Have a Dream” speech, to Coleman Young’s election in 1973, to...
Season 3 – Episode 02: How WABX Radio and Plum Street Put the Counter in Counter-Culture
In the late 60s, a thunderously enduring upheaval occurred in the musical and cultural landscape. Young Americans, knowingly or not, were overdue for something other than Top 40 music...
Season 3 – Episode 01: 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...
Special Release: Detroit’s Response to the 1918 Spanish Flu
When COVID-19 began to ravage the world, many health experts compared it to the 1918 Spanish Flu. What are the similarities? Nearly 100 years ago, the United States was...
Our Season 2 Finale- How The Klan Almost Elected A Mayor
Detroit was becoming an eclectic mix of cultures during the 1920s — African-Americans from the south, immigrants from southern Europe, and a growing Catholic population. The Ku Klux Klan...
Season 2 – Episode 09: The Legend Of The Nain Rouge
There must be some reason behind Detroit’s bad luck in the last three-plus centuries. We have the explanation: Du Nain Rouge in French, or the Red Dwarf in English....
Season 2 – Episode 08: General Motors in the 1920s: How A Struggling Company Became the Chrome Colossus
In 1920, General Motors was a company in trouble. Its founder was fired – for a second time. Henry Ford was eating GM’s lunch with his Model T. But...
Season 2 – Episode 07: Milliken v. Bradley, The Case Of Cross-District Busing
The topic of busing proved to be one of the most volatile issues in metro Detroit during the early 1970s. This came to a head in the case of...
