17 episodes
StoryCorps Detroit WDET
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- Society & Culture
StoryCorps seeks to preserve and share humanity’s stories in order to build connections between people and create a more just and compassionate world. StoryCorps Detroit features interviews recorded in the StoryCorps MobileBooth when it stopped in at the Detroit Institute of Arts in the summer of 2017.
Sascha Raiyn is the host. Laura Herberg is the executive producer. StoryCorps Detroit is a production of WDET 101.9 FM and supported by the Detroit Historical Society.
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How I Became Muslim
Lehman Robinson converted to Islam when he was a teenager working at a secular Michigan summer camp. In this episode of StoryCorps Detroit, he tells his roommate what prompted him to do so.
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"Someone I Could Be Myself With"
Musician Spencer Barefield and his wife, artist Barbara Barefield, first met in the 1970s at a jazz club in the Cass Corridor neighborhood.
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Is this Detroit Institution Under-Rated?
This week's StoryCorps Detroit interviewees talk up their favorite Detroit gem.
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How is the Force Today?
Detroit Institute of Arts Museum Director Salvador Salort-Pons interviews his friend and colleague, Security Guard Roderick Walker.
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Drawing Monsters on the Hudson Building
In the mid-1990s, a Detroit artist brightened up the boarded-over display windows of the Hudson Building with chalk drawings of monsters. His renderings were on the iconic structure when it was blown up.
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What Happens When a Father is Deported?
A mother and daughter from Detroit discuss how the deportation of their family's patriarch still affects them almost 15 years later.