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College students in Michigan, and around the country, have been organizing and protesting over the past year for more racial inclusion on college…

Michigan has been scolding "you're going to pay for that!" to young offenders across the state for close to two decades. This punishment comes in forms…

Dr. Vincent Felitti, father of the seminal Adverse Childhood Experience (ACE) study that has informed so much of State of Opportunity’s reporting and…

When I was in eighth grade my social studies teacher explained to my class the difference between Democrats and Republicans.This lesson in American…

This is the version of our story that aired on Michigan Radio. To hear an extended version of our interview with Robin DiAngelo on the theory of white…

Chamonique Griffith stands in front of her second-graders on a Thursday morning, about to try something that, for her, is new."How many of you know that I…

I was 11 years old, a small black child in Detroit with crooked pink glasses and a slight Michigan accent. I stood surrounded by a group of liberal,…

Fifty years ago this week, President Lyndon Johnson sat down at a table in Texas to sign one of the most important pieces of education legislation in the…

It’s not easy for us to think about homeless kids, so many of us don’t. But we should. The Homestretch, a new documentary you can watch on PBS Detroit…

There's an idea that's taken hold in the past few years about why it is that poor people, on average, eat less healthy food and have higher rates of…