Series & Documentaries

Earlier this week, my colleague Dustin Dwyer brought you Pushed Out: A documentary on housing in Grand Rapids, our final State of Opportunity documentary.…

The fates of neighborhoods and schools are intimately intertwined. That's especially true in high-poverty areas like Detroit. You can see those fates…

In part one of our State of Opportunity documentary, We Live Here, we spent time in Littlefield — a Detroit neighborhood right on the edge. It’s trying…

There are 25 schools in Detroit waiting to hear whether they’ll be closing their doors at the end of the school year.So, where would all those students…

(Support trusted journalism like this in Michigan. Give what you can here.)Over the last 15 years, cities across the country have faced wave after wave of…

Poor kids in Michigan, and across the country, do worse in school than their wealthier peers.That’s particularly true for kids attending schools where…

It was a blisteringly hot summer afternoon in Detroit. East Lafayette street was blocked off from car traffic. A few hundred people walked in unison down…

The following is a transcript of the State of Opportunity documentary Out From the Shadows: Living Undocumented, which you can hear at 3 p.m. and 10 p.m.…

Right now, somewhere around 11 million people are living "illegal" lives in the United States. That's close to one out of every 30 people in this country,…

JulisaAbad was was never kicked out of her home. She was never in the child welfare system. But her dad stopped talking to her years ago. We spoke to her…