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Detroit Public Theatre’s Holiday Cabaret, Kwanzaa 2024 at The Wright Museum
Season 52
Episode 51
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‘Fat Ham’ play in Detroit, Actor Roger Guenveur Smith
Season 52
Episode 41
A look at the Pulitzer Prize-winning play “Fat Ham” at Detroit Public Theatre. Host Stephen Henderson talks with the play’s lead actor, Duane Shabazz, and the theater’s Marketing Manager Garlia Jones. Plus, contributor Cecelia Sharpe sits down with actor Roger Guenveur Smith at The Wright Museum in Detroit to talk about his collaborations with Spike Lee and the impact of literature on his career.
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National Minority Health Month and the NFL Draft’s impact on tourism in Detroit.
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The Wolverine Bar’s Barristers’ Ball, attorney Ben Crump and jazz drummer Brian Blade.
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‘The Best of the Best: Jazz from Detroit,” film, “Regeneration” Black cinema exhibit.
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Wayne State University’s Black men’s health symposium and the 20th annual Bookstock.
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A conversation with poet Nikki Giovanni and an eight-year-old Detroit girl’s viral story.
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Detroit’s Neighborhood Vitality Index and Ruth E. Carter’s exhibit at the Wright Museum.
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Grow Detroit’s Young Talent summer jobs program and Detroit DJ Stacey “Hotwaxx” Hale.
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Two Detroit ministers discuss artificial intelligence’s impact on the Black community.
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Heart disease in Black women, The Carr Center’s new exhibit, and the NFL Draft in Detroit.
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American Black Journal explores Detroit’s impact on gospel music and Black spirituality.
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A new PBS “GOSPEL” docuseries, techno producer Carl Craig and violinist Nathan Amaral.