Created Equal

Today on "Created Equal," we share highlights from this week's episodes, including a new book about grief and rock widows from music writer and author Lori Tucker-Sullivan; accessibility problems at a staggering amount of Metro Detroit polling locations and more.

Now that the major parties have officially selected their presidential nominees and the conventions have passed, how do the two candidates stack up? To discuss this, Washington Post columnist E.J. Dionne, political analyst Jessica Taylor, and WDET reporter and All Things Considered host Russ McNamara joined "Created Equal."

A staggering amount of metro Detroit’s polling stations are not accessible for disabled people — 84%, according to a 2022 audit by Detroit Disability Power. Another, less visible, barrier to democratic participation is equitable access to information. Yet nearly half of Detroit households don’t have broadband access. Today on "Created Equal," Detroit Disability Power Executive Director Dessa Cosma and Penn State telecommunications professor Christopher Ali join to discuss democratic participation and the lack of equitable access to voting and information in Detroit. Editor's note: A previously uploaded version of this episode included incorrect audio from an earlier episode of the show about grief and loss.

Music writer and author Lori Tucker-Sullivan joins "Created Equal" to discuss her new book, "I Can't Remember If I Cried: Rock Widows on Life, Love, and Legacy." Tucker-Sullivan, whose own husband died from cancer, shares with us what lessons she learned about grief from these compelling women.

Today on "Created Equal," we share highlights from this week's episodes, including a discussion about the Morrill Act and how state universities profit from land taken from Native Americans; and reactions to last week’s DNC from a panel of political insiders.

On today's episode of "Created Equal," host Stephen Henderson and a panel of political insiders react to the first three days of the Democratic National Convention.

In 1862, the federal government passed the Morrill Act which ultimately allocated over 10 million acres of land to states to start and develop colleges. But the federal government acquired the land from Native Americans through unfair treaties, seizures or agreements, and a recent report from the nonprofit media organization Grist investigated how a number of land-grant universities continue to profit from the land. Today on "Created Equal," we're joined by Tristan Ahtone, editor-at-large of Grist, and Steve Yanni, land grant director for Bay Mills Community College, to discuss the report and the the history and mission of tribal colleges and universities.

In museums across the U.S., you can see artifacts and human remains that belong to the native peoples who were here before our country existed. However, the latest federal regulations require museums and federal agencies to identify and return Native American remains and belongings. On today's episode of "Created Equal," we speak with Chip Colwell a curator of anthropology at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science for 12 years, to discuss the movement to reconcile science and history with the delicate nature of native possessions. 

Host Stephen Henderson and producer Cary Junior recap this week's episodes of "Created Equal," including how the Michigan Supreme Court's ruling on the state's minimum wage increase will impact businesses and workers, what the rest of the Midwest can learn from Minnesota policy and more.