How A Flint Attorney Helped Strike Down Virginia’s Poll Tax And Changed American Voting Rights
A Flint lawyer helped end a Jim Crow relic—and the hometown paper barely noticed. We sit down with Robert Steiger, a retired civil rights at...
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We present audio and video podcasts about life and culture in middle America. Our essays and life histories share the story of people in America's rust belt.This podcast is born of blue-coll...
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Cold Case: How AFIS And DNA Unmasked A Hidden Killer
Margarette Eby was murdered in 1986 . In an investigation led by Genesee County (MI) Prosecutor Arthur Busch and the Michigan State Police,...
John Prine’s America, Hymns for the Working Class
A vanished hometown. A son who came back different. An elder on a quiet porch waiting for someone to say hello. We follow John Prine’s trail...
Saigon’s Baby Airlift: A Flint Medic’s Story
Remastered edition: re‑edited and shortened for clarity and pace. A cargo aircraft built for tanks, not toddlers. A city collapsing in April...
A Flint Athlete’s Journey From High School Stardom To Optometry
Remastered edition: re-edited and shortened for clarity and pace. We trace Jeff Natchez’s path from Flint open gyms and sandlots to a Detroi...
Joe Ryan III: From Flint to Hollywood — The Sound of a New Generation
Flint, Michigan, has given the world legendary athletes—now meet one of its rising musical icons. Joe Ryan III is a producer, songwriter, co...
Can Minnesota Prosecute an ICE Agent?
Do federal officials have “absolute immunity” from state criminal law? No. But they do have a powerful defense described as the Supremacy Cl...
A Republic at War With Itself: Militarized Policing and the Slow Erosion of Civil Liberties
Over the past thirty-five years, the United States has quietly transformed its criminal-justice system into something resembling a permanent...
Flint on the Brink: Who Governs After Collapse—Broken Systems, Billion-Dollar Philanthropy, and Flint-First Leadership
Flint on the Brink is a clear-eyed examination of an American rust-belt city struggling to decide who controls its future. In this episode,...
Bad Water, Kids, Big Money, and Lawyers
When water systems fail, the damage is not the same for everyone. In Flint, the deepest harm lives in children’s brains. In other cities, th...
Leaving Flint to See America on a Schwinn Bicycle
I Left My Blue-Collar Hometown On A Schwinn And Learned How The "Other Half" Actually Lives Have you ever felt that crushing pressure to lea...
Inside Anatomy of a Murder
This is a short excerpt from an upcoming episode of Flint Justice . In this preview, Arthur Busch explores the real Michigan homicide case t...
John D. Voelker and Anatomy of a Murder: Law, Doubt, and Justice in Michigan
In 1952, a saloon killing in a small Upper Peninsula town became one of the most important—and controversial—criminal trials in Michigan his...
The Age of Anxiety: Political Media, Dementia, and the Boomer Fear
The Age of Anxiety: Political Media, Dementia, and the Boomer Fear In Michigan living rooms—from Flint to Saginaw to small towns up north—ol...
Inside Detroit’s 99th Thanksgiving Parade:On-the-Ground Coverage by Arthur Busch
Join Arthur Busch on location in downtown Detroit as he takes you inside the magic of the 99th Annual America’s Thanksgiving Parade . In thi...
She Dodged Bullets for the UAW — and Her Legacy Still Haunts the Auto Industry
In 1937, a 23-year-old Flint woman stood between General Motors security, Flint police gunfire, and the workers fighting for their lives ins...
When Flint Fought Back: Genora Johnson and the Strike That Changed America
In 1937, a 23-year-old Flint woman stood between General Motors security, Flint police gunfire, and the workers fighting for their lives ins...
DETROIT RISING: A Photo Tour of Motor City's Amazing Comeback | The Mitten Channel
Welcome to the Detroit comeback. With a voice as warm and familiar as the streets themselves, we take a tour of the Motor City's stunni...
Flint’s 1937 Sit-down Strike Saved Wages, Work, and Democracy
The Flint Sit-Down Strike of 1936–37 wasn’t just a labor dispute — it was a turning point in American history . In this short documentary se...
The Michigan Murderer: John Norman Collins and the Ypsilanti Terror
He was handsome, popular, and lived the perfect fraternity life in Ann Arbor. But behind John Norman Collins’s all-American image lurked one...