- Detroiters Speak Winter 2025: Rethinking Education Justice
- Fall 2023 - Desti-Nations of Hip Hop
- Winter 2022: Making Labor Work - Organizing for Power in the 21st Century
- Winter 2021: Pandemic Politics - From Lockdown to Liberation (Virtual)
- Fall 2020 with General Baker Institute: Policing Black Power - From Watts to Detroit (Virtual)
- Fall 2020: Healing Justice (Virtual)
- Winter 2020: Detroit 2020 - People, Power, & Politics
- Fall 2019: Healing Justice Workshop Series
- Winter 2019: Whose Safety? Policing Minds, Bodies, and Borders in Detroit
- Fall 2018 Workshop Series: Healing Justice as Building Cultural Resilience
- Winter 2018: From "Two Societies" to a New Society
- Fall 2017: Reclaiming the Commons
- Summer 2017: Beyond '67 - The City-Wide Citizen's Action Committee
- Winter 2017: Toward Education Justice
- Detroiters Speak Archive
History
For over 10 years, Semester in Detroit has organized community classroom events that are free and open to the public. In recent years, SiD has collaborated with Wayne State University's Department of African Studies, the Detroit Equity Action Lab, the Cass Corridor Commons and the General Baker Institute to bring Detroit community members, U-M + WSU students, faculty and staff together to learn more about Detroit's past and present. The format varies from traditional panels to poetry readings to trips to jazz and cultural clubs throughout Detroit. Previous topics of discussion have focused on Education Justice to the Contemporary Labor Movement to Policing in Detroit.
Access to Previous Sessions:
Use the side navigation to watch videos and access readings associated with previous semesters of Detroiters Speak.
Upcoming Sessions:
We are gearing up for a special edition of Detroiters Speak for the fall 2023 semester that will focus on Detroit hip-hop and its place in the broader recognition of hip-hop's 50th anniversary.
