Set during the 2008 recession, Skeleton Crew explores the lives of auto workers at a struggling Detroit stamping plant. Read more about where Dominique, the Motor City, and the auto industry have recently hit the news.
An Interview with Dominique Morisseau
In a July 2017 interview with The Interval, Dominique Morisseau discusses her most recent play Pipeline, cultivating new audiences for theatre, and major themes in her work.
The Call-In: Detroit's Riots Of 1967
This July 2017 NPR story features Detroit locals reflecting on the 1967 riots 50 years later. They discuss what led to the riots, the effects–immediate and long-term–and what to call it: a riot, uprising, or rebellion?
Life for Detroit’s blacks over the years: vibrant and volatile
In this July 2017 opinion piece for The Washington Post, Barbara Ransby, a longtime activist and a professor of African American studies, gender and women’s studies and history at the University of Illinois at Chicago, reflects on Herb Boyd’s recent book Black Detroit: A People’s History of Self-Determination and how it intersects with her own memories of growing up in the city during the 1960s and 1970s, and how Detroit’s political and cultural landscape has evolved over time.
This January 2017 article from The New York Times details a recently completed project in Detroit to replace 88,000 old and broken streetlights with 65,000 new LED ones. The article discusses the community effects of this completed project–one that was on-time and under-budget–while explaining the social and political context for Detroit’s rejuvenation projects.
After Years of Growth, Automakers Are Cutting U.S. Jobs
A July 2017 article from The New York Times about the U.S. auto industry’s recent rise in past few years, and what 2017’s post-peak decline might mean for the future of the industry.