The Week That Was on Deadline Detroit

Host Nancy Derringer talks with seasoned lawyers Steve Fishman, Bill Seikaly, and Joel Sklar; labor and community activist Barb Ingalls; and Deadline Detroit co-founder Allan Lengel. (Regular host Saeed Khan is on the road.) They talk about: the end of the U.S. Supreme Court term, with major decisions on birthright citizenship, executive power, and transgender rights; a bounty of hilarity—the refl...

Hosts Vanessa Moss, Allan Lengel, and Jim Nardone talk about the Constitution on July 4, birthright citizenship, Supreme Court Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito, and carrying guns.

Hosts Vanessa Moss, Allan Lengel and Jim Nardone talk about rats and cockroaches and landlords who fail to keep rental properties up to standards. The panel's advice for renters with issues like rats: Notify the landlord in writing immediately, document evidence, and report the violation to BSEED (Buildings, Safety Engineering and Environmental Department) to initiate a formal, free property...

The New York Congressional Democrats who were endorsed by Mayor Zohran Mamdani did well last Tuesday night. Is that a good indicator of where the Democrats are headed? Or will the Democratic Party's U.S. Senate race in Michigan with progressive Abdul El-Sayed be a better measure of where the country is headed? The Week That Was host Saeed Khan discusses the matter with guests: freelancer and...

Host Saeed Khan talks with guests: Detroit Police Commissioner and public relations specialist Beverly Watts; seasoned attorneys Bill Seikaly and Joel Sklar; community and labor activist Barb Ingalls; veteran journalist Nancy Derringer; and Deadline Detroit co-founder Allan Lengel. They talk about: President Donald Trump's questionable truce with Iran; the cursed reflecting pool; Michigan GOP...

Wayne County Executive Warren Evans says he's lobbying community leaders to help pass a countywide public transportation millage that will fund and expand the SMART bus service.  "The transit system is so important to Wayne County — to have a good, solid transit system," Evans said during an interview Saturday on the videocast/podcast Detroit in Black and White. "Macomb's...

Host Saeed Khan talks with veteran attorneys Steve Fishman and Joel Sklar; veteran journalist Nancy Derringer; and Deadline Detroit co-founder Allan Lengel. They talk about: Trump storms off interview on Meet the Press; Michigan GOP gubernatorial candidates court one vote: Trump’s. Will he endorse anyone and, if so, when? Primaries in Maine, South Carolina and Los Angeles show Trump still on the b...

Hosts Adolph Mongo, Vanessa Moss and Allan Lengel talk about pressing issues of the week including whether Mayor Mary Sheffield should take any responsibility while sitting on boards. The Detroit News reported this week as council member president, Sheffield sat on the People Mover board but never attended a meeting from 2023 to 2025 while an official for the agency was involved in a $300,000 kick...

Hosts Saeed Khan talks with guests, veteran lawyers Bill Seikaly and Joel Sklar; labor and community activist Barb Ingalls; veteran journalist Nancy Derringer and Deadline Detroit co-founder Allan Lengel. They talk about: Gov. Gretchen Whitmer says she won't run for president in 2028; could she and Mike Duggan end up being university presidents in Michigan? The Democratic U.S. Senate race; wi...

Hosts Vanessa Moss, Allan Lengel, and Jim Nardone talk about the clubby Mackinac Policy Conference, its exclusivity, and how it barred journalist Charlie LeDuff. They also discuss a judge's order to remove President Trump's name from the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., and the Grand Prix.

Hosts Adolph Mongo, Vanesa Moss, Allan Lengel and Jim Nardone talk with former Detroit Police Chief James Craig about Teen Takeovers and about his run for mayor. 

Detroit in Black and White hosts Adolph Mongo and Jim Nardone talk about the pressing issues of the week. Mongo rails against "so-called progressives," saying they're hurting the future of the Democratic party. They also talk with Justin Onwenu, a fourth-generation Detroiter, organizer, and attorney who is running for state senate.

Host Saeed Khan talks with former Fox 2 anchor Huel Perkins; veteran attorneys Steve Fishman, Bill Seikaly, and Joel Sklar; labor and community activist Barb Ingalls; veteran journalist Nancy Derringer; and Deadline Detroit co-founder Allan Lengel. They discuss: Did President Trump accomplish anything in China? Acting AG Todd Blanche warns reporters who receive classified information about potenti...

Hosts Vanessa Moss and Allan Lengel talk with Detroit community activist Nicole Small, who talks about reparations and what's happening, and not happening in Detroit. 

Hosts Adolph Mongo and Allan Lengel talk to Democratic state Sen. Mallory McMorrow, who explains why she thinks she's the best choice for U.S. Senate in Michigan. She talks about a host of issues, including data centers, cars, Israel, reparations, roads and differences on issues within the Democratic Party.

Host Saeed Khan talks with guests: veteran attorneys Steve Fishman, Bill Seikaly, and Joel Sklar; labor and community activist Barb Ingalls; veteran journalist Nancy Derringer; and Deadline Detroit co-founder Allan Lengel. They talk about: a gunman caught at the White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner; POTUS and FLOTUS calling for ABC to fire Jimmy Kimmel after the comedian’s joke; King Cha...

Hosts Allan Lengel and Jim Nardone talk about politicians looking down on less educated voters; the Trump administration sometimes ignoring more educated people in certain fields like health care, and owning a pit bull. 

Hosts Allan Lengel and Jim Nardone talk with attorney Leon Weiss, who works for the Conviction Integrity Unit of the Wayne County Prosecutor's Office, which has overturned dozens of wrongful convictions. Weiss also talks about his father, Rube Weiss, and his mother, Elizabeth Weiss, who were actors and did voice-overs for TV and radio commercials. Rube Weiss was also Santa Claus for many year...

Host Saeed Khan talks with guests, veteran attorneys Bill Seikaly, Steve Fishman and Joel Sklar; labor and community activist Barb Ingalls, veteran journalist Nancy Derringer and Deadline Detroit co-founder Allan Lengel. They talk about: Israel, Jewish Democrats and the Michigan Democratic  Convention; Trump and the Iran war;  Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear tells Dems to talk plain English; FBI Direct...

Hosts Adolph Mongo, Vanessa Moss, Allan Lengel, and Jim Nardone discuss identity theft, credit card scams, and Democratic Congressman Jamie Raskin’s push to create an independent commission to determine whether the president is fit to serve. They also discuss the competent military figures that Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth has fired.

Host Saeed Khan talks with veteran attorneys Steve Fishman, Bill Seikaly, and Joel Sklar; labor and community activist Barb Ingalls; and Deadline Detroit co-founder Allan Lengel. They discuss: men in Congress taking advantage of women; The DOJ firing of 2 Detroit prosecutors in abortion clinic case causes uproar among criminal defense attorneys and federal judges; Trump disparaging Pope Leo XIV; ...

Hosts Vanessa Moss, Allan Lengel and Jim Nardone talk about Mayor Mary Sheffield's press conference on a "Teen Takover," high rates some downtown Detroit parking lots are charging and people visiting Detroit for events.

Host Saeed Khan talks with guests, Detroit Free Press investigative columnist M.L. Elrick, veteran attorneys Steve Fishman and Joel Sklar, community and labor activist Barb Ingalls, veteran journalist Nancy Derringer and Deadline Detroit co-founder Allan Lengel. They talk about: U.S.-Iran ceasefire; Melania Trump's denial; Gov. Gretchen Whitmer withholds dndorsements in U.S. Senate and Secret...

Hosts Saeed Khan talks with public relations specialist and Detroit Police Commissioner Beverly Watts, veteran attorneys Bill Seikaly and Joe Sklar, labor and community activist Barb Ingalls, veteran journalist Nancy Derringer and Deadline Detroit co-founder Allan Lengel. They talk about: Trump’s address to the nation on Iran; Trump says that U.S. “doesn’t have to be there for NATO”;  Suspected Ir...

A crowd of teens converged in downtown Detroit Friday night as part of a “Downtown Takeover” that had been promoted on social media. Fox 2 reports that police detained some teens who were violating curfew. Detroit police say a gun was fired during the commotion, but no one was hurt. Detroit in Black and White hosts Vanessa Moss, Allan Lengel, and Jim Nardone talk with viewers about the “City Takeo...