Robyn Vincent

Detroit

Co-Host, The Metro at WDET-FM (Detroit MI)

Co-host of The Metro on @WDET | Multimedia journalist 🎙️✍🏾📸 in America's great underdog city | Daughter of an immigrant | @AMEJA+@IRE_NICAR

Articles

Flint program providing financial support to new moms expands to Wayne County

1 week ago | wdet.org | Robyn Vincent |Tia Graham |Cary Junior II

Subscribe to The Metro on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, NPR.org or wherever you get your podcasts. The U.S. health care system hasn’t been great about taking care of expectant mothers, especially moms of color. Data has shown that stark racial disparities in maternal and infant health have existed for decades, with Black and American Indian mothers more likely to die as a result of childbirth. In Detroit, a lot of expectant moms face grim outcomes in a number of ways.
Dr. Abdul El-Sayed enters US Senate race in Michigan

1 week ago | wdet.org | Sam Corey |Robyn Vincent

Subscribe to The Metro on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, NPR.org or wherever you get your podcasts. The race for the U.S. Senate in Michigan is heating up. Dr. Abdul El-Sayed declared Thursday morning he is running for the state’s open Senate seat next year. El-Sayed, who is running as a Democrat, previously served as the head of the Department of Health and Human Services for Wayne County. Before that, he ran for governor in 2018 and lost in the primary to now-Governor Gretchen Whitmer.
Former US Attorney Barb McQuade on Trump’s defiance of court orders

1 week ago | wdet.org | Sam Corey |Robyn Vincent

Subscribe to The Metro on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, NPR.org or wherever you get your podcasts. Last month, the U.S. government deported Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a native of El Salvador who has lived in Maryland for the past 15 years — ignoring a federal court order forbidding his removal. Garcia, who was detained for alleged association with the MS-13 gang, is now being detained at the Center for Terrorism Confinement in El Salvador.
Nonprofit aims to conserve bird habitats in metro Detroit

1 week ago | wdet.org | Jack Filbrandt |Tia Graham |Robyn Vincent

Subscribe to The Metro on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, NPR.org or wherever you get your podcasts. Global warming and climate change poses a significant threat to two-thirds of North American bird species, according to the National Audubon Society. These impacts are causing many birds to leave their homes and relocate to places more favorable for their species, including in southeast Michigan.
Child amputees from Gaza get treatment, hope in Detroit

1 week ago | wdet.org | Robyn Vincent

Subscribe to The Metro on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, NPR.org or wherever you get your podcasts. Crowds at Detroit Metro Airport recently cheered and sang as four children from Gaza arrived in wheelchairs. The children are amputees and are among thousands in Gaza who have lost limbs from Israeli bombardments. Now, they face severe, life-altering injuries.
New book reexamines chronic absenteeism and potential solutions

1 week ago | wdet.org | Robyn Vincent |Cary Junior II

Subscribe to The Metro on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, NPR.org or wherever you get your podcasts. Last school year, the number of Michigan students who missed more than 10% of school days was among the highest in the nation, at nearly 30%. And the rate among Detroit students was more than double that. Wayne State University researchers Jeremy Singer and Sarah Lenhoff study educational equity. They believe the first step is to think of the problem differently.
Navigating an uncertain stock market

2 weeks ago | wdet.org | Sam Corey |David Leins |Robyn Vincent

Subscribe to The Metro on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, NPR.org or wherever you get your podcasts. Economists are describing what’s happening in the markets as volatile. President Donald Trump placed double-digit tariffs on many countries around the world last week, including those in Europe, China and Japan, among others. After these actions, the markets tanked. Over two days the stock market lost over $6 trillion.
Attorney representing pro-Palestine protester detained at Detroit Metro Airport

2 weeks ago | wdet.org | Sam Corey |Robyn Vincent

Subscribe to The Metro on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, NPR.org or wherever you get your podcasts. Many free speech advocates are alarmed as the Trump administration revokes visas for hundreds of international students. Those students could face deportation for committing traffic violations or participating in political activism. In both circumstances, this kind of federal action is rare. Students are always at risk of losing their status for criminal convictions, but rarely for political demonstrations.
Investigation probes unprecedented number of journalists killed in Gaza

2 weeks ago | wdet.org | Robyn Vincent

Subscribe to The Metro on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, NPR.org or wherever you get your podcasts. A new report from the Costs of War project at Brown University’s Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs is calling Gaza a “news graveyard.”At least 232 journalists and media workers have been killed since the war in Gaza began. Some appear to have been targeted by the Israeli army, while others were killed alongside civilians.
Increased measles concerns with cases on the rise

2 weeks ago | wdet.org | Robyn Vincent

Subscribe to The Metro on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, NPR.org or wherever you get your podcasts. More Americans are getting sick from preventable illnesses, especially kids. Here in Michigan, measles cases have recently been confirmed in Oakland, Macomb, and Kent counties. In Texas, two children have died from measles. Both were unvaccinated. Health experts say measles deaths could become more common, marking a shift backwards.