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

The important legacy and activism behind Motor City Pride

2 days ago | wdet.org | Robyn Vincent

The streets of Detroit will be filled with color and courage this weekend as Motor City Pride returns to Hart Plaza June 7-8. The annual festival and parade is Michigan’s largest LGBTQ+ pride event, but it offers much more than just a celebration. Fifty-six years after the Stonewall Uprising ignited the modern movement for LGBTQ rights, Pride remains both a celebration and a protest. And in 2025, that duality feels more urgent.
The Metro: DIA to add Tiff Massey's work to permanent collection

5 days ago | wdet.org | Tia Graham |Robyn Vincent |Nadia Zyiad

The Detroit Institute of Arts is a world-renowned museum. But, but how many pieces in its collection are made by a Detroiter? Tiff Massey’s “Baby Bling” will soon be acquired by the DIA. Salvador Salort-Pons, the museum’s Director, told the Metro that the DIA is acquiring “Baby Bling” from Massey and adding it to the museum’s permanent collection.
Skillman Foundation CEO shares strategies for supporting Detroit youth

1 week ago | wdet.org | Robyn Vincent

The Skillman Foundation is one of Detroit’s most influential philanthropic organizations, using millions of dollars to shape education policy and priorities in the city. As Detroit’s public schools struggle with chronic underfunding, low literacy rates, and crumbling infrastructure, Skillman’s decisions hold real weight for educators, parents and children.
Michigan US Sen. Gary Peters on 'passing the torch'

1 week ago | wdet.org | Robyn Vincent

Michigan U.S. Sen. Gary Peters is preparing to retire after a decades-long career in politics and public service. Peters has championed Michigan’s Great Lakes, leading efforts that brought nearly a billion dollars in restoration funds to the state. He’s passed legislation to protect the mental health of veterans. And he’s fought for critical infrastructure — securing funding for the Soo Locks, a lifeline for Michigan industries.
Activists speak out against Enbridge Line 5 expansion

1 week ago | wdet.org | Robyn Vincent

Enbridge’s Line 5 oil pipeline cuts beneath the Great Lakes, stretching over 600 miles and crossing beneath the Straits of Mackinac. For decades, the pipeline has raised concerns because of its potential to spill oil and contaminate water for millions of Americans. This water is also a source of sustenance, culture and sovereignty for tribal communities. Now, Enbridge has a proposal on the table to build a new oil tunnel to replace a section of Line 5.
Axios reporter Annalise Frank previews the Detroit mayoral debate

1 week ago | wdet.org | Robyn Vincent

Countless media organizations and journalists attend the Mackinac Policy Conference to gain a better understanding of what business, nonprofit and political leaders are doing to try to improve the state. Annalise Frank, a reporter covering Detroit for Axios, is among them. She joined The Metro to talk about the Detroit mayoral debate planned for Thursday night and what else she is covering at this year’s conference.
Debbie Dingell on what the Democratic Party stands for

1 week ago | wdet.org | Robyn Vincent

In 2016, many liberals didn’t take Donald Trump seriously. They thought that he was wacky, ridiculous, offensive, and not a serious candidate for president. But during that time, Congresswoman Debbie Dingell thought differently. She was speaking with her constituents Downriver, and it was prior to President Trump’s first term that she realized he was well-liked, that he had a good chance at becoming the most powerful person in America.
Devin Scillian on his career, attacks on the media

1 week ago | wdet.org | Robyn Vincent |Jenny Sherman

News media has changed a lot. In just the last decade, people have more access to information than they have in human history. That’s changed the state of journalism. And in the last eight years, some journalists and scholars say news outlets — like CNN, the New York Times and NPR member stations like WDET — are under attack.
Detroit DJ Ember LaFiamma is among techno's next wave

2 weeks ago | wdet.org | Robyn Vincent |Tia Graham

Ember LaFiamma is part of the future Detroit promised. She grew up in the city surrounded by the sound — techno, house, ghetto tech— without knowing what the world called it by name. Later, she learned that the music that shaped her was born right here. Her journey deepened at the Underground Music Academy, where she learned to build beats from scratch and sharpened her skills as a DJ and producer. There, she began to truly understand the legacy — and the labor — behind the sound.
Detroit built techno on grit and genius. What will it take to sustain it?

2 weeks ago | wdet.org | Robyn Vincent

Detroit made techno. It was born in Black brilliance, forged in sweat, steel, and speaker stacks. The early days were gritty, raw, and unapologetically underground. Raves in asbestos-riddled warehouses. DJ booths balanced on plywood. Sweaty bodies packed into buildings with no heat, no permits, just purpose. The Packard Plant, Mack and Bellevue, and the Eastown Theatre were places the city gave up on. But the music briefly revived them. Bass shook the dust loose.