Photo Essays
Hatred on the Home Front: The Detroit Race Riots, June 1943
The popular notion that the American home front during World War II was a place of unclouded unity, sacrifice and common purpose is — like most overly simplified...
Detroit Is Burning: Photos From the 1967 Riots
Forty-five years ago, during the long, hot summer of 1967, the city of Detroit erupted in one of the deadliest and costliest riots in the history of the United...
Detroit's Hair Wars
In a city where hairstyling is big business, the annual display of salon talent is part art, part entertainment and all attitude. Here is a selection of the best...
Highlights of the Detroit Motor Show
The North American International Auto Show opened in Detroit this week with plenty of new vehicles and prototypes to ogle, touch and ponder. Here are some of...
A Detroit Food Bank Gets Food To Where It's Needed Most
The Gleaners Community Food Bank "nourishes communities by feeding hungry people."Photographs by Anthony Suau / Facingchange.org
Cars from the 2012 Detroit Auto Show
The hottest models to watch at the North American International Auto Show
Detroit Fights Devil's Night
The city combats Halloween-time arson, a deadly local custom
A Day in the Life of Detroit Mayor Bing
The former basketball player takes the reins of a troubled city Photographs by Romain Blanquart for TIME
Detroit School Kids' Dreams of the Future
Kids from Ann Arbor Elementary School and Cody High School share their hopes with TIME Photographs and Interviews by Corine Vermeulen for TIME
Detroit's Beautiful, Horrible Decline
Two French photographers immortalize the remains of the motor city on film Photographs by Yves Marchand and Romain Meffre
The Remains of Detroit
Photographer Sean Hemmerle finds an elegiac sign of America's fading industrial might in the crumbling urban ruins of the Motor City
Detroit Made Small
Photographer Olivo Barbieri brings his startling tilt-shift technique to the Motor City to illustrate TIME's story on the city's shrinkage
Underground Economy: The Big Salt Mine in Detroit
Nearly 1,200 feet beneath the city, workers excavate one of the continent's robust salt reservesPhotographs by Lisa Kereszi for TIME
The March on Washington, August 1963: Power to the People
So many scenes from the August 28, 1963, March on Washington are now familiar to so many of us — and the cadence of Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream”...
Martin and Lewis, Berserk Superstars
There’s a storied tradition in show business that involves two seemingly incompatible but ultimately inextricable buddies — it’s almost always two men, by the...
Grosse Pointe Moms Club
The financial upheavals of the past two years have brought a different life to the tony suburbs of Detroit Photographs by Doug DuBois for TIME
Who Is Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab?
A glimpse into the life of the 23-year-old who authorities say tried to bring down a flight from Amsterdam to Detroit
