It's been called the most important topic in Southeast Michigan...relations between the races in the most segregated metropolitan region in the country. And Bridging the Racial Divide, an innovative approach to dealing with this vital subject, is currently reaching audiences across Metro Detroit.

Part One - Watch it online
The 2000 Census named this metropolitan area as the most segregated region in the United States. This reality continues to generate a troubling series of social, economic and political problems. This first "Bridging" special examines Metro Detroit at the crossroads, exploring both the hope generated by the community's enormous Super Bowl success and the obstacles to further progress caused by this region's racial divide.

Part Two - Watch it online
More than four decades after the civil rights movement, segregated housing continues to carry heavy consequences in Metro Detroit, where the racial divide is the widest - and arguably the most costly - in the nation. Segregation has shaped communities that are separate and unequal, where those who can least afford it pay the heaviest price.

Those costs and consequences for all of us in this region are the subject of the second in our series of special programs on race relations, Bridging the Racial Divide. First, we'll sample opinion at three location in the metro area -- a fitness center in the central city, a college campus in Livonia, and at a bar in Macomb County. Then we'll select excerpts from these comments and use them to focus a discussion with our panel of opinion makers and experts to be taped before a live audience at Madonna University.

Not currently scheduled.

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