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Christy McDonald reflects on loss of beloved husband Jamie Samuelsen ‘Start to have the conversation with your doctor about making a plan,’ McDonald said Tags:  Local 4′s Devin Scillian sat down with Samuelsen’s wife, Christy McDonald. March is Colon Cancer Awareness Month and she’s taking up the cause to honor her husband. Ad “People say, ‘You’re so strong.’ And I say, ‘I am. I am really not.’ And to be able to admit that is OK too. That I’m not OK all the time,” McDonald is a journalist and anchor at Detroit Public Television. Her job is information. She now has w...

All of us have had them during this pandemic, however, each of them is different and unique to our personal circumstance.

Having uncomfortable conversations about race: How do we start? Tags:  The questions is: “How do we start?” Local 4′s Devin Scillian sat down with former Detroit City Councilwoman Sheila Cockrel and Focus Hope CEO Portia Roberson to talk about how people can engage with others on the topic. You can watch the full conversation in the video above. MORE: About the Author: Devin Scillian is equally at home on your television, on your bookshelf, and on your stereo. Devin anchors the evening newscasts for Local 4. Additionally, he moderates Flashpoint, Local 4's Sunday morning news program...

Listen to Devin Scillian’s reading of ‘Pappy’s Handkerchief,’ story of Black family’s journey to Oklahoma Land Run Tags:  The great Oklahoman Will Rogers once said, “You’ve got to go out on a limb sometimes because that’s where the fruit is.” Rogers’ home state was founded by people who believed exactly that. In settling the Oklahoma Territory, they were out on a limb grasping for the fruit we’ve come to know as the American dream. The day of April 22, 1889 began with an empty plain in Oklahoma. By nightfall, homesteads stretched to the horizon, and Oklahoma City and...

We talked with Duggan about the challenges of the COVID-19 vaccine Sunday on Flashpoint. Then the “other” pandemic -- the mental health struggles of young people after a year of COVID-19. From pretty much the beginning, we’ve wondered about the toll the pandemic has been taking on all of us from a mental health standpoint. Studies are now making clear what many feared, that it’s having a deep and damaging impact on teenagers. There was a discussion on the issue with two health professionals including pediatrician Dr. Lynn Smitherman from Wayne State University and Mary Beth Garvey, a ...