University of Michigan Solar Car Team aims to become the first American student team ever to win a five-day, grueling World Solar Challenge race across the Australian Outback. U-M's multimedia producer Marcin Szczepanski travels down under with the Team to document their struggle. The University of Michigan Solar Car Team is widely recognized as the best team in North America after capturing six U.S. National Championships and four top-three world finishes.More
Freddie Harris always thought he would die on the street. That he has survived the last 30 years is a minor miracle. He has battled not only homelessness, but also mental illness that can lock him in fear, depression, paranoia and confusion. Still, the self-taught artist has managed to create hundreds of drawings -- many of stunning quality -- using pencils, pens and spiral notebooks he bought from money earned collecting bottles and cans. More
With Motown Records celebrating its 50th anniversary, the Free Press went for the gold. Our staff traveled literally coast to coast uncovering stories that demonstrate the label's continued relevance. More
The behind the scenes look at Buick -- and GM -- extraordinary success and challenges in China. More
Catherine Ferguson Academy is a public high school in Detroit where dreams are born and nurtured, as the late rapper Tupac Shakur put it, like a rose growing through the concrete. More
'I was 9 when I first started selling drugs', Ramon Jackson, tells his life story of growing up poor in Detroit, crime and a shot at redemption. More
