May 10th, 20190DETROIT — On Sunday, May 5, the 55th annual Cinco de Mayo Parade kicked off at noon in the southwest of Detroit, beginning at West Vernor and Central Avenue for a celebration of Mexican culture.
Hosted by the Mexican Patriotic Committee of Metro Detroit, a crowd of thousands of people stood on the sidewalks along Vernor and watched...
April 29th, 20190DEARBORN - To commemorate Earth Day, the global holiday to celebrate life, more than two dozen institutions and organizations in the Metro area hosted an activity or event in honor of the holiday. Educational institutions hosted celebratory activities that included collecting roadside trash and wearing T-shirts, sweaters or jerseys...
April 23rd, 20190DETROIT — The Detroit-based towing company Breakthrough Towing LLC has gained considerable media attention in the last year following numerous reports of predatory practices and customer harassment.
Alongside stories in major local news outlets about these practices, the Michigan State Police has sent a cease and desist letter to...
April 5th, 20191DETROIT — Officials and community leaders gathered on Monday, April 1, to kickoff the Detroit 2020 Census effort. In a packed room at Focus: Hope in Detroit, Mayor Mike Duggan shared the podium with U.S. Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Detroit), Sen. Gary Peters (D-MI) and members from Detroit’s various nonprofit and activist organizations...
March 9th, 20190DETROIT— Mayor Mike Duggan proposed an infusion of $10 million for public safety and boosting the ranks of police officers in Detroit in an attempt to recast its reputation as one of the nation's most violent cities.
Duggan delivered his sixth State of the City address Tuesday and stated that he plans to add 70 officers to Detroit's...
March 1st, 20190DETROIT – The Wayne County Airport Authority, which operates Detroit Metropolitan Airport, will host a job fair for its concessionaires from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Saturday, March 2 at the airport’s Michael Berry Administration Building.
According to a Feb. 27 press release, management teams from several concessionaires will be on...
February 22nd, 20190YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio — Authorities said a man has been arrested at a residence in Ohio for threatening a mass shooting in Michigan.
The U.S. Marshals Service said 28-year-old Cameron White, of Detroit, was arrested Wednesday without incident by deputy marshals in Youngstown.
White is charged in Michigan with making a terrorist...
February 22nd, 20190Housing affordability is a top consideration when determining where to live. In 2018, the economy was strong and real estate prices went up. In 2019, many are predicting a downturn in the housing market.
The team at HomeArea.com created the cities in Michigan with the most affordable homes using the most recent Census Bureau data of...
February 8th, 20190DEARBORN — U.S. Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Detroit), sat down with The Arab American News on Saturday, Feb. 2 to discuss her first month in office and her explicit remarks in November about impeaching President Trump.
She said she faced criticisms, received hate mail and a death threat before making the remarks and during her...
February 8th, 20190DETROIT – Passenger traffic at Detroit Metropolitan Airport (DTW) grew to 35,236,676 in 2018.
Compared to 2017 it's an increase of more than 535,000 travelers, according to data by the airport’s Department of Financial Planning & Analysis.
The 2018 total is the highest number of passengers at DTW since 2007. A Feb....
February 1st, 20190DEARBORN HEIGHTS — On January 27, the Islamic Institute of America (IIA) hosted an interfaith dialogue about “the voice of human justice” as part of a tribute to the work of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and his dream of unity and equality.
The event, which drew a capacity crowd, had the theme of “One Nation Under God.”...
January 25th, 20190DETROIT — Mayor Mike Duggan announced Tuesday that in 2018 residential property values increased in more than 90 percent of Detroit’s 194 neighborhoods. He said it's a sign that revitalization efforts are impacting more areas of the city.
"I always thought that we would see double-digit increases,” Duggan said Tuesday during...
December 14th, 20180Fox 2 Detroit announced Thursday morning that meteorologist Jessica Starr took her own life Wednesday night.
"All of us here at FOX 2 are in deep shock and cannot believe that such a wonderful, bright and intelligent individual will no longer be with us,” the station announced on air. Her family and friends will be in our thoughts...
December 14th, 20180DETROIT — On Friday, Dec. 7, Lebanese singer Yasmine Hamdan performed a concert at the Detroit Institute of Arts’ Rivera Court, during her first visit to the city.
On the previous day, she visited the Arab American National Museum in Dearborn for a viewing of Jim Jarmusch’s film, “Only Lovers Left Alive”, in which she...
December 7th, 20180DETROIT— Recreational marijuana became legal at midnight Thursday in Michigan, making it the first state in the Midwest to end the substance's prohibition.
Ten years after voters approved medical marijuana, Michigan is the 10th state to legalize recreational cannabis use, ending its criminalization and creating the potential for...
November 24th, 20180DETROIT — Wayne County Prosecutor Kym Worthy, the first African American woman in Michigan to serve as a county prosecutor, internationally recognized for her work and a contributor to the award-winning HBO documentary “I Am Evidence”, was inducted into the Michigan Women’s Hall of Fame on Oct. 18.
Worthy told The AANews that...
November 10th, 20180DEARBORN— A partnership of business owners are set to begin designing a new Detroit city park on the corner of Warren and Grand River Avenues.
Prince Concepts, a real estate development company and sponsor of the project, has selected Julie Bargmann, the founder of D.I.R.T. Studio, a landscape design practice, to design the quarter...
November 5th, 20180CLINTON TOWNSHIP, Macomb County – There's an unassuming place where the Lebanese identity is alive and well, but it's not in the land of cedars nor in Dearborn, the capital of Arab America.
Macomb County, Michigan’s third most populated, located just northwest of Detroit, is home to the largest Lebanese Maronite Christian...
October 19th, 20181HAMTRAMCK ― An organization promoting cultural visibility in Hamtramck is sponsoring another mural highlighting the vast diversity of the city's neighborhoods.
A mural dedicated to the Bangladeshi community of Hamtramck appeared this week, painted by the Boston-based Mexican American artist Victor Quinonez, also known as...
October 2nd, 20180DETROIT — During a pro-labor rally in Detroit Tuesday afternoon, Rashida Tlaib, the expected replacement for former U.S. Rep. John Conyers and Abdul El-Sayed, former Democratic candidate for governor, were arrested on Tuesday, October 2, with 16 other protesters.
The protest, part of a national walkout of fast-food workers organized...
September 7th, 20180DEARBORN — The Dearborn Police Department responded to an armed carjacking on Warren Avenue on the morning on Sept. 2. One of the victims reported that while he and his brother were seated in their vehicle an unknown male approached and ordered them out of their car at gunpoint. The victims exited the vehicle and the suspect took...
August 26th, 20180DEARBORN – For as long as they've existed, libraries have provided information and services to their patrons. In the past, those services have centered primarily around providing books and other written materials, but today's libraries help visitors navigate a wide variety of information, both physical and digital.
Julie Schaefer,...
August 20th, 20180DETROIT — A Detroit police officer died Wednesday after being struck by a hit-and-run driver on Saturday Aug. 4 on the west side of the city.
At a news conference at the Detroit Public Safety Headquarters, Police Chief James Craig said that officer Fadi Shukur would “always be remembered for his magnetic smile.”
Mayor Mike...
August 18th, 20180DETROIT — The Detroit branch of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency (ICE) has detained a Brighton-area father and business owner for the last two weeks.
Fanta Doumbia told The AANews that her father, Banny Doumbia, originally from Ivory Coast, West Africa, was detained at his regular check-in at ICE on Friday, Aug....
August 17th, 20180DEARBORN — Ford Motor Company disclosed Tuesday it will spend $740 million on a project to revamp Michigan Central Station, Detroit’s historic but dilapidated former rail station, as well as other neighborhood sites.
Ford aims to turn the building into a campus of offices for up to 5,000 tech workers and software engineers focused...
August 12th, 20180DETROIT — Tuesday’s election brought to light a previously unknown political candidate with a questionable past, who unseated a usually popular state lawmaker.
Betty Jean Alexander, a 53-year-old Detroiter, won the race with 54.5 percent of the vote after signing a waiver saying she wouldn’t spend more than $1,000 on her...
August 11th, 20180DETROIT — Over the weekend, just days before Michigan’s primary election, U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT), campaigned for Dr. Abdul El-Sayed, the progressive Democratic gubernatorial candidate. Sanders and El-Sayed attracted more than 1,400 people at a rally held at Cobo Center in downtown Detroit Sunday afternoon.
El-Sayed...
August 4th, 20180DETROIT — While it may seemed too good to be true, the industrial population of Detroit grew very dramatically over the course of a century. However, starting in the 1950s, population in the city that had been a magnet to both European immigrants and Southern migrants experienced a rapid decline— holding it back.
Schools that...
