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COMMUNITY

Nawal Hamadeh talks about her charter schools and the 2019 graduation incident

June 30th, 20190 DEARBORN - In a conversation with The Arab American News, Nawal Hamadeh, founder and director of the Hamadeh Educational Services, discussed the incident that took place at the Universal Academy graduation ceremony, which turned into a public issue after the release of a video sparked a widespread debate. The video featured two...

Art & Culture

Ramadan Suhoor Festival promotes unity and diversity among Muslims

June 10th, 20190 DEARBORN HEIGHTS — Community members and many attendees from other towns celebrated the farewell weekend of the Ramadan Suhoor Festival, making its second appearance at the Hype Center on West Warren Avenue. Starting out as a pop-up festival, the Ramadan Suhoor Festival morphed into four weekends of food, celebration and unity...

Crime

Bangladeshi American cab driver from Hamtramck killed on the job in Detroit

May 31st, 20190 DETROIT — A Bangladeshi American father of seven was shot and killed while driving his cab Saturday morning. Hamtramck resident Joynul Islam, 60, was a cab driver for Checker Cab. The incident occurred as he was dropping a passenger off on the 600 block of Collingwood Street, near Woodward, around 2 a.m. Saturday. According to...

Local

Billions needed to fix roads and bridges in Wayne County

May 31st, 20190 DETROIT— Within the next 10 years, Wayne County needs to invest more than $3 billion for 90 percent of the infrastructure to be brought to better conditions. Wayne County public roads and bridges comprise the largest and oldest local public infrastructure system in the state of Michigan, impacting one of the most significant...

Local

Detroit Cinco de Mayo Parade celebrates Mexican culture

May 10th, 20190 DETROIT — 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...

COMMUNITY

How do residents in the Metro area celebrate Earth Day?

April 29th, 20190 DEARBORN - 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...

COMMUNITY

Breakthrough Towing accused of bad practices, customer harassment

April 23rd, 20190 DETROIT — 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...

COMMUNITY

Michigan officials and community leaders promote Census at rally, echo concerns over discrimination and under-representation

April 5th, 20191 DETROIT — 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...

Local

Mayor Duggan announces public safety measures in State of the City address

March 9th, 20190 DETROIT— 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...

Business

Detroit Metropolitan Airport holds job fair this Saturday

March 1st, 20190 DETROIT – 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...

Crime

Police arrest Detroit man accused of making terror threats

February 22nd, 20190 YOUNGSTOWN, 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...

Local

Cities in Michigan with the most affordable housing

February 22nd, 20190 Housing 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...

COMMUNITY

U.S. Rep. Rashida Tlaib speaks about explicit remarks, impeaching Trump and first month in office

February 8th, 20190 DEARBORN — 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...

Local

Detroit Metropolitan Airport ends 2018 with increase of half a million passengers

February 8th, 20190 DETROIT – 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....

COMMUNITY

Interfaith leaders urge people to ‘stand up’ for justice amid rising discrimination

February 1st, 20190 DEARBORN 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.”...

Local

Residential properties in Detroit see values increase

January 25th, 20190 DETROIT — 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...

COMMUNITY

FOX 2 meteorologist Jessica Starr passes away

December 14th, 20180 Fox 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...

Art & Culture

Lebanese singer Yasmine Hamdan makes first visit to Detroit

December 14th, 20180 DETROIT — 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...

Local

Recreational marijuana legalized in Michigan on Thursday

December 7th, 20180 DETROIT— 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...

COMMUNITY

For Wayne County Prosecutor Kym Worthy every case should be treated with the same gravity

November 24th, 20180 DETROIT — 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...

COMMUNITY

Dearborn business owner encourages residents to visit future Detroit park

November 10th, 20180 DEARBORN— 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...

COMMUNITY

Metro Detroit’s Lebanese Christians celebrate opening of Macomb County’s largest Maronite church

November 5th, 20180 CLINTON 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...

COMMUNITY

OneHamtramck develops mural featuring Bangladeshi culture

October 19th, 20181 HAMTRAMCK ― 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...

COMMUNITY

Rashida Tlaib, Abdul El-Sayed arrested at Fight for $15 rally in Detroit

October 2nd, 20180 DETROIT — 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...

COMMUNITY

Dearborn police arrest carjacking suspect

September 7th, 20180 DEARBORN — 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...

Local

How libraries remain relevant in the digital age

August 26th, 20180 DEARBORN – 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,...

COMMUNITY

Arab American police officer killed in hit-and-run in Detroit

August 20th, 20180 DETROIT — 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...

COMMUNITY

ICE detains Brighton father and business owner

August 18th, 20180 DETROIT — 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....

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