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Open carry and intimidation put community, police on edge
February 27th, 20170 DEARBORN — On Sunday, February 19, a group of five armed individuals were spotted marching along Warren Avenue on Dearborn's east side. The open carry advocates walked down Schaefer towards Warren during peak business hours that morning. A video taken by a Dearborn resident who witnessed the protest accrued thousands of likes on...
ADC-MI in transition, new director to be named
February 27th, 20170 DEARBORN — The American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC) was established in 1980 by former Senator James George Abourezk (D-SD) in response to the growing tide of anti-Arab rhetoric in the United States. Since then, those tides have increased, with the impact felt strongest in Dearborn, home to the U.S.'s most concentrated...
Former Dearborn city clerk charged with seven counts of felonies, embezzlement, larceny and misconduct in office
February 11th, 20170 DEARBORN — Former City Clerk Kathleen Buda has been charged with seven counts of felonies including embezzlement, larceny in a building and misconduct while in office, according to information obtained by The AANews. Buda will be arraigned tomorrow at 1 PM before Judge Mark Somers in the 19th District Court on the above...
Trump’s actions have roots in American political discourse
February 11th, 20170 Donald Trump’s executive orders were no doubt an overt assault on the character and integrity of not only the Arab and Muslim community, but also of the rich framework of immigrants of diverse backgrounds and nationalities that construct the backbone of this nation. His measures against Arabs and Muslims, however, did not occur in...
Courts schooled Trump about America’s greatness
February 11th, 20170 It has been a mere three weeks since real estate mogul Donald Trump took the oath of office as the U.S. president, and the country has already suffered the detrimental effects of poorly-implemented policy. On Friday, Jan. 27, our president exposed seemingly shrouded, but wide-spread insensible and xenophobic sentiments among the powerful...
Trump not to challenge travel ban in Supreme Court
February 11th, 20170 DONALD TRUMP was confident his lawyers would win the argument reinforcing his travel ban before the country’s highest court. But, following three legal losses Thursday and careful against facing yet another setback regarding his executive order banning travel to the US for people from seven Muslim-majority countries, the White House...
State audit finds no fraud in Detroit vote
February 10th, 20170 DETROIT— On Thursday, Feb. 9, the state released a review indicating that “an abundance of human error” caused discrepancies between the number of ballots cast and the number of voters recorded in Detroit. There was no fraud. In a separate audit, the state found at least 31 people voted twice in the fall presidential election...
Arab American to run for governor
February 10th, 20170 DETROIT— Public Health Director Abdul El-Sayed, a Democrat, told local media outlets that he plans to resign and run for governor in the 2018 election. "Right now, I'm focused on taking care of our health department to make sure that I leave it better than how I found it and to make sure the transition is smooth," he...
US Federal Court poised to rule over Trump’s travel ban
February 10th, 20170 A Feb. 7 hearing about whether to overrule a federal judge in Seattle’s restraining order was heard within a Federal appellate court in San Francisco Tuesday. The case presented pertains to Washington state and Minnesota having filed suit against the Trump administration over the President’s executive order issued Jan. 27 instantly...
NSA contractor arrested, indicted for stealing documents
February 10th, 20170 On Wednesday, a former NSA contractor was indicted by a grand federal jury on charges he willfully retained national defense information. US government officials claim the incident could be possibly the largest government seizure of stolen information in history. Facing 20 criminal counts each amounting to 10 years maximum in...
Texas state advocates anti-sanctuary bill
February 10th, 20170 Senate bill 4, a legislation that would punish local and state government and college entities that refuse to comply with federal immigration officials laws or requests. The bill, pushed by Texas state Sen. Charles Perry received its approval from the Republican controlled Texas Senate on Wednesday. The vote projected a 20-10...
New Senate bill would designate, punish organizations deemed to be affiliated with Muslim Brotherhood
February 10th, 20170 The Muslim Brotherhood Terrorist Designation Act, now pending in Congress, is a new piece of legislation following in step with Trump’s travel ban. Introduced in January by Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX), the act is intended to “protect against the violent jihad carried out by the Muslim Brotherhood affiliates both in the United States and in...
Arab American lawmakers push back against discriminatory Michigan bills
February 10th, 20170 Julia Kassem The Arab American News LANSING— In response to the growing tide of anti-immigrant, anti-Muslim legislation put forth by Donald Trump’s executive orders, Michigan legislators have pushed forth— as well as against— legislation pertaining to Trump’s immigration ban and assault on sanctuary cities. Arab...
Confronting the culture of conspiracy
February 10th, 20171 By Julia Kassem The Arab American News DEARBORN— While the United States faces a battle with fake news that reflects the misinformed vitriol definitive of the political climate, the Arab world has faced its share of ongoing problems of politicized and polemical misinformation. The irony is that such false information,...
U.S. appeals court upholds suspension of Trump travel ban
February 9th, 20170 SAN FRANCISCO ― A federal appeals court on Thursday unanimously upheld a temporary suspension of President Donald Trump's order that restricted travel from seven Muslim-majority countries. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruling came in a challenge to Trump's order filed by the states of Washington and Minnesota. The U.S.......
ACCESS hosts emergency town hall to fight Trump’s Muslim ban
February 3rd, 20171 DEARBORN—On Wednesday, ACCESS’s Take on Hate campaign organized an emergency town hall in response to President Trump’s executive order on immigration. The event, originally scheduled for the Arab American National Museum, had to be moved to the Ford Community and Performing Arts Center to accommodate the unexpectedly large...
Pushing for sanctuary cities amidst institutional racism
February 2nd, 20170 By Julia Kassem The Arab American News Detroit is poised in a peculiar position. In 2014, it became a “welcoming city”, joining 40 other cities across the country, such as Boston, Los Angeles and Boise, in adopting the voluntary designation. 2014 was also the year Flint began to face the contamination of its water supply......
Does protesting work?
February 2nd, 20170 Does protest work? By Julia Kassem The Arab American News Street protests are all the rage these days. They're also displays of a lot of rage. Demonstrations, marches and the like never had a chance to become passe in systems of power unmitigated by oppression and wealth disparity. Protest entered the Western discourse...
Attack on Quebec City mosque leaves five dead
January 29th, 20170 Earlier, a witness told Reuters that up to three gunmen fired on about 40 people inside the Quebec City Islamic Cultural Center. Police put up a security perimeter around the mosque. Quebec police confirmed the shooting at a Quebec mosque in a tweet, and police on the scene said there had been fatalities. "There are many...
Highlights of Trump’s first week in office
January 29th, 20170 WASHINGTON D.C. - On Tuesday, Trump signed orders reviving the controversial Keystone XL and Dakota Access pipelines, rolling back Obama’s executive actions to halt further construction on the pipeline. Applauding Trump’s order was the North Dakota Petroleum Council’s president, Ron Ness, who said, “We think this is a...
Trump disregards boundaries, bullies neighbors during first week
January 29th, 20170 President Trump's inauguration— connoting hostility, invoking fear and uncompromising in its rhetoric— paled in comparison to President Obama's in size, strength and substance. Yet, it paved the way for Trump to carry out more austere executive actions in six days than Obama had in passing reasonable and —at times – relatively......
LAHC declines CVE grant
January 29th, 20171 DEARBORN- After the Department of Homeland Security awarded Dearborn’s Leaders Advancing and Helping Communities a Countering Violence Extremism (CVE) grant, the group ended up declining it Thursday night, according to a press release. The community group sought funding for existing programs, focused on youth development,...
Arab American joins WXYZ-TV as anchor/reporter
January 29th, 20171 SOUTHFIELD – Born and raised in Detroit, Ameera David has returned to her hometown to work at WXYZ/WMYD as a 7 Action News anchor/reporter after hosting “Boom Bust,” RT America’s flagship financial news program, headquartered in Washington D.C. The show airs daily and is broadcast to 700 million homes in over 100......
Henry Ford Museum officially changes name
January 29th, 20170 DEARBORN - On Monday, the Dearborn tourist destination The Henry Ford announced that it will change the name of the Henry Ford Museum to Henry Ford Museum of American Innovation. “Henry Ford Museum has always been about ideas and innovations that changed the world,” Moordian said. “We believe adding the word innovation to...
Warren city officials call on Fouts to investigate himself
January 29th, 20170 WARREN — On Tuesday, Warren City Council called for its battered mayor to inspect the recordings that appeared in the past month of him or someone else disparaging disabled people, older women and African Americans. The plan passed 4-3 and asks the mayor to use state and local agencies to help him find the source and verify the......
