November 25th, 20220The U.S. marked the Thanksgiving holiday on Thursday with traditional feasts, parades and American football, taking a moment to celebrate in a week shadowed by gun violence.
The official holiday dates to the Civil War, when President Lincoln proclaimed the last Thursday of November as a day to give thanks and seek healing. U.S....
October 28th, 20222- Muzammil Ahmed serves on the boards of Emgage MI, CAIR MI and is the former chair of the Michigan Muslim Community Council. The opinions expressed are his own.
When the Muslim community and the progressive forces came together after 9/11, it was a marriage of convenience. Arabs and Muslims needed to be loved and the Progressives...
October 14th, 20223DEARBORN — A Dearborn Public Schools Board of Education meeting commenced on Thursday after being shut down on Monday when protesters against certain books in the district’s libraries packed the room and the meeting descended into chaos and confusion.
The books, which have been pulled off the shelf pending review for weeks,...
October 13th, 20220DEARBORN – American Federation of Teachers local unions who are active in the Dearborn community released the following statement prior to the Dearborn Board of Education meeting on Thursday, October 13, at Stout Middle School.
Dearborn educators are committed to providing a quality education to every single student and ensuring our...
September 24th, 20220DEARBORN — Dearborn Public Schools temporarily restricted access to seven books in their libraries after a parent had brought complaints about their content and said the texts contain obscenity.
Four of these are physical, three electronic (through the SORA e-book app curated by OverDrive to give students access to e-books in the...
June 7th, 20220DEARBORN — On Monday, Diabolique Paris Johnson, 35, of Indianapolis, pleaded guilty to charges of second degree murder, felony firearm and armed robbery for a string of crimes he committed in Dearborn and Detroit in 2020.
Due to the nature of the crimes and the victims involved, state and Wayne County officials alleged the man had...
June 10th, 20200LANSING — June has been declared Pride Month in Michigan. On Wednesday, Governor Whitmer announced the proclamation, which recognizes the estimated 350,000 Michiganders who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ+).
The proclamation notes that Michigan’s LGBTQ+ population are an important part of the...
May 12th, 20170DEARBORN — A lack of language for gay identity in religious doctrine reflected the stigmatization and eventual pathologization of it in Western discourse, where homosexuality was recognized as a mental illness from the 19th century until its removal from the DSM in 1973.
Ironically, Arabic and Islamic-era words articulating...
