June 10th, 20172DEARBORN — President Trump's proposed fiscal year 2018 budget cuts dealt a huge blow to mental health and substance abuse prevention, with funding to face projected cuts by almost $400 million.
Michigan is no stranger to debilitating cuts to areas such as education or health care, with cuts to these programs a routine practice of...
LANSING — The number of refugees re-settled in Michigan has dropped sharply over the past six months, mirroring a national trend, according to new analysis of U.S. State Department data from the Pew Research Center.
Last October Michigan re-settled 563 refugees. As of April, that number has fallen to 168. Nationally, 9,945 refugees...
May 19th, 20170SAN FRANCISCO — Immigrant rights advocates say that despite the cloud of fear hanging over communities in the first 100 days of the Trump administration, there is also a growing and increasingly organized resistance.
"We are seeing an increase in the number of people apprehended for removal," Melissa Chua, immigration director of...
May 19th, 20170May 15 marked the 69th year of systematic expulsion and pillaging of Palestinian communities, in addition to the centennial of the Balfour declaration that began the travesty.
In May of 1948 alone, after the Israeli militiamen of the Haganah, Irgun and Palmach liquidated entire villages via massacres, forcing the spared from their...
March 20th, 20170DETROIT — It was a full house on a March afternoon at Freedom House Detroit.
Through the window, you can see the historic St. Anne's Catholic Church; beyond, the Ambassador Bridge connecting Detroit to Canada seems within reach – a prime location for the Customs and Border patrol vehicles that comb the neighborhood.
In the...
March 17th, 20170Trump's doctrine propels the U.S. into a perpetual war waged against the very fabric of a diverse America.
If Donald Trump should learn one thing, it's that sequels to bad movies are usually, if not always, equally as abysmal.
The blocking of the president's latest executive order by two federal judges— Derrick K. Watson of Hawaii...
