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Illinois is making history as the first state to collect Middle Eastern and North African representation data on all state forms and surveys. With the passage of House Bill 3768 Illinois will count Arab Americans and other minorities from the Middle East and North Africa. Rep. .
Michigan has passed legislation to confirm wearing natural hair should not prevent anyone from rising in the workplace, in education or in society in general. Renee McCauley, a great-grand niece of civil-rights icon Rosa Parks, said the CROWN Act finally allows Michigan as a state to embrace her family and heritage fully. She described how her great grand aunt relocated from Alabama to Detroit because of racism and was welcomed by the city to live and be herself. .
The Michigan Senate has passed legislation to confirm wearing natural hair should not prevent anyone from rising in the workplace, in education or in society in general. Renee McCauley, a great-grand niece of civil-rights icon Rosa Parks, said the CROWN Act finally allows Michigan as a state to embrace her family and heritage fully. She described how her great grand aunt relocated from Alabama to Detroit because of racism and was welcomed by the city to live and be herself. .
Japanese Americans gather this weekend for memorial events at the World War II Topaz internment camp in Delta, and in Salt Lake City, to mark the 80th anniversary of a murder. In 1943, James Wakasa was walking his dog inside the internment camp when an Army guard shot and killed him, alleging Wakasa was trying to escape. Ann Tamaki Dion, a third generation Japanese American, a Topaz camp descendant and president of the group Friends of Topaz, a group which actively supports the Topaz Museum in Delta, said several of her family members lived or were born at the internment camp. .