On June 14, 2012, then-state Reps. Lisa Brown (D-West Bloomfield) and Barb Byrum (D-Onondaga) were censured for one day after they made impassioned speeches against a bill that sought to put …
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Vice President Kamala was in Detroit Monday, discussing voting rights and the COVID-19 vaccine. She arrived Monday morning, and participated in a voting rights listening session with Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson.
Later that afternoon, she spoke at a vaccine mobilization event at the TCF Center. Harris was preceded by several Michigan lawmakers, including U.S. Representatives Rashida Tlaib (D-Detroit) and Brenda Lawrence (D-Southfield), Lieutenant Governor Garlin Gilchrist III, and Governor Gretchen Whitmer.
Harris praised Detroiters resilience throughout the pandemic At the very start of the pandemic, companies in Detroit, from small batch manufacturers to Big 3 auto makers, converted their factories and produced protective gear and ventilators for our nation’s hospitals, she said. You did that not only for folks locally, but nationally. As COVID-19 cases rose, it was Detroit s frontline workers who worked around the clock to care for
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Thousands of people gathered at the Ford Community and Performing Arts Center in Dearborn Sunday afternoon to express their support for Palestinians in the Gaza Strip and East Jerusalem. People of all ages sang, danced, wore kufiya scarves, and waved Palestinian flags large and small.
The United Nations says Israeli airstrikes have killed more than 180 Palestinians in the past week, and Hamas missiles have killed at least ten people in Israel.
Tensions escalated rapidly after Israeli police raided the Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem and cut the cables to loudspeakers broadcasting prayers, as
The New York Timesreports. The tensions were exacerbated as Palestinian families waited to hear whether the Israeli Supreme Court would uphold evictions in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood in East Jerusalem in favor of Jewish settlers.