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April 6, 2021
Election legislation that’s been unveiled by legislative Republicans in Michigan will be the focus of a press conference in Lansing with Benton Harbor Mayor Marcus Muhammad and other leaders from around the state. Muhammad said during a Monday city commission meeting the “so-called reforms” would increase ID requirements for voting and limit absentee voting options. He said the legislation would have a disproportionate effect on people in urban areas.
“It’s really, really the wicked face of Jim Crow,” Muhammad said. “The type of decisions behind the mind of Plessy versus Ferguson, Dred Scott versus Sanford, with a plan to basically suppress and take the state of Michigan back into the days of reconstruction.”
After the identity of the suspect who rammed his car into a security barrier at the United States Capitol building, killing one Capitol Police officer, was identified as a man who appears to have been a follower of Minister Louis Farrakhan, some leaders have challenged attempts to tie the deadly attack to the longtime head of the Nation of Islam.
On Friday, a suspect identified as 25-year-old Noah Green of Virginia Beach was fatally shot by Capitol Police on April 2 after he emerged from the crashed vehicle with a knife.
Noah Green has been identified as the suspect in the Capitol attack. (Photos: Christopher Newport University, Noah Green/ Facebook)
February 23, 2021
Benton Harbor Mayor Marcus Muhammad delivered his annual State of the City address Tuesday night, saying communities across the nation were greatly affected by the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, and yet Benton Harbor continued to rise. Muhammad noted much progress has been made in the city when it comes to fixing streets, and that’s largely thanks to the city income tax.
“If you ride down Union, if you ride down Broadway, if you ride down one of the worst streets that we had in the city of Benton Harbor, which was Emory, it is fixed today,” Muhammad said.
Muhammad credited everyone who pays taxes in the city for fixing the streets. In a year that saw police violence and unrest dominate the national conversation, Muhammad noted the Benton Harbor Department of Public Safety has a program to hire local.
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