Groups rally against proposed election bills in Michigan
State GOP lawmakers proposing 39-bill package
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LANSING, Mich. – On the first day of Michigan Legislature’s return to session Tuesday, the steps of the state Capitol were flooded with people saying to stand up for voting rights.
Detroit chapter NAACP President, the Rev. Wendell Anthony, claims the 39 bills geared toward the state’s elections are a way to suppress the Black vote in areas where African-American turnout is high.
“We are not gonna stand by and allow these Republican Legislatures to take our vote,” Anthony said. “These 39 bills that are being introduced by this Legislature is based not on voter fraud or the mishandling of the election.”
Detroit NAACP says Michigan Senate GOP voting bills ‘place democracy on a ventilator’
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Dr. Wendell Anthony, president of the Detroit branch of the NAACP, speaks alongside Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan to protest Republican proposals to change state election law. Photo by Sam Dodge | MLive.com.Sam Dodge | MLive.com
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LANSING, MI - Civil rights activist Marian Wright Edelman once said that democracy “cannot breathe” and will die “if those enjoined to protect it and uphold the laws snuff it out – with no consequences.”
On Tuesday at the Michigan State Capitol, today’s wave of Black activists from Detroit updated that message for modern times.
Virus Surge in Michigan Is a ‘Gut Punch’ to Hopes of Pandemic’s End
The U.S. has entered a disconcerting phase: Vaccines are rolling out quickly, but upticks in cases raise the prospect of a new surge.
Covid-19 vaccinations at Greater Emmanuel Institutional church in Detroit on Saturday. In Michigan’s largest city, local leaders are racing to vaccinate residents amid a rise in cases.Credit.Cydni Elledge for The New York Times
April 1, 2021, 5:00 a.m. ET
DETROIT In a rural stretch of Michigan along the shore of Lake Huron, coronavirus outbreaks are ripping through churches, schools and restaurants where the virus has infected line cooks and waitresses. For more than a week, ambulances have taken several hourlong trips each day to rush severely ill coronavirus patients to hospitals in Detroit, Saginaw or Port Huron, where beds in intensive-care units await.
DETROIT In a rural stretch of Michigan along the shore of Lake Huron, coronavirus outbreaks are ripping through churches, schools and restaurants where the virus has infected line cooks and waitresses. For more than a week, ambulances have taken several hourlong trips each day to rush severely ill coronavirus patients to hospitals in Detroit, Saginaw or Port Huron, where beds in intensive-care units await. Even as the pandemic appears to be.