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Arts, Culture & Media
‘Bad Kreyòl’ premieres in New York
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Abdullah Hammoud, mayor-elect of Dearborn, Michigan
Elections
Dearborn’s first Arab American mayor-elect: ‘You need not change who you are’ to run for public office
Trump supporters at right argue with a counterprotester at left as they protest election results outside the central counting board at the TCF Center in Detroit, Michigan, Nov. 5, 2020.
2020 US presidential election
International Crisis Group warns political violence could further polarize the US
A healthcare worker walks outside the DMC Sinai-Grace Hospital
COVID-19
Detroit needs Canadian nurses. But coronavirus threatens their cross-border travel.
Government officials, wearing protective masks, stand next to a plane
COVID-19
US deportation flights risk spreading coronavirus globally
Police officers in protective suits arrive in a residential area to check on people
COVID-19
Without support for India’s poorest people, lockdown risks failure
authorities
The US movement against female genital mutilation is at a crossroads
Ilhan Omar clasps her husband’s mother's face in her hands as she smiles
Women & Gender
These are the women who made history in this year’s midterm elections
Hamissi Mamba walks through the guts of what will be his new restaurant, Baobab Fare in Detroit. Originally from Burundi, Mamba relocated to Michigan two years back, learned English, and is now a budding entrepreneur.
50 States
Detroit welcomes immigrants to spur the city’s revival
At General Motors’ Detroit-Hamtramck factory, it takes about three days for Buicks, Chevrolets, and Cadillacs to complete the 16 mile conveyor belt, start to finish.
Business, Economics and Jobs
Trump’s NAFTA revisions — designed to help the US auto industry — could have the opposite impact
The West Virginia State Capitol building in Charleston sits on the Kanawha River, which is fed in part by the Elk River — the main water supply for nearly 300,000 of the state's residents.
Science
Documentary uncovers contaminated truths behind water crisis in West Virginia, other locations
Comic still of woman against yellow backdrop holding up a book and pen
Books
Author Saladin Ahmed has found mainstream success in the US — while being ‘unapologetically Arab and Muslim’
Recent released information about Russians hacking into American power systems has raised several concerns about the overall security of the U.S. energy grid as a whole.
Conflict
Can the US protect its power grid from hackers?
Arts, Culture & Media
Ladislav Hanka
Arts, Culture & Media
Rick DeVos
Arts, Culture & Media
Grand Rapids Idol
Rhonada Collier clears away tree branches in front of an abandoned house in an attempt to make her once thriving working-class neighborhood that is now littered with blight look better in Flint, Michigan.
Culture
Want to fight crime? Plant some flowers with your neighbor.
New artificial-intelligence-enabled algorithms have allowed video editors a whole new array of tools to make fake videos even more believable.
Culture
AI-based fake videos pose the latest threat to what we perceive as reality — and possibly our democracy
Bottles of water
Justice
A tiny Michigan town is in a water fight with Nestle
Supporters of southern Yemeni separatists take part in an anti-government protest in Aden, Yemen January 28, 2018
Conflict
South Yemen’s separatists speak through a Michigan mom
A woman wearing a headwrap and as shimmering blue and gold dress stands in front of a camera, with her hands to her hips.
Culture
Fashion, faith and culture come together through the global art of head wrapping
Amanda Saab came up with the idea for "Dinner With Your Muslim Neighbor."
Food
Could dinner parties bring hearts and minds together? This Muslim woman is giving it a try.
A group of women react as they talk about family members seized on Sunday by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents during a rally outside the Mother of God Catholic Chaldean church in Southfield, Michigan, U.S., June 12, 2017.
Global Politics
Iraqis are rounded up and deported from the US. What’s behind it all?
A man shows the logo of a T-shirt that reads "Stop the Cut"
Development
Female genital mutilation is illegal in the US. So why is it still happening?
Nestle
Economics
While Flint waits, Nestle pumps Michigan water on the cheap
Sign pointing to a water distribution site in Flint, MI.
Environment
It’s been almost three years since Flint’s water crisis began. What have we learned?
Protesters at airport, protesting outdoors in front of airplanes
Justice
Activists, on overdrive to respond to Trump’s immigration plans, are making new alliances in Detroit
People hugging in front of airport arrival and departure signs
Justice
Attorneys in Michigan’s Arab American communities have a short window to prepare for Trump’s immigration plan
Jessica Nabongo
Global Politics
What happened to everyone who was going to leave the US if Trump won?
American workers assemble a Ford Escape on the production line in Louisville, Kentucky.
Economics
Ford scraps its factory in Mexico. How much influence did Trump really have?
Photographer shoots family across green field
Culture
A small-town Mexican photographer brings big-time nostalgia with him to Detroit
Cameroonian musician Moken
Music
Cameroon’s ‘Golden Voice’ struck gold when he won a green card
Global Politics
Occupy Wall Street protests find a home on Main Street, America
University of Michigan
Education
Domino’s Pizza CEO delivers dose of advocacy for struggling public research universities
Shinola's watches on sale in its Ann Arbor, Michigan store. The company now has more than a dozen US locations and one overseas store in London.
Business
A Detroit watch company brings its message of the gritty underdog to Europe
Water faucet lead?
Environment
An investigation has found lead in 2,000 US water systems
A surfer showers off on the beach in Cardiff, California.
Lifestyle
I forgot the art of showering in cold water
Information about filters at a distribution center table
Environment
One reason undocumented immigrants didn’t learn about Flint’s lead poisoning sooner: There wasn’t much in Spanish
Studies show that communities of color are especially vulnerable to environmental injustice and environmental racism.
Environment
This professor says Flint’s water crisis amounts to environmental racism
Volunteers deliver water in Flint
Global Politics
From Lesbos to Flint — an Islamic relief group helps the poor get safe water
Flint water protest
Environment
The water crisis in Flint is ‘an entirely preventable man-made disaster’
flint water
Environment
The mom and the EPA ‘rogue employee’ who exposed Flint’s water crisis
Hybrid vehicles like the Chevrolet Volt were front and center at Boston's auto show.
Business
What auto companies might look like in a world with less gas … and fewer cars
Michigan National Guard helping with water distribution
Environment
Why the crisis over Flint’s water could really happen anywhere in the US
A model poses next to the Buick Excelle XT during the opening day of the Shanghai Auto Show April 19, 2011.
Economics
Chinese drivers love Buicks, and that’s why GM is concerned about their economy
The Indian version of American chopsuey
Food
I yearned for an Indian version of an American version of a Chinese dish
Residents of Erbil buy groceries in a local market.
Lifestyle
Just 60 miles from ISIS, youth bowl, swim, see George Clooney in ‘Tomorrowland’
Aided by reintroduction programs and changing public attitudes, wolves are making a comeback in the rural American West. On Isle Royale, however, they’re in a steep decline and unlikely to recover.
Environment
The world’s longest animal population study has bad news for wolves
Steve Gosskie, the 2013 Featherbowling chamption in the Cadieux Cafe. Gosskie holds the second portrait that Jerry Lemenu painted for him. The first was stolen and never returned.
Sports
Featherbowling is an almost unknown sport — but not at this Detroit café
The surviving members of ? and the Mysterians, the day their 1966 hit '96 Tears' was proclaimed the official rock and roll song of Bay City, Michigan.   (From left to right, Frank Rodriguez, Question Mark, Robert Martinez, Frank Lugo, and Robert Lee Balde
Music
Here’s how ’96 Tears’ became a Michigan city’s official rock anthem
Doctors David Ghozland and Marc Winter perform a single-site robotic-assisted hysterectomy.
Health & Medicine
Doctors are ready to test temporary ‘suspended animation’ to save people with severe injuries
Doctors David Ghozland and Marc Winter perform a single-site robotic-assisted hysterectomy.
Health & Medicine
Doctors are ready to test temporary ‘suspended animation’ to save people with severe injuries
Arts, Culture & Media
‘When in doubt, fry’: tasting the best sate foods from the upper midwest
Global Politics
Voters voices from around the country
Global Politics
Obama Administration announces big spending package on transportation
Tamar Charney's view from her window in Venezuela
Development & Education
I had to see poverty abroad before I could see it at home