Crossing the Lines: Supreme Café brings halal organic gourmet food options to Detroit’s Bagley neighborhood
This story is part of WDET’s Crossing the Lines: Live6 series, exploring the neighborhoods around the intersection of Six Mile...
Nargis Hakim Rahman is the Civic Reporter at 101.9 WDET. She works with the Documenters program to increase civic engagement. Rahman graduated from Wayne State University, where she was a part of the Journalism Institute of Media Diversity. Rahman started as an intern at WDET in 2010. She participated in the Feet in Two Worlds food journalism fellowship with WDET's Detroit Storymakers project in 2018.
Rahman is a Bangladeshi American who was raised in Metro Detroit. She is passionate about community journalism in the Greater Detroit area. She hopes to give American Muslims and minorities a voice in the press.
Detroit Evening Report: Housing canvassers to visit 60K Detroit homes to raise foreclosure prevention awareness
Canvassers in Detroit will knock on 60,000 doors to raise awareness about tax foreclosure prevention options in the city. Subscribe...
Detroit Evening Report: Demolition of Detroit incinerator scheduled for June 11
Detroit officials say they'll use explosives to demolish the shuttered incinerator smoke stack later this month. Subscribe to the Detroit...
American physician documents Syrian refugee crisis in new book
Nour Akhras is a Syrian American pediatric infectious disease physician and author of “Just One: A Journey of Perseverance and...
Detroit Evening Report: Community fridge provides access to free food on Detroit’s westside
A community refrigerator with free food was placed outside a church on Detroit’s westside over the weekend. Subscribe to the...
Detroit Evening Report: City of Detroit accepting applications for Arts Alley Fellowship program
The City of Detroit’s Office of Arts, Culture and Entrepreneurship has launched a new Arts Alley Fellowship program, where fellows...
Garden City dentist leads focus elevating women Arab American business owners
Dr. Asmaa Abdel-Salam is a general dentist at Precision Family Dental in Garden City and leads the Arab American Women's...
Detroit Evening Report: Detroit City Council approves Juneteenth as paid holiday for city workers
Detroit will recognize Juneteenth as a paid holiday for city workers. Listen and Subscribe to the Detroit Evening Report NPR...
DER Weekends: Muslim women of business
In the latest installment of DER Weekends, Nargis Rahman tells the story of Muslim businesswomen in Southeast Michigan coming...
UM Dearborn exhibit brings people together to discuss criminal justice reform
An art and poetry exhibit that hopes to inspire conversations about criminal justice reform in the U.S. opens this weekend...
Detroit Evening Report: Construction starts on Detroit transit center at former Michigan State Fairgrounds site
Construction has begun on a new transit center at the site of the former Michigan State Fairgrounds. Listen and Subscribe...
‘In Search of Bengali Harlem’ explores the life of Bengali men who jumped ship in the early 1900s
‘In Search of Bengali Harlem’ is a documentary film about comedian Alaudin Ullah who went on a journey to learn...