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Representative Noah Arbit (D-West Bloomfield) is a lead sponsor of legislation to add legal protections against antisemitism to Michigan’s Elliott-Larsen Civil Rights Act.
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Detroit Evening Report: Dems want to expand Michigan civil rights act to cover antisemitism

Rick Pluta, Sascha Raiyn June 4, 2025

A group of Democratic state lawmakers is calling for an expansion of Michigan’s civil rights law to specifically include protections...

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The cover of "Malcolm Lives!: The Official Biography of Malcolm X for Young Readers," by author Ibram X. Kendi (right).
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The Metro: Ibram X. Kendi’s new book introduces Malcolm X to a new generation

Tia Graham, Sam Corey, The Metro May 15, 2025

Ibram X. Kendi has a new children’s book out called “Malcolm Lives.” In the book, he’s introducing the life and...

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Former U.S. Attorney General for the Eastern District of Michigan Barbara McQuade at WDET Studios.
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The Metro: Former US Attorney Barb McQuade on Trump’s defiance of court orders

Sam Corey, Robyn Vincent, The Metro April 16, 2025

Subscribe to The Metro on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, NPR.org or wherever you get your podcasts. Last month, the U.S. government deported Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a native...

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Bridge to Canada sign
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Crossing the line: Know your rights coming back into the US

Russ McNamara April 11, 2025

President Donald Trump campaigned on mass deportations of undocumented immigrants. So far, he hasn't been successful. However, it's not for...

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Marsha Caspar and Glenna DeJong with Frizzy. They were the first same-sex couple married in Michigan on March 22, 2014, after a federal judge struck down the state’s same-sex marriage ban.
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Saturday marks 11 years since Michigan marriage equality decision

Rick Pluta March 21, 2025

Saturday is the 11-year wedding anniversary for more than 300 gay and lesbian couples who were married in Michigan following...

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U.S. Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, D-NY, U.S. Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif., Rev. Al Sharpton, Rev. Jesse Jackson and NAACP President Derick Johnson, from left, march across the Edmund Pettus bridge during the 60th anniversary of the march to ensure that African Americans could exercise their constitutional right to vote, Sunday, March 9, 2025, in Selma, Ala.
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‘Bloody Sunday’ 60th anniversary marked in Selma with remembrances and concerns about the future

Associated Press March 10, 2025

SELMA, Ala. (AP) — Charles Mauldin was near the front of a line of voting rights marchers walking in pairs...

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DetroitBusingSegregation
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The Metro: New book details the struggle to integrate Detroit schools

The Metro, Trevor McConico, Sam Corey January 29, 2025

Subscribe to The Metro on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, NPR.org or wherever you get your podcasts. Many school districts throughout metro Detroit, and Detroit in particular, are...

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Marcus Garvey, 1924.
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Detroit Evening Report: Biden pardons the late Black nationalist Marcus Garvey, others

Sascha Raiyn January 21, 2025

On his last day in office, President Joe Biden posthumously pardoned Black nationalist Marcus Garvey, who was convicted of mail fraud in the...

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"In the Groove" host Ryan Patrick Hooper in WDET's studios in Detroit.
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In The Groove: Songs of the Civil Rights movement, protest & resistance

Ryan Patrick Hooper January 21, 2025

This is a mini-but-mighty In The Groove, because we lost some of the show to special coverage of President Donald...

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An exterior view of the Algiers Motel and Manor (also known as the "Annex"), the location where three young Black men were killed and seven other people were badly beaten by law enforcement during a raid prompted by reports of armed gunmen near the location.
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The Metro: New historic marker remembers the Algiers Motel, Detroit Rebellion of 1967

Sydney Waelchli July 24, 2024

A new historic marker will be placed at the former location of the Algiers Motel, which was the site of...

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Lodi Township is located in Washtenaw County, just southwest of Ann Arbor.
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Civil rights group files federal lawsuit against Lodi Township on zoning for houses of worship

Nargis Rahman July 5, 2024

The nonprofit Council on American-Islamic Relations - Michigan chapter filed a federal lawsuit against Lodi Township on behalf of Masjid...

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African American Laborers on the U.S. Military Railroad in Northern Virginia
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Created Equal: How did the Civil War change the workplace for Black Americans?

Madison Ganzak June 10, 2024

Black Americans searching for employment during the Civil War is not something we often think about.Massachusetts was known as a...

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