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Our entire community will celebrate the State of Israel on Sunday May 7th , beginning at noon with its 12th annual Walk For Israel and 5K Family Fun Run. Thousands of Israel supporters will attend this community wide event with participants not only from the Jewish Community but the Chaldean Community, the Black Community and from numerous surrounding suburbs.
U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren took aim Sunday at the administration of President Donald Trump in “plain talk” before a huge crowd gathered for the largest annual fundraiser of the Detroit chapter of the NAACP. “I haven’t come to Detroit in a moment of triumph,” said Warren on Sunday.
After eight years with the first African American elected as president, people in the community have to come together to make sure progress isn't halted and the best cure for complacency in today’s electorate is President Donald Trump, said the Rev. Wendell Anthony, president of the NAACP’s Detroit chapter.
Rep. Brenda Lawrence, D-Mich. speaks during the March for Science on Saturday, April 22, 2017 at Hart Plaza in Detroit (Photo).
Thousands of science supporters converged upon Hart Plaza Saturday to participate in the first-ever global March for Science. They cheered on speakers and held protest signs including “Climate change is real, there is no planet B,” “Science is understood, not believed,” “Got the plague? Me neither.
U.S. Rep. Brenda Lawrence, who serves the state’s 14th U.S. House district, held a coffee hour from 3:30 to 5 p.m. on Wednesday, April 19 at Lafayette Market, 154 Saginaw St. in downtown Pontiac. The event was meant to give Pontiac residents a chance to discuss their concerns, local or otherwise, with Lawrence. Lawrence began with an update on some of the issues she’s working on in Washington.
U.S. Rep. Brenda Lawrence, who serves the state’s 14th U.S. House district, will hold a coffee hour from 3:30 to 5 p.m. on Wednesday, April 19 at Lafayette Market, 154 Saginaw St. in downtown Pontiac. The event is meant to give Pontiac residents a chance to discuss their concerns, local or otherwise, with Lawrence. Check back this afternoon for more information.
Democrats in the Michigan congressional delegation are urging the House Appropriations Committee to include funds in a government spending bill later this month to help the city of Flint recover from its drinking water crisis. Congress faces an April 28 deadline to avoid a government shutdown.
The chairmen and ranking members on both the House Foreign Affairs and Intelligence Committees on Monday joined with the leadership of the Armenian Caucus and more than eighty of their U.S. House colleagues in calling upon President Trump to properly commemorate the Armenian Genocide in his April 24th White House statement, reported the Armenian National Committee of America.
Congresswoman Brenda Lawrence, Michigan Representative for the 14th District, recently made a visit to Detroit Community Health Connection (DCHC) to learn first-hand from medical providers, staff, and patients the potential impact of a repeal or replacement of the Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare as it also known. The Congresswoman met with DCHC president/CEO Wayne W. Bradley, Sr.