10/18/18: Vernor Businesses / Public Charge Rule / Ozzie Rivera
Oct 18, 2018
Tonight on One Detroit:
Christy, Stephen and Nolan are on location at the Arab American National Museum in Dearborn.
Vernor Businesses: In this report, Nolan goes on a walking tour of the many thriving ethnic small businesses along Vernor Highway in Dearborn for a look at how many Arab American immigrants are going after the American Dream.
Public Charge Rule: A proposed change to the “public charge” rule in the Department of Homeland Security has immigration advocates concerned about its impact on legal immigrants and their families. Christy gets the perspective of an advocacy and community engagement expert from ACCESS, a non-profit created to assist the Arab immigrant population.
Ozzie Rivera: In this One Detroit report, we meet Ozzie Rivera, a well-known historian, educator and activist in Southwest Detroit. Ozzie is also a musician who has reconnected with his salsa jazz band to play music with strong ties to this diverse community.
Vice President Kamala Harris has already garnered support from several prominent Democrats in Detroit after Joe Biden dropped out of the presidential race.
Mikel Bresee, creator of the Community Arts Partnership program at the College for Creative Studies, reflects on two decades of community development through the arts. Bresee retired on June 28.
BridgeDetroit is launching its 2024 'Community Conversation' series June 18 with a talk on voter education and access. Our free monthly events will continue through September.
Communities in the U.S. West and Canada were under siege from raging wildfires on Friday, and a pilot was found dead in a crashed tanker plane that disappeared in eastern Oregon while fighting one of the many fires spreading across several Western states.
Just hours before the Olympic opening ceremony, saboteurs launched a coordinated arson attack on French train lines. It stranded nearly a million travelers and sparked even more concerns about potential threats to the games which are being protected by unprecedented security. Nick Schifrin discussed more with Javed Ali.
In our news wrap Friday, Donald Trump hosted Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu at his Mar-a-Lago residence, Canada, Australia and New Zealand called on Israel to end the war in Gaza immediately, health officials recalled some Boar's Head brand liverwurst and other deli products amid a probe into a listeria outbreak and a Canadian soccer coach was suspended amid a spying scandal involving drones.