This Week on One Detroit:

Inaugural Michigan Ramadan Market Highlights Islamic Holiday in Metro Detroit

It was a normal weekend in March for many Westland residents this past weekend, but for the Muslim community in western Wayne County, preparations for Ramadan are underway through a new Ramadan market featuring more than 20 makers, artisans and entrepreneurs. The first-ever Ramadan market, envisioned by Fatima Siddiqui of Flowing Script Calligraphy, showcased housewares, clothing, artwork and, of course, delicious food in anticipation for Ramadan to begin April 2.

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PBS NewsHour’s Community Correspondent Frances Kai-Hwa Wang and One Detroit Senior Producer Bill Kubota visits the market to talk with several of the vendors, including Mona Musa’s Taste of Egypt, Not Your Basic Batch, Bushra Murad’s Barakah Boutique, Fatima Ahmad’s Color Valley Designs and more to better understand the history of the Islamic holiday, the impact COVID-19 had on Ramadan and the importance of showcasing the holiday tradition in metro Detroit in the years to come.

The Scarab Club Showcases Memorial Art Exhibit for Artist, Mentor Gilda Snowden

She was known as a friend, a mentor, an artist and a Detroiter through and through, and now local artists are coming together to pay tribute to the legacy she left behind. The Scarab Club, in Detroit’s Midtown, recently unveiled its annual art exhibit and memorial to the late Detroit artist Gilda Snowden, open through April 15, 2022. The mixed-media exhibit, open to all artists, was reframed in 2015 to commemorate Snowden’s impact on Detroit’s arts community before she passed away in 2014.

In celebration of Women’s History Month, “American Black Journal” producer AJ Walker takes viewers to the Gilda Snowden Memorial Art Exhibit opening to see the works from local artists on display this year, as well as to hear first-hand anecdotes of Snowden’s community impact and cultural legacy from Gallery Director Treena Flannery-Erickson and this year’s featured artists.

Great Lakes Now | Lighthouse Preservation Efforts Underway for Spectacle Reef Lighthouse

Lake Huron and Lake Michigan come together in the Straits of Mackinac—long considered one of the most treacherous waterways on all of the Great Lakes. For nearly 150 years, the Spectacle Reef Lighthouse has guarded ships passing through the Straits. It sits twelve miles and a world away from the mainland. Today, the lighthouse needs restoration efforts if it’s going to survive.

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Great Lakes Now talks with Pat McKinstry, president of the Spectacle Reef Preservation Society, and Carl and Marcia Jahn, two lighthouse keepers of the Great Lakes, about the Spectacle Reef Lighthouse, and the preservation efforts and initiatives going into restoring the historic, iconic site.

 

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