Israel/Gaza 2023

Today, reaching some of Michigan’s most diverse micro-communities of voters: the LGBTQ community. Also, the stories of Michigan, as told by the built environment. And, the endless days and sleepless nights of witnessing Israel’s attacks on Lebanon.

For the past year, the violence and destruction in Gaza has dominated the headlines. The Uncommitted Movement began here as a desperate plea from pro-Palestinian voters seeking to have their voices heard. Not only did they force elected officials to listen, but they made history. What the Vote? looked at how they did it—and what happens now.

Today, the climate of election disinformation about immigrants, and how people in different Michigan communities actually feel about immigrants. Also, helping Native voters get ready for elections — and getting Michigan’s election administrators ready for tribal citizens. Plus, a master of Anishinaabe Black Ash basketry talks about the people and stories that feed and inform her work.

People have been immigrating to Michigan from Arab countries for more than 100 years. And they've been involved in politics and community building just as long. So, how does that history inform this present moment in American politics as news of recent Israeli strikes in Lebanon reach an Arab and Muslim American electorate already mobilized for Gaza?

Michigan voters may make a big difference in the presidential election. Here's what we know about candidate plans for the economy, abortion, immigration, Ukraine, Gaza and other issues you care about.

Today, how it started, and how it’s going with Flint’s child health experiment, Rx Kids. Also, a year of open conflict between Israel and its neighbors takes its toll in Michigan. Plus, how to get up to speed on Michigan Supreme Court candidates.

Several speakers at Stein's Dearborn rally called on Michiganders to “punish” Harris for supporting Israeli military strikes in Gaza and southern Lebanon.

Hamas-led militants killed some 1,200 people in the 2023 attack and took another 250 hostage. Nearly 42,000 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza since the war began.

Michigan’s Lebanese-American community is reeling as violence spreads in the Middle East. The scale of Israel’s exponential escalation of war with Hezbollah in Lebanon is hard to fathom as yet more civilians have been caught in the middle. Journalist Razi Jafri has spent the past many months following the personal and political change happening in Dearborn, Dearborn Heights, and Hamtramck - communities in Michigan that have high populations of Arab Americans.

Members of Michigan's large Lebanese American community showed up at a rally in metro Detroit to show their support of Lebanon as the conflict in the Middle East escalates.