Frances Kai-Hwa Wang

1 month ago | pbs.org | Frances Kai-Hwa Wang

Omer Jean Dixon Winborn still remembers the tomatoes and greens from her father’s garden. “When I was growing up, I could go in the garden, wash a tomato off and just sink my teeth down in it, and it would be so sweet and good,” she said. The tomatoes she finds at the grocery store today — hard, no taste — pale in comparison to those that grew in her father’s garden. “Fresh stuff, oh — so, so much better,” she said.

1 month ago | pbs.org | Frances Kai-Hwa Wang

Tamika Jackson’s heart stopped beating while she was giving birth to her son. Doctors were able to revive Jackson. But the moment and the subsequent trauma underscored why some people do not have a great experience giving birth. “I wasn’t listened to when I delivered,” Jackson told attendees at an October health summit in Dearborn, Michigan. “There wasn’t anything to do with my health. No economic disparity existed. I was perfectly healthy,” said Jackson, a community organizer for Mothering Justice.

Nov 21, 2024 | pbs.org | Frances Kai-Hwa Wang

Dearborn Mayor Abdullah Hammoud has heard plenty of political takes on former President Donald Trump’s election victory. Trump flipped Michigan, receiving nearly half of the vote in a key battleground state that backed Biden in 2020 by 154,000 votes. In Dearborn, the largest Arab American-majority city in the country, Trump received more than 42 percent of the vote, while Vice President Kamala Harris got 36 percent and Green Party candidate Jill Stein got 18.

Nov 5, 2024 | pbs.org | Frances Kai-Hwa Wang

More than 310,000 people of Middle Eastern or North African (MENA) ancestry call Michigan home, according to 2020 census data, and there are more than 200,000 Muslim American voters in the state, according to Emgage, including many Asian, Arab, and Black Americans. For many Muslim and Arab Americans, Israel’s wars in Gaza, Lebanon, and the wider Middle East are personal, and so is this election.

Nov 5, 2024 | pbs.org | Frances Kai-Hwa Wang

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Tropical Storm Rafael was chugging past western Jamaica on Tuesday and was expected to strengthen into a hurricane as it headed toward Cuba. The storm was located 65 miles (105 kilometers) southwest of Montego Bay, Jamaica, on Tuesday morning. It had maximum sustained winds of 60 mph (95 kph) and was moving northwest at 13 mph (20 kph), according to the National Hurricane Center in Miami.