Also, congrats to @MichiganRadio's Rachel Ishikawa and Beenish Ahmed. The MI Associated Press Media Editors honored Rachel as 2022 Rising Star and Beenish as Best Reporter/Anchor. And our colleagues won many more awards, see all the honors at the link. drive.google.com/file/d/1hRqBs8…

The hearing to determine if Oxford school shooter should be exempt from life without parole because of his age, family life, and other factors wraps today. I've been doing live for @MichiganRadio here: michiganradio.org/live-updates/h…

I'll be on Here & Now talking about this at or just after 1:00 today.

Breaking: Life without the possibility of parole will be among the sentencing options for the teenager who killed four students at Oxford High School nearly two years ago. michiganradio.org/criminal-justi…

Breaking: Detroit Police Department Chief White says fatal stabbing of the board president of the recently renovated Downtown Synogogue this weekend was "not motivated by anti-semitism." facebook.com/CityofDetroit/…

"We are confident with what we have right now" that this is not a hate crime, based on crime scene investigation + numerous interviews since Samantha Woll was found dead outside her home on Saturday morning.

Many immigrant Muslims were uneasy with standing up for their rights after the collective blame of 9/11 but, American-born Muslims - including elected officials like Abdullah H. Hammoud + Rashida Tlaib - don't have the same fear now. My latest for @MichiganRadio: michiganradio.org/public-safety/…

I can’t get over the absence of Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi from New York Times Books’ top 100 so far this century. To me, that novel stitched together the Transatlantic trade of enslaved people and made the lingering impact of it on both sides of the ocean feel so unbelievably real.