Join us for breakfast and help fight cancer
The ACCESS Breast and Cervical Cancer Control Program (BCCCP) invites you to its first annual Celebrating Life Banquet benefitting Susan G. Komen Detroit Race for the Cure from 10 a.m.-1 p.m. on Saturday, June 1 at Bint Jebail Banquet Hall, 6220 Miller Rd., Dearborn. Tickets are $25, and various additional sponsorships are available. Click here for more information, or contact Hiam Hamade at 313-216-2206 or hhamade@accesscommunity.org. Let’s work together to fight cancer!
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Diversity music fest has the whole world in its bands

Led by classic funksters The Family Stone (above), super producer Don Was’ 6th Detroit All-Star Revue and the intriguing combination of the Symphony Orchestra and Ozomatli, the 21st Concert of Colors delivers Hot Fun in the Summertime June 29 and July 4-7. The 8:30 p.m. Sunday, July 7 Revue closes out the festival with a re-teaming of two members of the seminal Detroit band MC5 – guitarist Wayne Kramer and drummer Dennis “Machine Gun” Thompson – on the Main Stage at historic Orchestra Hall. Presented for the second year running by the Ford Foundation at several leading cultural destinations in Midtown Detroit, the festival celebrates the city’s indigenous sounds and music reflecting the many cultures represented in southeast Michigan. View the complete schedule here.
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AANM leaders honored

This month, three Arab American National Museum leaders were honored for excellence and contributions to our nation and world. Arab American National Museum founding Director Dr. Anan Ameri accepted the 2013 International Service Citation given by the U.S. Committee of the International Council of Museums at a May 19 luncheon in Baltimore. And Museum National Advisory Board members Dr. Jack Shaheen and Russell Ebeid received the Ellis Island Medal of Honor at a ceremony in the Great Hall on Ellis Island May 11, for their cultural heritage preservation work. Mabrouk! Well deserved!
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