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The ACCESS 44th Annual Dinner, held April 25, 2015, at the Detroit Marriott at the Renaissance Center, served as the launching pad for the #IAMACCESS social media campaign.

Arab American of the Year award recipients Dr. Jack Shaheen (left) and Dr. Khaled Mattawa (right).

We are only three weeks away from the ACCESS 44th Annual Dinner. Don’t miss out on this exciting event!

Last month, ACCESS named Rana Abbas as its Director of Communications and Marketing.  Rana joined ACCESS in November 2013 and has over 15 years of community service and communications experience. 

On March 11, in honor of Women’s History Month, ACCESS and the Inkster Chapter of the Delta Sigma Theta sorority, in partnership with AARP Michigan, hosted its 2nd Annual Women’s Race Dialogue at t

Don’t miss out on the opportunity to be part of our signature event!

It is difficult to believe what the people of North America have witnessed in a week’s time.

The Campaign to TAKE ON HATE, led by the National Network for Arab American Communities (NNAAC), a project of ACCESS, held a vigil for three Muslim Americans killed in Chapel Hill, N.C.

"Munira Kassim, VOCA Program Supervisor at ACCESS, said one of the challenges the organization faces as a service agency rooted within the community is 'giving a sense of safety' to hidden victims

"As news spread of Tuesday night’s deadly North Carolina shootings, the Arab-American community became outraged that the three college students may have been shot because they were Muslim."

The Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan (CFSEM) recently awarded the ACCESS Youth and Education department a $10,000 grant to support the Dearborn Youth Empowerment Initiative (DYEI).