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2015: Hamtramck becomes the first American city to elect a Muslim-majority city council. [9] [10] 2018: The city is released from emergency management for the second time. [129] 2022: Hamtramck becomes the first American city with an all-Muslim government. [100] 2023: Hamtramck City Council enacts pride flag restrictions and approves animal ...
Amer Ghalib is an American politician serving as the Democratic mayor of Hamtramck, Michigan, since November 3, 2021. He is the first Arab American and Muslim to serve as mayor of Hamtramck. He is a social conservative and endorsed Donald Trump in the 2024 United States presidential election.
In 1910, Hamtramck was home to 3500 people, and Dodge decided to build a new automotive plant, Dodge Main, at the southeast corner of the village. The plant was completed in 1914 and workers flooded into the area, many of them Polish. [4] By 1920, the population of Hamtramck had boomed to 48,000, an increase of over 13 times in ten years.
The 223-page suit was filed against the city, Mayor Amer Ghalib and city councilmen on behalf of two former city commissioners with the Human Relations Commission, Russ Gordon and former Hamtramck ...
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Hamtramck Mayor Amer Ghalib, center, and Hamtramck City Manager Max Garbarino, left, speaks with people following a ceremony for the renaming of Holbrook Street in Hamtramck to Palestine Avenue on ...
Kathy was appointed as the Interim City Manager on July 11, 2017, [11] in a meeting that involved much yelling and disagreement between council members. Her appointment was a point of contention on the Hamtramck Council. On August 7, 2018, in the primary election, a City Charter Amendment [12] was adopted, changing the way the City Manager is ...
Hamtramck is not the first city to rename a street in support of Palestinians. In 2022, Paterson, New Jersey, which has a large number of Palestinian Americans, renamed a street "Palestine Way."