Labor Day in Hamtramck
Once primarily Polish, this city (pronounced Ham-Tram-Ik) of some 23,000 citizens, surrounded except for one short side by Detroit, is now the most diverse city in Michigan. It hosts the annual Canoe Race & Polish Day Parade on Labor Day. Hamtramck is reportedly the first Muslim-majority city in the nation and the first to elect a Muslim-majority city council.
"In the first majority-Muslim U.S. city, residents tense about its future," by Sarah Pulliam Bailey (2015)
photos by skip schiel & teeksa photography
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