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Black voters feel trapped in the duopoly but other groups are giving a master class in political courage. The Abandon Biden campaign shows the way. Face the Nation Host Margaret Brennan: Thasin, you did change your mind on the president. Why? Thasin: I was a champion for Joe Biden until October 7. I feel he disowned us, […]
Historian Simon Sebag Montefiore said that claims “Zionist” doctors harmed patients were a tenet of anti-Semitism. “A call to purge dangerous ‘Zionist doctors’ and ‘decolonise’ medicine,” he wrote on X, formerly known as Twitter. “Out of the slime of racist history crawls the blood libel and Stalin’s anti-Jewish Doctor’s Plot: he devised personally the lie […]
The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) has submitted a discrimination complaint on behalf of Hajur El-Haggan, a Black Muslim Arab American teacher in Maryland, reported CNN. El-Haggan, a middle school math teacher at Argyle Middle School within the Montgomery County Public Schools (MCPS) since 2015, was placed on administrative leave on November 20 due to […]
The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) has submitted a discrimination complaint on behalf of Hajur El-Haggan, a Black Muslim Arab American teacher in Maryland, reported CNN. El-Haggan, a middle school math teacher at Argyle Middle School within the Montgomery County Public Schools (MCPS) since 2015, was placed on administrative leave on November 20 due to […]
The highest court in Massachusetts has vacated sex trafficking convictions against a Black Muslim man whose court-appointed attorney had a history of posting racist and anti-Muslim vitriol on social media. Attorney Richard Doyle had a conflict of interest that deprived the defendant of his right to effective assistance of counsel, “a right upon which our […]
(RNS) — Ninety-seven years ago, Carter G. Woodson began his campaign to initiate Negro History Week, which would later become Black History Month, to celebrate the rich history of African Americans’ contribution to this country. But even then, the legacy of Black Muslim Americans was at times intentionally left out. Islam was largely introduced to […]
A Portland, Oregon, man is facing multiple federal hate crime charges, after authorities said he set fire to a Muslim center, and vandalized two synagogues and a Black-owned business. Michael Edgar Bivins, 34, is also facing
YOGYAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — On the outskirts of Yogyakarta, an Indonesian city that’s home to many universities, is a small boarding school with a mission that seems out of place in a nation with more Muslim citizens than any other. Its students are transgender women. It is a rare oasis of LGBTQ acceptance – not […]
Selected by MPAC Hollywood Bureau in 2021 for the Warner Media Writer Development Project, in partnership with The Black List, Jenny Triplett, a seasoned writer of TV, radio, podcasts and best selling author of Surviving Marriage in the 21st Century, has penned a script for an underrepresented demographic of people. The injustices and hardships of Black […]
We will not tolerate actions that go against the fundamental principles of the oath we share, including actions associated with extremist or dissident ideologies. Service members, DoD civilian employees, and all those who support our mission, deserve an environment free of discrimination, hate, and harassment. — Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, Extremism Stand-Down Memo, Feb 5, […]