By Sumaia MasoomDuke University administrators welcomed members of the Class of 2019 to campus in August. One hit-and-run, one cover-up, and a slew of other racial slurs and instances of discrimination later, they’re now surrounding a campus building with police and threatening to arrest some of these same students. A total of 9 students – senior Amy…
By Sumaia MasoomOn Thursday, police were investigating claims of an alleged hate crime in lower Manhattan. It was made by a 20 year-old Middle Eastern beauty-student, who reported her face was slashed by a man as she was leaving the Make-up Designory Beauty School for the day. According to the student, the man, who was dressed in a black…
By Sumaia Masoom(Above is a map of the anti-Muslim attacks and instances of Islamophobic hate speech since August 6, 2015, the date of the first debate of this election cycle.) The following is a running list of Islamophobic attacks in the United States of America – both physical and verbal – since the date of the first…
By Sumaia MasoomPresidential-hopeful and general-popularizer of bigotry Donald Trump was at it again Friday. Promoting torture and the violation of human rights was on the agenda, as per usual, he again claimed that waterboarding was only “minimal, minimal, minimal torture,” and not nearly enough for use against suspected terrorists. But then the rally somehow managed to become…
By Sumaia MasoomOh, Beyoncé, do we need to talk. Most of my senior year of high school was spent listening to “***Flawless” on repeat and wondering why I was even bothering doing my calculus homework if it wasn’t going to make me any closer to becoming you, Beyoncé. As a young woman of color, I have admired…
By Sumaia MasoomFollowing one of the worst environmental catastrophes the United States has ever seen, a Muslim service group called “Who Is Hussain?” has donated 30,000 bottles of water to the city of Flint, Mich. The ongoing water crisis first began in April 2014, when the city switched the source of its water supply from Lake Huron…
