By Just when you’d thought you heard it all. A Victoria’s Secret model, Devon Windsor, ignited controversy when she claimed she related to the issues faced by women of color because she has blonde hair that requires expensive highlights every month, as well as the fact that she has modeled in various countries where she didn’t…
By Sahar AkbarzaiIn what seems to be an episode of “The Celebrity Apprentice,” Trump’s White House seems to be facing constant instability. The White House press secretary, Sean Spicer, first resigned on July 21 after it was confirmed that the New York hedge fund magnate, Anthony Scaramucci, also knows as “The Mooch,” was hired as the new…
By Naaz ModanMerseyside Police is investigating a man who appeared in a widely-shared racist video following the Manchester explosion and London attacks. The video shows a man wielding a machete and peering into the camera strapped to what appears to be a grenade as he threatens to behead Muslims. “This is a quick message for Muslims,” the clip…
By Fatima NOne of Nebraska’s city council candidates wants Muslims and the practice of Islam completely banned from the U.S. He calls it his own Muslim ban, inspired by Donald Trump. His version however, has nothing to do with travel. In an interview with WOWT, an NBC-affiliated television station located in Omaha, Nebraska, the candidate, Paul Anderson…
By Marwa AdinaYou know what bigots do when they find themselves in a sticky situation at the workplace? Resign. Remember when Rumana Ahmed explained to us how she lasted only eight days on the National Security Council during Trump’s administration? Looks like Plymouth City’s Clerk, Linda Langmesser, had an opinion about that. Langmesser’s Facebook revealed a public anti-Muslim…
By Guest BloggerWritten by Vanessa Taylor, Founder of The Black Liberation Project. You truly thought this shit started 15 years ago This election season bore no surprises for me. I’ve scrolled through Twitter and Facebook, looked at texts from family without bothering to reply, scanned panicked emails. “Trump’s going to come after women,” people would say in…
By Guest BloggerWritten By: Lina Abdul-Samad. “Drop the A-word.”* Abed. Abeed. The Arab community knows this word all too well; “Abeed” is a derogatory Arabic slang term that is used to refer to Black people. This word is almost synonymous with the N- word. The main difference between these two racist terms is that the N-word is…
By iqramehdiPresident Trump is right. I built a wall along Israel’s southern border. It stopped all illegal immigration. Great success. Great idea ???? — Benjamin Netanyahu (@netanyahu) January 28, 2017 Like pretty much everything else happening right now that we wish was some episode of “Punk’d,” this is also very real: Benjamin Netanyahu trailed his fingers…
By nihalmubarakMr. President, You have now held the highest office in the land for 48 hours. In that time, the world has waited with bated breath to see what initial actions you would take as president of the United States of America. Your inauguration speech gave us no comfort, for it was delivered in the same…
By imanabidThe Senate Judiciary Committee has been reviewing Jeff Sessions’ history at the Confirmation Hearing since this past Tuesday. With the majority of conversation surrounding an attack on African Americans, civil rights, and “Law and Order,” you would be confused between what decade you were in. You’ve probably already heard a multitude of things about Sessions…
By lailakhanBullying is in. When a man can be elected as the President of the United States, despite mocking a reporter with a disability, openly bragging about sexually assaulting women, and pretty much insulting 289 other people places and things — what comes next shouldn’t surprise us. White Supremacy has been given a platform (the White House), the KKK…
By MG StaffIn a recent Facebook post, Lt. Colonel Allen West of the U.S. Army, who also served as a former Florida representative, wrote that the incoming defense secretary will exterminate all Muslims, with an attached meme: Can we let those words sink in for a minute? Exterminate. In case you didn’t catch on, this is genocide, people. Let’s…
By lailakhanIsraeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has put into motion yet another oppressive tactic against the Palestinian people, this time trying to silence the holy call to prayer. A proposal has been sent to the Israeli Parliament, backed by Netanyahu, to ban loudspeakers in places of worship to cut down on “noise pollution” across all of “Israel.” This ban…
By akhalilAccording to a “60 Minutes” interview with Donald Trump, at least two to three million undocumented immigrants will be deported after the President-elect is inaugurated in January. During the interview, Trump said those immigrants who are undocumented with criminal records will be deported immediately. “What we are going to do is get the people that are criminal and…
By Guest BloggerWritten by Lubabah Chowdhury Dear Asra Nomani, You will not remember this, but you and I have actually met before. You came to speak at my alma mater when I was a junior at college, just beginning to develop a political understanding that moved beyond well-intentioned but misguided liberalism and strengthening my connection to a faith…
