By najiatameezWe have become used to adding names to the list of slain Black brethren and mostly expect our cries for reform and justice to be ignored. We do not expect indictments for murders. We just hope to make enough noise so that someone, somewhere, hears our cries. So when our calls for justice are actually…
By najiatameezI remind myself every day to check my privilege. I remind myself every day that while I am a woman of color, my struggle is not analogous to the struggle of my people, because of my circumstances and the opportunities I have been afforded. And then, I remind myself that the struggle of my people…
By najiatameezOn April 19, 2015, the United States Council of Muslim Organizations (USCMO) penned a press release regarding “the tragedy that befell Armenians” in 1915 at the hands of the Ottoman Empire. Rather than call the tragedy what it was, a genocide, USMCO is calling for the characterization of those events to be “balanced, constructive and…
