London mayor says US president is fuelling Islamic State’s clash of civilisations ideology with his call to close borders to Muslims Sadiq Khan: ‘You’d have to ask Donald Trump what his issue is with me’ – video Anushka Asthana Political editor Sunday 24 September 2017 19.05 BST Last modified on Monday […]
Source: Pew Research Center BY HANNAH FINGERHUT While a large majority of Americans rate police officers positively on a 0-to-100 “feeling thermometer,” whites and blacks differ widely in their views, including […]
Source: Washington Post By Julie Zauzmer The synagogue members hammered stakes into the ground on a hot September afternoon, then draped each one with a t-shirt bearing the name of a […]
Source: CNN By Mark Tutton, CNN London (CNN)More than 40 million people were estimated to be victims of modern slavery in 2016 — and one in four of those were […]
Source: Pew Research Center BY JEFF DIAMANT, BESHEER MOHAMED AND ELIZABETH PODREBARAC SCIUPAC Two-thirds of Muslims in the United States (67%) say the country needs to continue making changes to give blacks equal rights […]
Source: Religions By Craig Considine; Department of Sociology, Rice University; 6100 Main St., Houston, TX 770055, USA Abstract This paper explores the intersectionality of race and Islamophobia by […]
Source: Time By Aric Jenkins 7:00 PM ET The sole black Republican in the Senate, Tim Scott, tried to explain racism in the U.S. to President Donald Trump Wednesday following […]
Source: The Washington Post BY Rabbi Jonah Dov Pesner and Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II Congress returns to work this week for the first time since blood was shed in Charlottesville. […]
Source: Time BY Aurelie Corinthios / People Sep 01, 2017 Chloe Bennet is speaking out against discrimination in show business. The Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. star posted an Instagram praising actor Ed Skrein for stepping down from playing Major Ben Daimio in the upcoming Hellboy reboot after learning that in the original comic, the character is of mixed Asian […]
Source: ETonline By Liz Calvario We finally know why JAY-Z and Beyonce named their twins Rumi and Sir. The 47-year-old rapper explained the origin of their little ones’ names in […]
Source: CNN By Jessica Suerth Updated 1059 GMT (1859 HKT) August 21, 2017 (CNN) More than 150 years after the Civil War ended, the Confederacy is memorialized with statues, monuments […]
Source: Vox In the weeks leading up to Sunday, August 13, Emily C. Heath, a United Church of Christ pastor in Exeter, New Hampshire, was preparing her sermon for that […]
Source: BBC An Indian woman in the southern state of Telangana says she is being “socially ostracised” because she supported a farmer from the Dalit (formerly untouchable) community. Sama Indira, […]
Source: BBC News Former Presidents George HW Bush and George W Bush have called on the US to “reject racial bigotry, anti-Semitism and hatred in all forms”. They are the […]
Source: BBC News A monument to pro-slavery forces is destroyed, in the wake of clashes in Charlottesville. No arrests have been reported in connection with the incident in Durham, North […]
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times Recent tragedies in Charlottesville has shook the conscience of a nation wounded by racism once again. The […]
A friend of Heather Heyer who was killed in the Charlottesville car attack has spoken to the BBC. Please watch the video in BBC Suggested Reading To Refute the Hate-mongering […]
Source: BBC News Affirmative action – a touchstone of the US culture wars – is back in the headlines after a claim the justice department was considering a plan to […]
Source: Huffington Post “The shards that cut me the deepest were the ones that intended to cut.” By Rebecca Shapiro Michelle Obama has opened up in front of a crowd of about 8,500 at the Women’s Foundation of Colorado’s 30th anniversary event in Denver about her experience as America’s first black first lady. […]
Source: Huffington Post By Antonia Blumberg A new report by Pew Research Center shows that U.S. Muslims feel unsure of their place in society, face increasing discrimination and are dissatisfied with the […]