Source: Huffington Post BY Amanda Terkel Senior Political Reporter, The Huffington Post As someone who’s Asian-American, all my life I’ve dealt with people who assume that I speak Chinese. The majority of times I get in a cab, one of the first questions from the driver will be, “Where are you […]
Source: The New York Times By LAURIE GOODSTEIN Former President Jimmy Carter, who has long put religion and racial reconciliation at the center of his life, is on a mission […]
Source: Los Angeles Times By Sonali Kohli The Japanese American children who spent years in World War II internment camps were hopeful. Some thought racial discrimination would end after the […]
Source: The Washington Post By Julie Zauzmer A Christian pastor in the nation’s third-most-populous county tried to stop a Muslim man from serving in the local Republican Party because of his religion. The massive jurisdiction of Harris County, Tex. — with 4 million residents in the city of Houston and its surroundings […]
Epigraph: O mankind, We have created you from a male and a female; and We have made you into tribes and sub-tribes that you may recognize one another. Indeed, the […]
Christianity, Examined Source: Huffington Post By Rev. Dr. Susan K. Smith; Writer, author, musician, pastor, preacher and social justice advocate. Over 50 faith leaders from across the country, representing various denominations, added their signatures to a statement entitled “Called to Resist Bigotry – A Statement of Faithful Obedience.” These faith leaders addressed […]
Source: The Guardian By Tom Dart in Houston At San Domingo cemetery in rural south Texas, there are headstones marking the graves of people with names such as Davis, Baker, Harris […]
Source: The Guardian By Sam Levin in San Francisco Seven Muslim women who were kicked out of a southern California restaurant are suing the business for discrimination, alleging that they were […]
Source: Telegraph By Kate McCann, senior political correspondent Labour has secretly suspended 50 of its members over anti-Semitic and racist comments as officials struggle to cope with the crisis engulfing the party. […]
Source: The Washington Post By Ishaan Tharoor There’s no Western statesmen — at least in the English-speaking world — more routinely lionized than Winston Churchill. Last Friday marked a half century since his […]
Hamilton to stay on $10, Jackson getting replaced by Tubman Treasury Secretary Jack Lew on Wednesday will announce plans to both keep Alexander Hamilton on the front of the $10 […]
Source: BBC The founder of Germany’s anti-Islamist Pegida movement has gone on trial in Dresden on hate speech charges. Lutz Bachmann, 43, is accused of inciting racial hatred in Facebook posts, in which he called refugees “cattle”, “scumbags” and “filth”. Pegida’s rallies have attracted thousands of supporters in Germany. Separately, […]
Source: The Guardian By Zach Stafford in Chicago and Spencer Ackerman in New York The Rev Jesse Jackson has called for Chicago police to close the warehouse it uses for thousands […]
A Muslim private school in the UK distributed leaflets condemning British society and reproducing anti-Semitic libels, according to an exclusive expose by Sky News. Mufti Zubair Dudha, the founder and head of the Islamic Tarbiyah Academy in Dewsbury in northen England, produced the leaflets. One quotes the famous anti-Semitic forgery ‘The Protocols […]
Source: Huffington Post By Rev. Dr. Susan K. Smith Writer, author, musician, pastor, preacher and social justice advocate. I keep wondering if racism can be eradicated here in America. I think […]
Source: The Guardian By Kim Willsher The French minister for women’s rights has been accused of racism after comparing women who wear the burqa to “negroes” who supported slavery. Laurence Rossignol […]
Source: Politico During an MSNBC town hall event in Columbus, Ohio, Bernie Sanders falsely assumed an audience member who asked a question about violence against religious and ethnic minorities was […]
Source: BBC US President Barack Obama has warned White House contenders to avoid raising tensions, a day after a rally by Donald Trump was called off amid clashes. Mr Obama […]
The divisive rhetoric and encouragement of violence we're hearing from Donald Trump isn't just wrong—it's dangerous.https://t.co/RMWoqHNU5u — Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) March 12, 2016 //platform.twitter.com/widgets.js
Epigraph: O ye people! Be mindful of your duty to your Lord, Who created you from a single first life form and created therefrom its mate, and from them over […]