Muslim Comics in a Mordant Act of ‘Resistance’
Source : The New York Times By Sopan Deb “Look at how many brown people are here!” Dean Obeidallah said to cheers after taking the stage Sunday at the Comic […]
CIA releases 13m pages of declassified documents online
Source: BBC About 13 million pages of declassified documents from the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) have been released online. The records include UFO sightings and psychic experiments from the […]
President Obama designates historic civil rights sites including black churches
Source: Religion News Service By Adelle M. Banks (RNS) In one of his last official acts, President Obama has designated Sixteenth Street Baptist Church and other civil rights landmarks in […]
Did God choose Trump? What it means to believe in divine intervention
Source: RNS By Lauren Markoe (Editor’s note: Since Donald Trump’s victory in last year’s election, many Christians became convinced he was chosen by God to be president even though he […]
U.S. Abortion Rate Falls To Lowest Level Since Roe v. Wade
Source: NPR By SARAH MCCAMMON The abortion rate in the United States fell to its lowest level since the historic Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision legalized abortion nationwide, a new report finds. The report by the Guttmacher Institute, a research group that supports legalized abortion, puts the rate at 14.6 […]
Farewell to Eugene Cernan, the Last Man to Walk on the Moon
Source: Time Jeffrey Kluger Gene Cernan never knew about the plan NASA approved to cut him loose in space — or at least he didn’t know about it at the […]
5 Ways America Changed During Obama’s Presidency
Source: Time BY Ryan Teague Beckwith@ryanbeckwith Chris Wilson@chriswilsondc The country that Donald Trump will assume leadership of on Jan. 20, 2017 looks vastly different from the one that President Obama […]
USA: Muslim Comics in a Mordant Act of ‘Resistance’
The Muslim stand-up performer, one of several on the bill that night, looked both jubilant and deeply satisfied as he continued to eye the sold-out audience of 200. “This room, ” he said, “is Donald Trump’s worst nightmare.” Mr. Obeidallah, who is half-Palestinian and half-Italian, created the recurring show, “The […]
Donald Trump Promises ‘Insurance for Everybody’ With Obamacare Replacement Plan
Source: Time President-elect Donald Trump says his plan to replace the nation’s health care law will include “insurance for everybody.” Trump made the comment in an interview with the Washington […]
Wife of Orlando Mass Shooter Omar Mateen Arrested
Source: Time Law enforcement arrested the wife of the man who carried out the mass shooting at a gay nightclub in Orlando, a federal official said Monday. The FBI reportedly charged Noor Salman with obstruction in connection to the June attack on Pulse Nightclub that killed 49 people and wounded […]
China Has More To Lose Than the U.S. Under a Trump Administration
Source: Fortune By Minxin Pei As Donald Trump is sworn into office this week, among many of the possible disruptive initiatives his administration may launch is a trade war with China. […]
We hold these Truths to be Self-Evident Also: Thomas Jefferson Memorial Inscriptions
Source: National Park Service Rotunda “I have sworn upon the altar of God eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.” -Excerpted from a letter to […]
Melinda Gates: We Can Honor MLK Jr Through Service
Source: Motto By Melinda Gates We remember Martin Luther King, Jr., of course, for his extraordinary leadership during the Civil Rights Movement, his insistence that nonviolence could be stronger than […]
9 key issues affecting girls and women around the world
Global Citizen: by Hans Glick — Flickr: sandeepachetan I’ll be the first to admit that I don’t always “get” the women in my life quite like I do my male friends and relatives—just ask my girlfriend, who is probably convinced I was raised by a pack of wolves considering how oblivious I […]
Katy Perry PSA For American Muslims Asks ‘Is History Repeating Itself?’
Huff Post: by Karol Kuruwala — The video has a surprising (and haunting) twist. DONT NORMALIZE HATE / YOUTUBE Katy Perry executive produced a video telling the story of Haru Kuromiya, who was incarcerated by the American government during World War I Confronted with an increase in hate crimes and Islamophobic rhetoric, […]
USA: Donald Trump: Kremlin Employee of the Month?
The humor writer Andy Borowitz recently joked that Donald Trump had been named the Kremlin’s “employee of the month.” I giggled at that, and then winced. It’s painful even to joke about. Nicholas Kristof JAN. 14, 2017 NYTimes.com Some of the most explosive reports about America in the last few days appeared in Israeli newspapers. They […]
Man arrested after Washington state Islamic Center fire
Source: Religion News Service By Nathan Frandino (Reuters) A Washington man was arrested on charges of setting fire to an Islamic center in Bellevue, Wash., authorities said. Isaac Wayne Wilson, […]
Donald Trump Suggests He Would Consider Lifting Sanctions on Russia
Source: Time BY Katie Reilly President-elect Donald Trump suggested Friday that he would be open to ending U.S. sanctions against Russia. Trump said that “at least for a period of time,” […]
Gay Couple Will Lead Historic DC Church With A Vision Of Justice
Source: Huffington Post By Antonia Blumberg Associate Religion Editor, The Huffington Post A 155-year-old Baptist church in Washington DC recently named a married, gay couple to be its senior ministers with […]
Justice Department Releases Scathing Report on Chicago Police Department Abuses
Source: Time By Michael Tarm and Don Babwin / AP (CHICAGO) — Institutional problems within the Chicago Police Department have led to serious civil rights violations for years, including racial bias […]