July 8th, 20220A new report by a Muslim civil rights and political organization shows significant disapproval among Muslim voters of President Biden’s performance, but a projection that voters will prefer Democrats in the coming midterm election.
The report was released this week by the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) — which calls...
September 11th, 20210Twenty years later, the Muslim community in the U.S. and abroad is reflecting on the legacy of U.S. response to the events of Sept. 11, 2001.
The tragedy and trauma of the surreal attacks of that day are coupled with two decades of domestic and foreign policy that deeply changed the relationship between the U.S. government,...
September 10th, 20210— This article by Abdul El-Sayed originally appeared in the newsletter The Incision. It has been edited for style. Subscribe to The Incision here: incision.substack.com
Saturday marks the 20th anniversary of the horrific terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center. Nearly 3,000 people lost their lives on that fateful day. We...
August 31st, 20210After the release of the FBI’s annual hate crime statistics, a civil rights group is asking the Biden administration to make federal assistance to local law enforcement agencies contingent on their reporting and compiling of hate crime data.
The FBI’s latest statistics on hate crimes show the biggest spike since 2008. The report...
May 29th, 20210By Hayg Oshagan
What is it?
Every 10 years, every state redraws all of its district election maps. For Michigan, that’s 110 House district maps, 38 Senate district maps and 13 U.S. Congressional district maps. Once these are drawn, you elect your Michigan House, Michigan Senate and U.S. Congressional representatives based on...
April 22nd, 20210WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Senate overwhelmingly passed a bill that targets hate crimes directed towards Asian Americans on Thursday. The legislation comes amid an increase in discrimination and violence against Asian communities in the U.S. during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Officially titled the COVID-19 Hate Crimes Act, the...
March 19th, 20210ATLANTA — A White gunman has been charged with killing eight people, most of them Asian women, in attacks at three Atlanta-area massage parlors on Tuesday.
Police have said that the suspect, 21-year-old Robert Aaron Long, had been previously treated for sex addiction and had frequented the spas.
It’s not clear whether...
December 26th, 20191LOS ANGELES — While hundreds of thousands of immigrants with Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) permits await the decision of the Supreme Court on the future of the program, lawyers and immigrant advocates argue that the vast majority of them have sufficient legal rights to remain in this country for several years and maybe...
June 22nd, 20190Combatting a predicted major undercounting of people of color in the 2020 U.S. Census was the focus of a national roundtable discussion, featuring key representatives of civil rights and voting rights organizations, earlier this month.
In sometimes heated presentations, representatives of the Fair Immigration Reform Movement (FIRM), the...
February 16th, 20180By Frances Kai-Hwa Wang
MI Asian
"Before it was even called urban gardening, my parents kept a garden in the backyard ever since I was a kid," said Shane Bernardo, a life-long Detroit resident and a consultant, facilitator and speaker actively involved in food justice. "So I learned at a very early age how strongly my family...
