Replacing Bullet-Riddled Emmett Till Marker

Replacing Bullet-Riddled Emmett Till Marker

By Breanna Edwards—Oct 24, 2016 A fundraiser started to replace a memorial sign marking the place where Emmett Till’s brutalized body was discovered in Mississippi’s Tallahatchie River in 1955 has exceeded its $15,000 goal, the New York Daily News reports. The...
New Cohort of Award Winning Muslim Architects

New Cohort of Award Winning Muslim Architects

Oct 23, 2016 The winners of the Aga Khan Award for Architecture have been announced earlier this month in a ceremony in Al Ain, Abu Dhabi. His Excellency Awaidha Murshed Al Marar, Chairman of Department of Municipal Affairs and Transport of the United Arab Emirates...
Miami Heat Anthem Singer Takes a Knee

Miami Heat Anthem Singer Takes a Knee

By Latifah Muhammad—Oct 22, 2016 Denasia Lawrence turned her national anthem performance into a social statement that went viral. As the social worker stepped onto the court ahead of a game between the Mimi Heat and Philadelphia 76ers Friday (Oct. 21), she opened her...
Who Exactly Qualifies as a “Bad Hombre”?

Who Exactly Qualifies as a “Bad Hombre”?

By Domingo Martinez—Oct 21, 2016 During Wednesday’s debate, Donald Trump used the phrase “bad hombres.” That got our commentator Domingo Martinez thinking. Who exactly is a bad hombre? ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST: Donald Trump had a few memorable lines in...
Tolerance is for Cowards

Tolerance is for Cowards

By Thomas Gryta—Sep 29, 2016 When AT&T Inc.’s Chief Executive Randall Stephenson took the stage last week to talk to hundreds of employees, he didn’t give the usual corporate pep talk. Instead, the 56-year-old Oklahoma native talked, often in personal terms, about...
FBI: Plot to Bomb Mosque in Kansas Foiled

FBI: Plot to Bomb Mosque in Kansas Foiled

By Ali Younes—Oct 15, 2016 US federal authorities have announced the arrest of three men charged with attempting to set off a bomb in northwest Kansas. Tom Beall, acting US attorney, announced on Friday that the Kansas men were charged in a domestic terrorism plot to...

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