New Delhi, India (AFP): Scores of activists and campaigners held a candlelight vigil on Friday for Jyoti Singh, the young woman who was brutally gang-raped and murdered on a New Delhi bus 10 years ago. The horrific crime appalled India and the world and highlighted the scourge of sexual crimes against women. The crowd at […]
The past quarter century witnessed an unprecedented decline in child poverty rates in the United States. Today, roughly 1 in 10 children live in families whose economic resources are below the poverty line — a 59% drop over the last 26 years. In 1993, the numbers were more than one in four children. The magnitude […]
Dutch police on Sunday prevented a planned demonstration of the far-right Islamophobic group Pegida, which sought to burn a copy of the Quran at The Hague. This was a day after police also arrested a leader of the group and ended its planned Quran burning rally in the city Rotterdam before it started. A small […]
The Council on American-Islamic Relations welcomed a hate crime investigation into anti-Asian slurs spray-painted onto a San Leandro, California home last weekend. On Saturday, police responded to a report of vandalism at 9 p.m. “A racial epithet within an anti-Asian message” was scrawled on a realtor sign marketing the property for sale. On ...
On June 19, 1865, Union Army Maj. Gen. Gordon Granger arrived in Galveston, Texas two months after the Civil War ended. This was to proclaim more than 250,000 enslaved people in Texas were free. President Abraham Lincoln had freed all enslaved people two and a half years earlier, with the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation. […]...
On Wednesday, U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres called for concerted and quick action to combat a surge in global food insecurity. The number of severely food insecure people had doubled in two years from 135 million pre-pandemic to 276 million, he said during a U.N. meeting on global hunger. More than half a million people are […...
Preliminary data show a double-digit spike in hate crimes last year, and a continued rise into 2022. Bias-motivated incidents in 37 major U.S. cities increased by nearly 39% on average. The 10 largest metropolitan areas reported a record 54.5% increase. Incidents targeting Asian and Jewish Americans accounted for the bulk of cases. The analy...
Thousands of displaced Syrians living in tents in the country’s northwest province of Idlib are suffering from extreme poverty. Many displaced Syrians are sheltering in the Kafar Houm Camp and struggling to survive during Ramadan. Abu Omar, who is unemployed, said his family cannot afford to buy basic living and food supplies, such as oil [&he...
A Jewish-owned bakery in southwest Houston is offering support to the city’s Muslim community during the month of Ramadan. Sara Brook, founder of Dessert Gallery Bakery & Café, is offering hand-decorated Ramadan butter cookies to Muslims breaking their fast. The inspiration came from her involvement with a group called The Sisterhood of S...
Care packages were distributed at Masjid Ar-Rahama for the start of Ramadan, three months after a deadly fire killed 17 people. The Bronx, New York, community is still reeling from the tragedy at a nearby apartment complex. A number of the dead worshiped at Masjid Ar-Rahama. Husainou Waggeh, who serves on the mosque’s executive board, [&hellip...
