The family of Malcolm X has filed a $100 million lawsuit against the FBI, CIA, and New York Police Department (NYPD), accusing them of involvement in his 1965 assassination. Civil rights attorney Ben Crump, representing the family, claims the agencies conspired to assassinate the activist. The lawsuit alleges that a corrupt relationship betwee...
NEW YORK – AFP Students in New York have condemned the police raid on Columbia University campus by police. “Columbia and the cops collaborated to brutalize my classmates in the dark for standing up for what is right,” Columbia University student Maryam Alwan said at a news conference alongside other students, a day after New...
New York City has reached a $17.5 million settlement in a class-action lawsuit filed by two Muslim women. It was against the police policy of removing hijabs during arrest photos. Although the city denies wrongdoing, the New York Police Department has altered its policy. It no longer mandates removing head coverings during arrests. The sett...
WASHINGTON (AA) – An unidentified person threw a copy of the Quran to the ground and kicked it outside the Turkish House in New York on Friday morning. The Quran was desecrated at 10:46 a.m. local time (1446 GMT), Anadolu has learned. Turkish House security personnel immediately intervened and removed the person from the premises, […]
