Ethnicities

By Clarence Lusane ( Tomdispatch.com ) – Donald Trump was the worst president for Black people in the modern era, if not the nation’s history. Given a life of unremitting racial animus, under no circumstances should he receive a single vote from the Black community or other communities of color. After all, he’s never moderated […]

Arab Americans

Palestinian-Americans Help Make the US Great: A Reply to Giuliani at the Trumpie Madison Square Garden Hatefest

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Great Trump Three Hours of Hate at Madison Square Garden on Sunday included a fatally unfunny comedian calling Puerto Ricans garbage and other racist swill directed at African-Americans, Hispanics and other groups. Trump alleged that a violent Venezuelan prison gang has taken over Times Square, which bears the same […]

Arab Americans

How Campus Protests exposed the Flaws in Higher Education diversity Initiatives

Nancy A Khalil

( Middle East Eye ) – As the school year begins, universities across the United States are confronting their policies on free speech, protest and freedom of assembly. Some are revising these policies to include swift consequences for those who dare to follow what have been student protest norms for decades. Similar threats loom for […]

Arab Americans

Rupture and Repair: A report by the Stanford Muslim, Arab, and Palestinian Communities Committee

contributors

May 2024 Rupture and Repair is published in pdf format here. Below I excerpt a couple of pages in html with the permission of the authors. This report details a substantial rupture of trust between students, staff, and faculty in the Muslim, Arab, and Palestinian (MAP) communities and Stanford in academic year 2023-24. These communities […]

African-Americans

Trumpism, Race and Authoritarianism: The Storm is Coming

Tomdispatch

By Clarence Lusane ( Tomdispatch.com ) – Consider Donald Trump to be in a racial bind when it comes to election 2024. After all, he needs Black voters to at least defect from Joe Biden in swing states, if not actually vote for him. Yet, more than ever, he also needs his white nationalist base […]

Arab Americans

Invisible No More: The Gov’t could Soon include Americans of Middle East and N. African Origin in its Data

Michigan Advance

By Simon Marshall-Shah | ( Michigan Advance ) – Without equitable data systems, governmental policies will always come up short of fairly representing all of the people they are intended to serve. It is with that in mind that we at the Michigan League for Public Policy and many of our partners have long advocated […]

Arab Americans

More than 100,000 Michigan voters pick ‘uncommitted’ over Biden − does that Matter for November?

The Conversation

By Michael Traugott, University of Michigan | – Joe Biden won the 2024 Michigan Democratic primary, but “uncommitted” ran a spirited campaign. More than 100,000 Michiganders voted “uncommitted” in Tuesday’s Democratic primary, 13% of the Democratic electorate. Listen to Michigan organized the uncommitted campaign in Michigan, promoting it as a way to express dissatisfaction with […]

Arab Americans

Michigan Rebukes Biden on Gaza Genocide with Arab and Muslim American “Uncommitted” Vote

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Michigan rebuked President Joe Biden on Tuesday for his unstinting support of the extremist Israeli government’s total war against Gaza. A movement for voting “uncommitted” in the Democratic primary in that state has been led by Arab American and Muslim American activists in Wayne County and the city of Dearborn. […]

Arab Americans

A Brief History of Dearborn, Michigan – The First Arab-American Majority City in the US

The Conversation

By Sally Howell, University of Michigan-Dearborn; and Amny Shuraydi, University of Michigan-Dearborn | – (The Conversation) – Dearborn, Michigan, is a center of Arab American cultural, economic, and political life. It’s home to several of the country’s oldest and most influential mosques, the Arab American National Museum, dozens of now-iconic Arab bakeries and restaurants, and […]