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TeleSur | – – Ultra-conservative Justice Clarence Thomas sided with four liberal justices in the 5-3 majority decision. Yesterday the Supreme Court struck down North Carolina’s congressional map. The court found the that the Republican legislature was unconstitutional when it used race to draw the district lines, which reduced the voting power of minorities in […]

African-Americans

Even Conservative SCOTUS can’t Stomach N Carolina Voter Suppression

Juan Cole

by Andrea Germanos, staff writer | Commondreams.org | – – North Carolina’s Voter ID Law Meets ‘Its Much-Deserved Demise’ Decision by U.S. Supreme Court not to review appeals court decision on 2013 law affords ‘a huge victory against sham voter ID laws’ The Supreme Court’s decision today, said Dale Ho, director of the ACLU’s Voting […]

Arab Americans

How Middle Eastern Immigrants Boost US Competitiveness

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Sami Mahroum | ( Project Syndicate) | – – DUBAI – In his 1961 science fiction novel Stranger in a Strange Land, Robert A. Heinlein chose a Muslim linguist, “Dr. Mahmoud,” to help the book’s Martian-raised protagonist make the transition to life in the United States. Stranger may be fiction, but Heinlein’s selection of a […]

Arab Americans

To understand Muslim ban 2.0, think of Trump as a Crime Boss

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By Amir Ahmadi Arian | ( OpenDemocracy.net ) | – – Donald Trump is not an aberration. He is the extreme manifestation of an existing foreign policy doctrine – the ‘mafia principle’ – and he is determined to release the whole potential of its violent core. U.S. President Donald Trump. Picture by Pool/ABACA/ABACA/PA Images. All […]

African-Americans

Dear Rep. King: Our Civilization isn’t White and American Babies aren’t Other

Juan Cole

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Rep Steve King of Iowa (whose constituents should be ashamed to show their faces in public went full-on racist again, supporting hate-speech master Geert Wilders in his quixotic quest to reverse globalization and ban Muslims from Europe. King lauded Wilders’ supposed wisdom and added “we can’t […]

Ethnicities

Texas GOP tried Gerrymander away Latino, Austin Votes: Fed. Court

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TeleSur | – – “Republicans in Texas have ensured that the dark days of discrimination in Texas continue to loom.” Texas lawmakers drew up three U.S. congressional districts to undermine the influence of Latino voters, a divided panel of three federal judges ruled, in the latest development in a years-long battle over gerrymandering. In the […]

Arab Americans

Middle East Studies Assn., joins Md. Suit to block Trump Muslim Ban

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Press Release FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE March 10, 2017 Groups Challenge Revised Muslim Ban BALTIMORE —- Civil rights and refugee groups today asked a federal court in Maryland to block the Trump administration’s revised executive order, arguing that it would cause irreparable harm for their plaintiffs. The order, which still maintains the suspension of refugee resettlement […]

African-Americans

It’s Racism, Stupid. America’s Persistent Racial Wealth Divide

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By Josh Hoxie | ( Inequality.org ) | – – A new study shows the legacy of racism far outweighs individual financial decisions in driving the growing gap between black and white families. No myth around around our staggering racial wealth divide may be more entrenched than the notion that black and brown people have […]

African-Americans

Would Trump let Oscar Winner Mahershala Ali back into the Country?

Juan Cole

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Mahershala Ali, 43, last night won an Oscar for best supporting actor, in Moonlight . The film treats themes of sexual repression, gayness, and the plague of drug dealing and addiction. Moonlight, of course, also won Best Picture, after a historic error in which the winner […]