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Muslim-Americans
The black Muslim female fashion trailblazers who came before model Halima Aden

The black Muslim female fashion trailblazers who came before model Halima Aden

The Conversation

The fashion shows were a means of highlighting the creative ways Nation of Islam women could dress modestly and maintain the unique aesthetic

Constitution
Before Trump invoked Executive Privilege he Should have Remembered Nixon

Before Trump invoked Executive Privilege he Should have Remembered Nixon

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Nixon’s own Justice Department could not find a single example in history of anyone invoking executive privilege in an impeachment inquiry

Mass Extinction
We are about to drive 1 million species to extinction w/out a Revolution in our relationship with Nature

We are about to drive 1 million species to extinction w/out a Revolution in our relationship with Nature

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The report reveals the loss of biodiversity and ecosystem function is much less on lands managed by Indigenous peoples and local communities

Israel/ Palestine
Don't Even Bother:  Why Trump's Israel-Palestine "Deal" is Dead on Arrival

Don’t Even Bother: Why Trump’s Israel-Palestine “Deal” is Dead on Arrival

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By Dov Waxman | – Dead on arrival. That’s what almost every expert predicts will be the fate of the Trump administration’s long-awaited peace plan to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. As the author of the new book, “The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: What Everyone Needs to Know,” I share this view. Low expectations Developed in secrecy for […]

Rape
White Nationalism is a Lost Cause in an Increasingly Rainbow America

White Nationalism is a Lost Cause in an Increasingly Rainbow America

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The U.S. will never be a white country again

Donald Trump
Why did the Trump Admin. Obstruct UN Resolution against War Rape that Amal Clooney Supported?

Why did the Trump Admin. Obstruct UN Resolution against War Rape that Amal Clooney Supported?

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Trump is a vulgar libertine with overwhelming support from evangelicals

Bill of Rights
Why the Assange indictment is a Threat to the US First Amendment

Why the Assange indictment is a Threat to the US First Amendment

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The American government has traditionally abstained from charging publishers of classified information for the crime of publication

Authoritarianism
Are we Trapped in Orwell's '1984'?

Are we Trapped in Orwell’s ‘1984’?

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It teaches us that power and tyranny are made possible through the use of words and how they are mediated

Sudan
Sudan: How Protestors Carved out a Space to Challenge Dictatorship

Sudan: How Protestors Carved out a Space to Challenge Dictatorship

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Hundreds of thousands of people marched to the Sudanese Army’s headquarters in the Ministry of Defence’s complex

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