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Constitution Day- Celebrating The Fourteenth Amendment

“Do you speak a lot?” asked Shireen (not the students real name), my apprehensive fourteen-year-old client while I worked at CAIR-Los Angeles as the Civil Rights Department Manager. Shireen had experienced an incident at her high school where a boy had allegedly pulled her headscarf, telling her “we don’t want terrorists at our school.” HavingContinue reading “Constitution Day- Celebrating The Fourteenth Amendment”

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2+2=5

I was incredibly moved by this short piece. I don’t know too much about the director and I am not sure if the film speaks beyond Iran. However, I don’t think that it is at all limited to a geographic area. I want to be careful about constructing something into this video that it wasn’tContinue reading “2+2=5”

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Mangoes: A Tribute to a Tradition of Asian Solidarity

Kristie Yung pays tribute to one of the pioneers of music in South Asia, the legendary Alamgir by singing a song in Urdu. She is a young acoustic-soul singer/songwriter that has effortlessly brings together music and lyrics even when its in a language she doesn’t speak. Alamgir on the other hand, is an amazing musician from the GoldenContinue reading “Mangoes: A Tribute to a Tradition of Asian Solidarity”