“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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Segregation and diversity, an imperfect union
In a post from a couple of days ago I reflected on the greater diversity we have in the United States and how our history with racial issues like slavery have brought about a slew of legislation derived from the 14th Amendment in order to ensure the equality and justice for all Americans is aContinue reading “Segregation and diversity, an imperfect union”