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Muslim Ban: Japanese and Muslim Americans Join Forces

By Massoud Hayoun — 2017

Japanese Americans remember discrimination they endured during WWII and say they will defend Muslim Americans.

Read on www.aljazeera.com

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4 Ways ‘Strong Black Woman Syndrome’ Keeps Us Poor

The Strong Black Women Syndrome demands that Black women never buckle, never feel vulnerable and, most important, never, ever put their own needs above anyone else’s—not their children’s, not their community’s, not the people for whom they work—no matter how detrimental it is to their...

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Kara Stevens
2019
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The Meaning of Serena Williams

There is a belief among some African-Americans that to defeat racism, they have to work harder, be smarter, be better.

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Claudia Rankine
2015
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Five truths about the hijab that need to be told

In the West, many regard traditional Muslim dress like the hijab as a sign of oppression, with women forced to wear the garments by men. But it is not as simple as that: many women choose to wear the hijab as a sign of faith, feminism, or simply because they want to.

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Peter Hopkins
2021
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The Women’s March on Washington: Pink Pussyhats—Enantiodromia

Until the marches, “pussy” was treated like a four-letter dirty word. What followed, as women responded to the crass reference to them as a body part, became an enantiodromia—a derogatory and shameful word became transformed into its opposite.

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Jean Shinoda Bolen
2017
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Daisy Khan, the “Ground Zero Mosque”—and 700 Million Muslim Women

She explained how, after 9/11, she felt a special responsibility to speak up for the vast majority of Muslims who embrace democracy and human rights, and to address the vexed issues of violence, status of women, leadership, and democracy within Islam. - Jesse Larner

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Jesse Larner
2011
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