A CAIR-Philadelphia Webinar hosted by Jacob Bender (CAIR-Philadelphia Executive Director) Featuring: Eman Abuawada (Students for Justice in Palestine) and
Sonya Meyerson-Knox (Jewish Voice for Peace Media Program Manager).
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2020 Delaware Primaries FAQ | #MyMuslimVote
Primary elections in Delaware are on Tuesday, July 7th. COVID-19 makes this election unique and there a number of new regulations voters should watch out for. For example, every voter in DE received a mail-in-ballot and they are encouraged to use this option. See below. In this guide, we provide answers to some frequently asked questions.
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Webinar on Hip-Hop and Black Culture
Hip-Hop is ubiquitous; there are places without running water and electricity that hip-hop has touched. The culture and its expressions have begun the dominant influence on popular youth culture over the span of the past four and a half decades. That is a significant statement considering the culture emerged from a back to school party hosted by two teenagers in the cramped recreation room of their housing project forty-seven years ago.
Continue readingCAIR-Philadelphia Condemns Trump’s Racist Attack on Muslim Congresswoman, Use of Anti-Asian ‘Kung Flu’ Term, and Defense of Confederate Traitors
The Philadelphia Chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the nation’s largest American Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, strongly condemned President Trump’s racist attack this past Saturday on Muslim Congresswoman Ilhan Omar (D-MN), during his first major campaign rally since the outbreak of COVID-19.
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Director’s Desk: Many Juneteenths
Every June 19th was a special day for my family. In the first decades of the 20th century, fleeing the anti-Jewish violence in Eastern Europe, my grandparents and parents emigrated to America seeking a new life in a land where “all men are created equal.”
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