On Wednesday, June 19, 2019, Montgomery County Public Schools (MCPS) held a workshop for 30 educators on how to teach American Hate: Survivors Speak Out by Arjurn Singh Sethi, a human rights lawyer and law professor at Georgetown and Vanderbilt Universities.
Read More“The mainstream news media often covers the perpetrators of hate crimes, but seldom do we hear the voices of survivors,” Arjun Sethi explained to the close to 20 educators gathered for a workshop on his book, American Hate: Survivors Speak Out (The New Press, 2018).
Read MoreTeaching for Change’s Alison Kysia led a discussion titled “The Story of Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf.”
Read MoreWe are in the final stages of completing the “Islamophobia: A People’s History Teaching Guide,” seven lessons that help us rethink what we know about the history of Muslims in the U.S., including the fact that Islamophobia is rooted in a history of racism.
Read MoreAlison Kysia, project director of “Islamophobia: A people’s history teaching guide,” was invited to present at Morgan State University’s Faculty Institute in Baltimore, MD on August 9, 2018.
Read MoreWe are deeply disappointed in the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to uphold the Muslim Ban. It is the consequence of years of dehumanization of Muslims by the Islamophobia Industry and war profiteers since 9/11. We add our voice to the movement to overturn this disastrous and dangerous decision.
Read MoreIn late June, 22-year-old Suhaiymah Manzoor-Khan — a third-generation Pakistani living in the United Kingdom — stood on stage at the Last Word Festival in Leeds and delivered her most recent ode: “This will not be a Muslims are like us poem/I refuse to be respectable,” she began.
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