admin | May 14, 2021
To the Editor: Re Trumps Facebook Ban Upheld, Reviving Debate on Free Speech (front page, May 6): The Facebook Oversight Boards decision upholding the ban on former President Donald Trump has laid bare a fundamental problem with the social media network: It has utterly failed at reining in hate, extremism and disinformation.
admin | May 14, 2021
Pete Simi is an associate professor of sociology at Chapman University. Peter Levi is a rabbi and regional director for the Anti-Defamation League. Kim Carr is the mayor of Huntington Beach.
admin | May 14, 2021
The recent arrest of a Portland neo-Nazi on child pornography charges provided a stark reminder that New England is not immune to the expansion of white nationalist extremist groups in the United States. An expert on the National Socialist Club, or NSC-131, said the extremist group that recently established a presence in Maine represents a tiny offshoot in the wider world of white supremacist groups and might count only about two dozen members in New England.
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This story is a part of Hearst Television's series "Hate in the Homeland." Our National Investigative Unit is uncovering the battle against hateful acts in America. Stay with this station for more stories on the fight against Hate in the Homeland.The vast majority of law enforcement agencies are not reporting hate crimes to a key federal database, hampering efforts to contain a rise in hate incidents and leaving communities nationwide in the dark about the prevalence of hate in the homeland, a Hearst Television National Investigative Unit series has found
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SAN FRANCISCO, May 10, 2021 /PRNewswire/ --Leading Asian Americans to Unite for Change (LAAUNCH) today announced the findings of its inaugural STAATUS Index (Social Tracking of Asian Americans in the U.S.), a comprehensive assessment of Americans' attitudes toward Asian Americans, and one of the first such studies in 20 years. The survey reveals 8 out of 10 Asian Americans say they are discriminated against in the U.S. and 77% do not feel respected.
admin | May 14, 2021
Image:Leonardo Cendamo/Getty Attempts to cast Said as the consummate New York intellectual miss the point that his milieu was one of global, and specifically Palestinian, anticolonial struggle. Places of Mind: A Life of Edward Said Timothy Brennan On February 2, 1977, Palestinian poet Rashid Hussein died in his New York apartment. Hussein had been born forty-one years earlier in Musmus, a town not far from Nazareth.
admin | May 14, 2021
May is Jewish American Heritage Month, and the annual congressional tribute marking the month will honor Abe Foxman of Bergen County on Friday, May 21. The National Museum of American Jewish History will host the online tribute, which will feature a roster of politicians, office-holders, diplomats, and other leaders, both Jewish and non-Jewish
admin | May 14, 2021
Tuesday, May 11 (10-11 a.m.
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Abraham Joshua Heschel, far right, marches with civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. and others in Selma, Ala., in 1965, which is featured in Martin Doblmeiers 2021 documentary Spiritual Audacity: The Abraham Joshua Heschel Story.
admin | May 14, 2021
SPRINGTIME IN AMERICAMay 2021 opens with May Day, an observation of the historic struggles and achievements of workers and the labor movement.
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