via American RadioWorks: In the New Deal era, educator and activist Mary McLeod Bethune was called the “First Lady of the Struggle” for her influence on the Roosevelt administration on civil rights issues. On the eve of America’s entrance into World War II, she joined a panel discussion on NBC radio’s weekly public affairs broadcast… Read More Flashback: Mary McLeod Bethune on What American Democracy Means to Her
In their campaigns for the presidency, both Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders have held up stability as their preeminent goal for the Middle East and argued against efforts that would undermine autocracy in the region, even to the point of opposing the replacement of the Assad regime, which has committed mass slaughter and countless other… Read More Propping Up Autocracy Will Bring Neither Justice Nor Stability to the Middle East
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In a remarkable communiqué, the Assembly of the Catholic Ordinaries of the Holy Land has put Christian persecution in the Middle East in the wake of the Arab Spring in the proper perspective. The persecution of Christians in the region is real and gravely serious, but it does not exist in isolation. Other groups are… Read More A Prophetic Rejection of Sectarianism and Defense of Human Rights in the Middle East
Laila Neyazi, on voting in today’s historic elections in Afghanistan: “I’m not afraid of Taliban threats, we will die one day anyway. I want my vote to be a slap in the face of the Taliban.”
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