ICE, or the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, has been performing many injustices against immigrant families coming in through the border. They have been separating children from their parents, keeping children in cages, denying due process to undocumented immigrants and asylum seekers, and keeping unsanitary conditions in detainment areas...

With the current African American civil rights movement, police reform is starting to become a realistic outcome to all of the turmoil seen between law enforcement and people of color, especially black people. As protests and conversations continue, many tend to quote the late Malcolm X for the more forceful approach that this new wave of...

Intersectionality is the idea that people have complex and overlapping identities like race, age, and sexuality.

Across the nation, discrimination against the LGBTQ+ community has been immense, causing them to live in fear of their identity. Many have been fired from jobs, denied healthcare, and now even denied the ability to adopt a child due to a newly signed executive order. Because of this, many LGBTQ people are scared to express themselves and make...

Born on August 24, 1945, Marsha P Johnson (born Malcolm Michaels Jr) was a prominent LGBTQ+ activist, as well as a strong advocate for transgender and transvestite rights. Growing up, she enjoyed cross-dressing, but was repeatedly reprimanded and received heavy disapproval from her community and her family. After she finished high school, Johnson...

Due to the three-year war with Saudi-Arabia and the catastrophe caused by the Houthi rebels, Yemen is facing the world's worst humanitarian crisis. Currently the poorest country in the region, children are starved and ill, having to eat even leaves to survive. Along with all this, COVID-19 is making a huge impact in turning their conditions for the...

"Your name sounds Mexican. Do you speak Mexican?"

There is a divide in Christianity.

"Work hard, and you will be happy."

Such seemingly insignificant issues can seem insurmountable.

All throughout the country, the debate on Confederate statues is coming to a close as protesters and activists call for a removal, or forcing down these monuments. The argument for keeping these statues is that it educates people on the history of the US, and shows where we came from.

The unrelentless hatred pointed against LGBTQIA+ just because of their differences baffles me.

Recently, in Miami, Florida, a Muslim woman was robbed of her 1st amendment to freedom of religion and to the freedom of expression. She was simply a medical aid tending to injured protestors and she was detained for just doing what any caring human being would. They accused her of violence and resistance against the cops, but who wouldn't resist...

Even as the social unrest continues to build in our own country, it is important to know and be educated on things going on outside of our US bubble.

North American culture raises white people in an environment where they are safely cushioned from racial oppression. Not only does their skin color protect them from the likelihood of being shot and killed by the police, but it also prevents them from being actively discriminated against. White authorities favor whites, whether in politics or the...

Growing up, I was always proud to be Muslim. Totally oblivious to the cruel reality of the world, I was proud to say that I was Muslim. I slowly began to realize that others view us as different just because my mom wore a hijab, just because I couldn't wear the trendy skirts and dresses, and just because I didn't...