*On The Daily Ittefaq Here.* One of my earliest memories of the highly toxic and dangerous metal, mercury, was with my older sister when we were kids in Bangladesh. We would break glass thermometers and play with the liquid mercury, fascinated by how it moved over our the tiny hands of a child. Our little minds […]
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As the massive backlash from the National Football League’s (NFL) biggest players and president Trump keep playing out, I went on Joy Reid’s MSNBC show, “AM Joy,” to share my thoughts. It is critical to remember that the right to protest is an American founding principle. By being so dismissive of this fact, and disrespectful
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Since August 25th, over 400,000 Rohingya people, a Muslim minority group ethnic to Myanmar, have literally been pouring into Bangladesh, causing a humanitarian crisis amongst one of the most persecuted groups in the world. And the number of people fleeing the recent violence and persecution are not going to stop anytime soon. I went on CNN
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My beautiful college town of Charlottesville, Virginia was lit on fire by white supremacists over the weekend, and before I could even absorb the news, I was on the news. While it is unbelievable to be that some Trump surrogates are still hitting the airwaves and justifying Trump’s actions, or lack thereof, in the aftermath
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*This article of mine is published on CNN.* I will forever remember the summer of 2017 as the summer I watched my sleepy, beautiful college town of Charlottesville burn across the world’s television screens as neo-Nazi groups descended, clashing with counter-protesters, leaving one dead and many injured. As I watched on television and online, part
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July wrapped up with another taping of PBS’ To The Contrary, and one of the most shocking things about this episode was that Anne Stone and I actually agreed on an issue: domestic violence. Washington State is starting to issue victims alerts when their abuser buys a gun, and with the gun control debate in
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So much of my writing and work focuses on elevating the voices of women and girls of color, so it was great to be on the other side of things when Miss Muslim interviewed me for their website. The platform is “where all of the patriarchy’s worst nightmares come to life,” and their mission is
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It was fantastic to be back on PBS’ To The Contrary for the first time since having my baby to talk about millennial parenting, sexual assault program “ProtectHer” and more. But things got heated fast when the panel took on Trump’s latest sexist and vile tweets. The president’s recent attacks on the media reached an
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The first time I appeared on MSNBC was last summer after the Holi Bakery terrorist attack in Bangladesh. But this month, I returned to the network as a guest on Joy Reid’s “AM Joy” show for the last two weekends in a row. Not only am I a huge fan of Joy Reid, I love
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*This article of mine is published on CNN.* Donald Trump’s first major trip overseas may be fraught with diplomatic land mines for the President, but the Trump administration can at least comfort itself with the clear hit that Melania Trump has been with the Saudi press. The fact that Melania is communicating with the media
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