It has been four years since my PBS To The Contrary debut, which also was my American TV debut, but I have to say that this week’s show was one of my favorites. We discussed the social safety net under Trump, the Black women NASA scientists of Hidden Figures and more, but my favorite part […]
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Although Trump ran on a largely anti-Muslim campaign and made a proposed “Muslim Ban” a key promise of his candidacy, few thought he would actually be able to pull it off given something called the US Constitution. But by tweaking the language of his latest executive order to stipulate nationality over religion, on Friday Trump
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It was great to return to the set of PBS’ To The Contrary and I am not exaggerating when I say things got heated. But what can we expect when one of my fellow panelists is the founder of Women For Trump? From President Trump’s all white male administration to the extent to which women
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*This post of mine is published on CNN.* Despite ethical concerns around Donald Trump appointing his son-in-law, Jared Kushner, as senior adviser in his administration, both Kushner and his wife, Ivanka Trump, have stepped down from their respective businesses, sending a clear signal they are getting ready to enter the crucial roles they will have
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Happy New Year, Dear Readers! It is the first day of 2017 and I am feeling hopeful-or at least forcing myself to. 2016 was a tough year as a Bangladeshi-American-Muslim-Feminist. First and foremost, we saw a nasty and largely Islamaphobic political campaign as America went to the polls to elect our next president. Hearing slanderous and
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*This post of mine is also published on CNN.* Amnesty describes it as “collective punishment.” A senior UN official suggested the goal appears to be “ethnic cleansing.” Regardless of how it is described, it is clear the violence unleashed by Myanmar against its minority Rohingya Muslim population has been devastating. John McKissick, with the Office
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Accepting the reality that Hillary Clinton will not be the first female president of the United States has been difficult, to say the least. Not only did something in me die with her concession, but having to accept Donal Trump as the country’s president-elect is taking some getting used to. But facts are facts and
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*This post of mine is also published on Women in the World/ The New York Times.* Whether you’re voting for Hillary or Trump or neither, it is hard to argue that the one consistent theme that has plagued the 2016 presidential race has been toxic misogyny. From the Republican nominee’s bragging in a 2005 leaked
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*This post of mine is also published on Forbes.* Laura Thompson always knew she possessed the drive that meant she was destined for great things. During her sophomore year at Brown University, after Thompson’s mother unexpectedly passed away, she told her college that despite her personal tragedy, she would work hard to become one of their brightest future
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*This post of mine is also published on Forbes.* “Entrepreneurship isn’t for everyone, and not everyone is going to be an entrepreneur,” Gayle Tzemach Lemmon, the New York Times best-selling author, advocate, and senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, says. “But women who turn to business, turn to economics, because there are people depending on them,
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