High-quality public education, affordable housing, reproductive justice and a safe, livable planet: those are just some of the tenets of Durham County Commissioner Nida Allam’s platform as she now takes on Congress. Allam is running to represent North Carolina’s 6th Congressional District in the U.S. House of Representatives. As the...
Nida Allam Hopes Her Run for U.S. Congress Will Inspire the Muslim Community
DURHAM, N.C. — Durham County Commissioner Nida Allam is one of several candidates running for U.S. Congress. Longtime Congressman David Price, who has represented the Triangle for decades, will retire at the end of his current term. Price’s departure leaves the field wide open to political newcomers like Allam, who...
Nida Allam Announces Campaign For U.S. House Of Representatives
Last week, Durham County Commissioner Nida Allam announced that she plans to run for North Carolina’s 6th Congressional District as a Democrat in 2022. Allam is seeking to replace longtime U.S. Rep. David Price, D-N.C., who recently announced he won't seek reelection. Allam was elected to the Durham County Board...
Nida Allam, North Carolina’s First Muslim Woman Elected, Sets Her Eyes On Congress
Nida Allam made headlines in March 2020 when she became the first Muslim woman to win elected office in North Carolina. Now, the 27-year-old Democrat and member of the Durham County Board of Commissioners has set her eyes on Washington, D.C., announcing Monday that she will run for Congress. “I...
Durham County Commissioner Nida Allam Is Running For Congress
Durham County Commissioner Nida Allam is running for Congress. Allam made history in March 2020 when she became the first Muslim American woman to be elected to office in North Carolina. She was one of five women to win the party's primary for the Durham County Board of Commissioners' five...
Durham County Commissioner Nida Allam is Running For Congress
On a sunny Monday afternoon, Durham County Commissioner Nida Allam, formally announced that she is running for the newly drawn U.S. Congressional seat that covers a district held for decades by retiring Rep. David Price. “I think it’s high time for North Carolina to have a fighter,” Allam told the INDY...
Durham’s Nida Allam Running For Congress In Newly Drawn NC District
The first Muslim woman to win elected office in North Carolina is now seeking higher office: U.S. Congress. Nida Allam, a Durham County commissioner, is announcing her run for the seat currently held by longtime Rep. David Price, a Chapel Hill Democrat who is retiring at the end of his...
‘I’m Not Broken.’ Durham County Commissioner Nida Allam Shares Her Fertility Struggle
Sitting in an exam room at the Duke Fertility Center, Nida Allam decided she wanted to share on social media something that only she and her immediate family members knew: She’d had a miscarriage. It was August 9, and by that time, a little over a month had passed. Being...
20 Years After Sept. 11, NC’s First Muslim Woman Official Still Sees Its Effects
Parents want to protect their children. Nida Allam’s parents did. Allam, a Durham County Commissioner and the first Muslim woman to hold elected office in North Carolina, was in third grade when the World Trade Center was attacked by Islamic extremists. Her parents tried to insulate their daughters from the...
Shining a Spotlight on 7 Newly Elected Women Politicians You Should Know About
As it often goes, much of our political attention in 2020 was laser-focused on the presidential race, so much so that we haven't adequately celebrated the history-making strides women politicians made on the local and national level during the pivotal election year. In fact, a record number of women (144,...