Being only seven years old when a horrific terrorist attack wrecks your country is traumatizing enough. Now imagine, at seven years old, being blamed for that attack. As my friends and classmates grew up, they would celebrate milestones and achievements like their first piercing, their first date, their first kiss, and their first straight-A semester. For Muslim kids, those moments were overshadowed by our first time being labeled a terrorist, or the first time we were asked by our teacher to “explain Islam and tell the class why Muslims hate America.” Among Muslim Americans, these moments are so common that they feel clicheed—and yet, I still remember them with the same burning trauma I felt as a child.
There’s a corrosive idea in politics that young candidates should “wait their turn.” Change happens incrementally, the theory holds—and we ought to defer to older issues, older tactics, older leaders, before even thinking about raising our own hands.
Local and national progressive political groups are backing Durham County Commissioner Nida Allam’s congressional run for the 6th District, narrowing the lanes in a crowded field. On Friday, Working Families Party, Durham for All, and the Carolina Federation endorsed Allam’s…
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…
In an election month filled with delayed results, frivolous lawsuits, a recount, and baseless claims of voter fraud, the race for the Durham County Board of Commissioners proved decidedly uncontentious. That’s because the outcome was all but sealed in the…
