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In the opening moments of the Jan. 6 Committee hearings, Chairman Bennie Thompson drew a line across history, connecting the Lost Cause to the Big Lie.

"I'm from a part of the country where people justify the actions of slavery, the Ku Klux Klan and lynching," Thompson began.

"I'm reminded of that dark history as I hear voices today try and justify the actions of the insurrectionists on Jan. 6, 2021."

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  AL- UMMAH STATEMENT ON THE KILLINGS OF MUSLIMS IN ALBUQUERQUE

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A Hall of Famer who led the Celtics to 11 championships, he was “the single most devastating force in the history of the game,” his coach Red Auerbach said.

Even before the opening tipoff at Boston…

Gallivant Travels…

Denzel Washington, Simone Biles, Megan Rapinoe and former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.)…

Exactly 835 years ago, on the 4th of July in 1187 CE, Ṣālaḥ al-Dīn al-Ayyūbī freed Masjid al-Aqṣa from the hands of the

crusaders. This picture (taken now!) is the original miḥrāb and calligraphy commissioned by him, and commemorates the liberation. May Allah free it again!

Edit: The Battle of Ḥattin which paved the way to freeing Aqsa took place on July 4th; the city itself was liberated a few months…

He who could address this audience without a quailing sensation, has stronger nerves than I have. I do not remember

Occasion: Meeting sponsored by the Rochester Ladies’ Anti-Slavery Society, Rochester Hall, Rochester, N.Y. To illustrate the full shame of slavery, Douglass delivered a speech that took aim at the pieties of the nation -- the cherished memories of its revolution, its principles of liberty, and its moral and religious foundation. The Fourth of…

Ahmed Muhammad continues to level up.

The Oakland teen who went viral after launching a science education business for kids has officially closed out his first year at Stanford with a 4.05 GPA.

Previously, Muhammad touched the world when he became the first Black…