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IN THIS ISSUE
- Featured Issue: A Week of Verdicts
- Upcoming: MPAC's Free Virtual Convention
- Afghan Virtual Summit - Empowering Afghans: Reframing the Narrative and Providing Support
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A Week of Verdicts
By: Umar Hakim-Dey, Katrina Hasan Hamilton, Imam Abu Qadir Al-Amin, MPAC’s African American Muslim Insight Council
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Jummah Mubarak,
As American Muslims, our job is to act on faith and resist the urge of racism and discrimination for “All mankind is from Adam and Eve... Do not therefore do injustice to yourselves. Remember one day you will meet ALLAH and answer your deeds.
Happy Thanksgiving is truly in order thanks to Prosecutor Linda Dunikowski and her team, who sought justice on behalf of their deceased client, Mr. Ahmaud Arbery, murdered on February 23, 2020, four months before the late George Floyd. Many of us truly breathed a sigh of relief on Wednesday, November 24, 2021 as we watched Judge Walmsley read the majority guilty counts for all three men who murdered Ahmaud Arbery. This senseless modern-day lynching highlighted the injustices of our nation, that impact us all.
After writhing from Kyle Rittenhouse’s recent acquittal for murdering two White young men and injuring a third, the humanistic jury that rendered the Arbery verdict reminded us in the words of Dr. King, while “the arc of the moral universe is long...it [does at times] bends toward justice.”
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From the comfort of your home (or a friend’s) join us as we explore our contributions, and progress as Americans, as Muslims, as an organization, and as a vibrant and dynamic American Muslim community.
Our lineup of speakers includes key figures in entertainment, the government, and civil society. From Actors and Film Executives, to Members of Congress and beyond, all of our speakers are actively working to improve perceptions and policies that impact our community. We'll be sharing some exciting updates on our work this past year and for our road ahead.
We are honored to announce our keynote speaker, Jacob Blake, Sr. (American Muslim activist) and father of Jacob Blake who's tragic shooting in Kenosha Wisconsin, has sparked a powder-keg of civil unrest. Mr. Blake's story is a testament to the universal and shared Islamic and American values of justice, equity, human dignity, patience, and unity. It is the story of an inflection point in America's history, an inflection in our history— It is The Story of US.
Register today and tune in Sunday, December 5th at 5PM PT.
Let's write our next chapter, together.
Reserve your free ticket →
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MPAC and the Afghan-American Foundation are pleased to host a 4 day virtual summit to discuss key issues relating to the crisis in Afghanistan and its impact in the United States. Empowering Afghans: Reframing the Narrative and Providing Support is a summit designed to elevate leading Afghan and Afghan-American voices. We will identify tangible solutions and highlight organizations doing critical response work in the United States and Afghanistan.
Panels (2pm-3:15pm ET):
- Dec 6: A Moment to Act: the Humanitarian Crisis in Afghanistan
- Dec. 7: Resettlement Challenges & Opportunities: Afghan American Perspectives
- Dec. 8: Foreign Policy and Domestic Pragmatism: The Road Ahead
- Dec. 9: Context, Care and Strategic Collaboration: The Challenges and Opportunities around Building Afghan and Afghan-American Narratives
Register→
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GOOD TO KNOW
- 3 men charged in Ahmaud Arbery’s death convicted of murder
- Malcolm X's daughter found dead in Brooklyn, officials say
- Charlottesville extremists lose in Court, but replacement theory lives on
- Weekly jobless claims post stunning decline to 199,000, the lowest level since 1969
- A statue of Thomas Jefferson is removed from New York City Hall after 187 years
- Thousands of people have raised more than $900K for a man who served 43 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit
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- THIS WEEK IN HISTORY -
Nov 21, 1818 - Russia's Tsar Alexander I petitions for a Jewish state in Palestine; Nov 21, 1970 - General Hafez al-Assad becomes Prime Minister of Syria following military coup; Nov 22, 1930 - Elijah Muhammad forms Nation of Islam in Detroit; Nov 22, 1943 - France officially recognizes the independence of Lebanon, releasing the imprisoned Lebanese government; Nov 24, 2019 - Data leaked from Chinese high-security Muslim Uighur security camps, housing 1 million people, show systematic brainwashing in western Xinjiang region; Nov 27, 1095 - Pope Urban II preaches the west to wrestle control of the Holy land the Seljuk Turks at the Council of Clermont, triggering the First Crusade; Nov 27, 835 - Muhammad at-Taqi, Muslim Shia Imam, dies at 24; Nov 27, 1976 - Tyrone Sutton, American pop and R&B singer (Perfect Gentlemen) and Muslim chaplain, born in Massachusetts.
Nov 21, 1963 - President John F. Kennedy flies to Texas (assassinated the next day); Nov 21, 1989 - Law banning smoking on most domestic flights signed by US President George H. W. Bush; Nov 22, 1842 - Mount St Helens in Washington erupts; Nov 22, 1959 - American Football League (AFL) conducts its first draft in Minneapolis with the 8 clubs selecting their playing rosters for the inaugural 1960 season; Nov 23, 1783 - Annapolis, Maryland, becomes US capital (until June 1784); Nov 23, 1848 - Female Medical Educational Society forms in Boston. Nov 24, 1859 - English naturalist Charles Darwin publishes "On the Origin of Species" radically changing the view of evolution and laying the foundation for evolutionary biology; Nov 24, 1869 - American Woman's Suffrage Association forms (Cleveland); Nov 25, 1864 - Confederate plot to burn New York city fails; Nov 25, 1920 - First Thanksgiving Parade (Philadelphia); Nov 26, 1789 - First national Thanksgiving in America; Nov 26, 1791 - First US cabinet meeting, held at George Washington's home in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Secretary of State Thomas Jefferson, Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton, Secretary of War Henry Knox, and Attorney General Edmund Randolph attend; Nov 27, 1870 - The New York Times dubs baseball "The National Game"; Nov 27, 1901 - U.S. Army War College is established in Washington, D.C.
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