Harvard Rejects Trump Administration’s Demands, Defends Academic Freedom Amid Threats of Funding Cuts
The university refused to comply with set of demands from Trump administration that threatened the school’s $9 billion in federal funding.Harvard University has refused to comply with a sweeping set of demands from the Trump administration that threatened...
ACLU’s Sean Wilson Battles Mass Incarceration
During a Zoom panel sponsored by Ma’ruf Center, Sean Wilson introduces himself as the statewide organizer of the ACLU’s campaign for Smart Justice. He goes on to say, “My organizing started when I was held captive in the Wisconsin Department of...
12 Things You Might Not Know About Juneteenth
Stacy Conradt for Mental Floss Wikimedia Commons There's more than one Independence Day in the U.S. On June 19, 1865, General Gordon Granger rode into Galveston, Texas, and announced enslaved people were now free. Since then, June 19 has been celebrated as...
Minneapolis receives 18-ton delivery of fresh produce from Islamic charity
Sarah Motter for 13WIBW Pixabay Minneapolis has received an 18-ton delivery of fresh produce from the Zakat Foundation after George Floyd protests. The Zakat Foundation of America, a Muslim-run charity, has delivered a refrigerated trailer of fresh produce...
Art is a Form of Protest Along Milwaukee’s Holton Avenue
Joe Brusky via Facebook On a sunny Saturday in June, the mural on the south side of the building at the corner Holton and Locust in Milwaukee seems to glow. The late Breonna Taylor’s pretty face is surrounded by pink roses. Underneath her name are words...
Gareth Bryant On Being A Black Muslim Man In America
Zainab Iqbal for Bklyner Gareth Bryant Gareth Bryant has been on Earth for 38 years thus far. In these 38 years, he has experienced a lot. He’s dealt with racism and xenophobia. He lost himself and then found himself. He discovered faith. And he never let...
How Trump is using coronavirus to push his white nationalist election agenda
Sahar Aziz for Islamophobia Research & Documentation Project Getty Trump’s latest immigrant ban has little to do with a collapsing labour market during a global pandemic, and everything to do with election year politics. Rather than focus on improving...
Making Change Happen: Activists Speak Out
Last Friday evening, Ma’ruf Milwaukee held the second panel discussion of its series Silence is Violence/Black Lives Matter, inspired by the killing of George Floyd in police custody and the weeks of protests that followed in Milwaukee and around the...
IRC Book Review: Suqar
Elise Bellin, Librarian of the Islamic Resource Center, wrote this book review as part of an ongoing series that focuses on a range of books within the IRC collection as a service to the community. Suqar Suqar by Greg & Lucy Malouf (2018) ISBN:...
How Muslims Are Mourning Without Proper Death Care Rituals
Iman Mohamed for Yes Magazine Yes Magazine In April, my family received news that my mother’s friend passed away from COVID-19. We were overcome with grief—especially because we were still grieving another recent death. Our last memory of her is watching...
