Updates

Rabia Osman: “Reflecting on my summer with CLDP”

September 25, 2019
This summer I had the extraordinary opportunity to serve as a Tech & Diversity Fellow in the DC Office of Congresswoman Yvette Clarke. From planning panels to passing bills in Congress, I would not have received this opportunity if I was not a part of MPAC’s Congressional Leadership and Development Program (CLDP).

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Faith-Based Community Safety and Security Symposium

September 25, 2019
With hate crimes at houses of worship hitting record levels, we joined a non-partisan task force advising the Department of Homeland Security and other law enforcement agencies on how best to protect American Muslim communities and other religious groups against the threat of white supremacist violence.

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Elevating Black Muslim Narratives at the Writers Guild

September 6, 2019
"People are hungry for a different type of story, a different narrative." Our Hollywood Bureau co-hosted a panel with MuslimARC on “Black Muslim Narratives in Entertainment” at the Writers Guild Foundation in Los Angeles that brought together Travina Springer, Nijla Mu'min, Qasim Basir, Aminah Bakeer Abdul-Jabbaar for a groundbreaking conversation moderated by Margari Hill.

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Presidential candidates bring 7,000 attendees to their feet

September 4, 2019
As a public policy organization, we engage with government officials to ensure equal rights and representation for American Muslims. In that role, we co-organized the first Presidential Candidates Forum with our partner Emgage USA at ISNACON in Houston that brought Senator Bernie Sanders and Julián Castro in front of 7,000 American Muslims. What followed inspired us all.

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How We're Tackling White Nationalist Violence

August 30, 2019
It's critical that we come together and say "we will not be divided:" to counter white supremacy and write a new history together of an America where everyone has life and liberty. Beyond just a topic of conversation, we are working to ensure that, as a nation, we are addressing what is now a global epidemic, affecting religious and racial minorities, and attacking it from a messaging and legal perspective.

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Our Ethnonationalism Panel with JStreet

August 10, 2019
“Whenever anyone says ‘we are better than them’ THAT is ethnonationalism. It is that kind of racism that we’re all dealing with." The rise of rampant and violent nationalism deserves our focus and collective efforts to resolve. Nationalism isn’t just an American problem, it’s a world-wide phenomenon.

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Countering White Supremacy Forum with Rep. Adam Schiff

August 6, 2019
When we started planning a panel on countering white supremacy with Rep. Adam Schiff, we had no idea that the need for this conversation would be punctuated the way it was after a week of back to back mass shootings. Our panel on Monday, August 5th was exactly what we needed - an evening of hope, love, community and concrete actions that we can take together.

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Lessons in Empathy from Father Greg Boyle

July 24, 2019
"A woman once told me that she was afraid of going to the margins because she wouldn't fit in there. I told her, ‘The minute it stops being about you, you won't be afraid.’” See the highlights from Homeboy Industries founder Father Greg Boyle’s “Battling our Biases” at the Islamic Center of Southern California.

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Resisting war, protecting Muslims, television festivals and more!

June 28, 2019
From pushing back against war-mongering, protecting Muslims and communities of faith, elevating American Muslim voices at television festivals, and more, see what we've been up to over the past month in this June's iMPACt Brief.

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Amplifying American Muslim voices at the ATX Television Festival

June 28, 2019
For the first time ever, Muslim voices were heard at the ATX Television Festival where MPAC’s Hollywood Bureau hosted a panel.

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