Q&A: Rugiatu Conteh of CAIR Philadelphia on Media’s Response to Boston
Since the bombings in Boston last week and the subduing of the suspects responsible, there’s been a lot of speculation in the national media regarding the motives of Tamerlan Tsarnaev and his brother Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, both of whom are Muslims originally from the Chechnyan region of Russia. On Fox News, “liberal” commentator Bob Beckel suggested...
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Q&A: Michael Shelton’s ‘Family Pride,’ a New Book on LGBT Families
With today’s re-inauguration of the first president ever to endorse gay marriage, the cultural winds seem unmistakeable: America will continue along the path toward full equal rights for LGBT citizens. With that in mind, Michael Shelton, director of sexual minority treatment services at Equilibria Psychological Consultants in Philadelphia, wrote the new...
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New Book Highlights the Colorful Legacy of FDR Skatepark
By Caroline Newton For 15 years, skateboarders have called the area under the South Philly portion of the I-95 overpass their home. What began as a couple city-built pyramids has since morphed into a world-renowned, do-it-yourself skatepark known as FDR. Three skateboarders in particular are so taken by FDR Skatepark that they decided to produce a book documenting...
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Q&A: Kevin J. Williams, Director of ‘Fear of a Black Republican’
Trenton, New Jersey-based film director Kevin Williams spent six years asking some simple questions: With so few African American Republicans in the U.S., does the Republican Party even want them? And what effect is that having on the inner city, in which most politicians are Democrats and, oftentimes, have little visionary competition from the right to make...
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