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Muslim Professional Organizations in America: Finding their Role

At their core, all minority professional organizations aim to offer their members a supportive environment where they can come together, share knowledge and resources, and empower each other to be the best professional they can be.  Over the past several years, I’ve struggled with the question of if/how this core functionality is impacted if the ...

The Politics of The Hunger Games

– by Sheheryar Sardar, BroadStreet Times The Hunger Games arrived in theaters across the U.S. in unprecedented form — over 4,300 screens sold out through online sales, an extraordinary but strategically timed social media marketing blitz that statistically surpassed Twilight fever (complete with Twitter and Facebook games and contests), and grassroots anticipation built off the ...

Michael Bay taps Turtle Power

Michael Bay recent announcement that his upcoming live-action reboot of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles will change the story of theturtles’ origins is causing an outcry from the entire 80s generation.  As in anyone born in the 80s, because everyone born in the 80s watched TMNT, said Cowabunga, respected Splinter and wanted to be Michelangelo (the turtle, not ...

Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy wins for Pakistan and the victims in Saving Face

Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy and Daniel Junge won the Oscar for Best Documentary Short for Saving Face, a harrowing but uplifting narrative on the victims of acid attacks in Pakistan and the courageous British-Pakistani plastic surgeon, Dr. Mohammad Jawad, who provides reconstructive surgery and seeks to restore their lives. It’s not only a win for an extraordinary ...

Getting it Right: What Valentine’s Means for Girls

Valentine’s Day is a Hallmark holiday.  It’s commercial, it’s forced, and it’s based on a massacre.  But the point is: so what?  It’s still a day that each woman becomes a girl (yes, we said it) and wants to have the perfect grand romantic gesture.  It’s the day when each girl runs through her favorite ...

Occupying Wall Street May Get You a Job There as Well

Tracy Postert was part of the Occupy Wall Street movement until quite recently.  She stood in Zuccotti Park banging drums, protesting the 1%, and demanding change. Tracy also holds a doctorate in biochemistry. Unlike the picture painted by media, many Occupy Wall Streeters are there because they are simply frustrated by the economy.  It is not all ...

Winter Belly Bulge

Winter is taking its toll on everyone, and summer seems to be an eon away.  But before you know it, bikini season will be here and the belly bulge from winter will have no place to hide.  To combat the hibernation weight gain, here are some healthy, good-tasting foods that will help you fight that ...

Buying Natural: The Best Natural Skincare Gifts for the Holidays

Holiday shopping is hard as it is, but it’s even harder if you are looking for a gift for a woman that is focused on natural skincare. With all the products on the market that claim to be natural and work better than the next, BroadStreet Times writers decided to parse through the products and ...

Bloomberg Criticizes Call to Investigation of Police Misconduct

Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg criticized a prominent New York City congressman for calling for a Justice Department investigation of alleged police misconduct at the Occupy Wall Street protests.  ”If he would spend more time getting us homeland security money, maybe he’d make the streets safer,” stated Mayor Bloomberg of Representative Jerrold Nadler’s inquiry request. Rep. Nadler, a Democrat, represents ...