Best Resources for Startups

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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 ...

Face of New Racism – Teacher asks student to read “blacker,” a teen is gunned down, Muslims are profiled – all in the 21st century

A few weeks ago, we dealt with the issue of teachers using slavery as a math problem in Georgia.  Today, we are dealing with teachers telling African American students to read in a “blacker” way, in the “manner” of a slave or a rap artist.  This is 2012.  There is something horribly wrong with this ...

If Peyton Can Go – Anyone Can.

Four-time NFL Most Valuable Player, Peyton Manning, announced the end of his 14-year old career with the Indianapolis Colts on Wednesday.  The press conference with Colts owner Jim Irsay and Manning made it clear that the decision was out of their hands.  ”It wasn’t his decision. It wasn’t my decision. Circumstances kind of dictated it,” Manning said. ...

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 ...

PGA Golfer, Swim Coach and 40 Others Arrested in Child Sex Sting

Just when we were beginning to move forward from the likes of Bernie Fine and Jerry Sandusky, a new string of names has popped up in a large Florida child sex related sting operation.  ”Operation Red Cheeks,” the name given to the child sex sting, began January 8, 2012 and involved several different crime-fighting organizations in ...

Gala Season for a Cause: YOUR DIL NY

As supporters dressed to the nines poured into the Broad Street Ballrom on Saturday, the scene took on a festive elegance – all for a good cause. The charity gala, entitled this year as “Midnight in Marrakech,” welcomed hundreds of supporters of YOUR DIL New York for their seventh annual gala, raising funds for the eradication of illiteracy in ...