US film academy vows to double minority memberships
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, which organises Hollywood’s annual Oscar awards ceremony, has pledged to double its membership of women and minorities by 2020. The announcement on Saturday came after a week-long furore over a lack of diversity in the Oscars awards, with an all white cast in the nominations for the […]
8 Simple Ways To Stay Motivated
Oftentimes we’re too busy, too stressed, or too uninspired to do things we set ourselves to do. But in AsapTHOUGHT’s video, “8 Simple Tips To Stay Motivated”, hosts Mitchell Moffit and Gregory Brown explain there are motivational life hacks that can help us achieve our goals without giving up. Achieving a goal is as simple […]
Ad blockers: Google reveals it now has over 1,000 staff just fighting bad ads
Google says last year it eliminated 780 million “plain bad” ads carrying malware, promoting fake goods or leading to phishing sites. Ad networks have become a popular mechanism for distributing malware, such as the malvertising campaign spread via Google’s AdSense at the beginning of last year. To prevent bad ads from harming internet users and […]
‘National Review’ Comes Out Against Donald Trump
The conservative National Review has lost its chance to participate as a partner in the February 25 Republican debate after publishing an editorial titled “Against Trump” and other articles critical of Donald Trump on its website Thursday evening. That headline is also on the cover of the magazine’s upcoming issue, as are the names of […]
Jersey City, Newark, Paterson collecting bottled water for Flint residents
JERSEY CITY — Mayor Steve Fulop is joining with the mayors of Newark and Paterson to collect bottled water to deliver to Flint, Michigan, which has been inundated with toxic tap water. Anyone interested in helping can drop off bottled water at City Hall, 280 Grove St., or at the Bethune Center, 140 Martin Luther […]
Ummah never existed in history, says Mubarak Ali
Noted historian Dr Mubarak Ali said on Wednesday that Islamic Ummah had neither been a reality in the past nor did it exist today as Muslims living as majority populations in the world identified themselves with the lands they lived in through the centuries. We all living in the Muslim lands should search for our […]
Republicans ‘Run’ From Chance To Vote On Trump’s ‘Muslim Ban’
Why not side with Donald Trump and ban all Muslim immigration? That was the collective question posed by Democrats to their Republican colleagues in the Senate on Wednesday. The legislative lashes transpired Wednesday as Senate Republicans sought to push through a bipartisan veto-proof bill from the House that would further increase scrutiny of refugees, hobbling […]
The Trump Effect: Muslim Man Beaten, Hospitalized in Philadelphia For Speaking Arabic
In a supposedly post-racial America, a Muslim immigrant found himself in an emergency room this weekend after being brutally beaten for speaking Arab on a Philadelphia street. Amine Aouam, who moved to the United States from Morocco seven years ago, says the attack “was obviously a hate crime.” Another instance of the “Trump Effect”? Speaking […]