“What happened to me made me sad and anxious and forced me to fight for my education just because of my race," CJ, a teenager from Alabama, said in an emotional speech to the United Nations Permanent Forum on People of African Descent.
“You still feel like they’re your family that are dying, no matter where they’re in Palestine, because you feel they’re a part of you,” Danah D., of Hoover, said. “How am I, as a Palestinian, able to go on and live with all this privilege and comfort?”
“I do not personally endorse the UAW or its campaign and have asked the UAW to remove any advertisements featuring me from circulation. I encourage all Team Members to exercise their right to vote in the upcoming election."
An Amber Alert issued Monday morning for a child abducted from Forestdale has been canceled after the child was found safe and his father taken into custody.
NEW: Laith Mekdad, a 24-year-old Birmingham resident, has grieved from afar as more than 100 of his relatives back in Gaza have been killed in Israeli airstrikes.
Read his story, as well as those of four other young Palestinian Americans in Alabama:
U.S. Sen. Tommy Tuberville, R-Ala., was in court this morning with other Republican lawmakers for a day of testimony in former President Donald Trump’s ongoing trial for falsifying business records.
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Friends and family of the boy gathered outside of the hospital late Sunday night waiting for word on his condition. He was expected to be taken into surgery.
The teen is one of three children shot in Jefferson County on Sunday.