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How Bullying and Spying on Muslims After 9/11 Spawned a Justice-Seeking Generation

By The Immigrant's Journal on September 11, 2021 New York

A crowd estimated at 10,000 joined NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio in declaring: “Today I am a Muslim” during a rally in Times Square. – NYC – February 19, 2017 – Shutterstock By Claudia Irizarry Aponte, THE CITY The weeks and months after Sept. 11, 2001, were marked by a profound sense of both loss […]

Lessons From NYC’s Children of 9/11 Help the Kids of COVID as School Resumes

By The Immigrant's Journal on September 11, 2021 New York

By Samantha Maldonado, THE CITY Scarlet Taveras was 17 when she evacuated her high school, just south of the World Trade Center, on Sept. 11, 2001. Now, 20 years later, after a career in fashion that took her to Europe and a stint in Atlanta, Taveras is back in her childhood home in Washington Heights […]