Resources on Muslims for the Entertainment Industry
The MOST Story Bank is a live archive of stories on the most current events, people and cultural perspectives of Muslims in America and around the world. With writers in mind, MOST carefully selects story-driven news from the most reputable published sources.
According to U.S. Census Bureau data, Los Angeles is home to 160,800 immigrants from Iran, Iraq, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen, and thus, according to the L.A. Weekly, “has more residents who hail … [Read more...]
As a response to President Trump’s ban on immigration to the U.S. from seven mostly-Muslim countries, the Museum of Modern Art has rehung part of its permanent collection by artists from some of these … [Read more...]
Texas Muslim Capitol Day is a gathering hosted by the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) which engages the Muslim community and local lawmakers. Two years ago, the Muslim participants who … [Read more...]
In this op-ed for the New York Times, Pulitzer Prize winning columnist Nicholas Kristof makes the point that “whenever an extremist in the Muslim world does something crazy, people demand that … [Read more...]
President Trump has defended his executive order temporarily banning refugees and nearly all citizens from seven Muslim-majority countries but according to the AP, “Trump [has] misstated the facts … [Read more...]
A photo of two children –a Muslim girl wearing a hijab and a Jewish boy wearing a kippah – went viral on Monday night. The photo, shot by Nuccio DiNuzzo, a staff photographer at the Chicago Tribune, … [Read more...]
Last night, President Donald Trump fired the acting attorney general, Sally Q. Yates, for her public declaration that the department would not legally defend the president’s controversial immigration … [Read more...]
CNN reports: Donald Trump first introduced the idea of a Muslim travel ban in December 2015, shortly after Syed Rizwan Farook and his wife, Tashfeen Malik, shot and killed 14 people in San … [Read more...]
In 1980, Congress passed the Refugee Act which created the Federal Refugee Resettlement Program and the current national standard for the screening and admission of refugees into the U.S. Last Friday, … [Read more...]
BuzzFeed brings you a powerful listicle of cartoonists, both professional and amateur, sharing their artwork in response to Donald Trump’s Muslim Ban which suspended the refugee program for 120 days … [Read more...]
