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Jeff Karoub | AP

On Muslim Holiday, Houston’s Mosques Open To Hurricane Harvey Evacuees

As in other catastrophes, from Superstorm Sandy in October 2012 to Hurricane Katrina in 2005, and the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, American Muslims have been counted both as victims and as participants in the recovery.

1 сентября, 2017
Nomaan Merchant
Jeff Karoub | AP
1 сентября, 2017
От Nomaan Merchant
И Jeff Karoub | AP
Ayman Kabire, a volunteer at Champions Mosque with the Islamic Society of Greater Houston, talks to evacuees at a mosque that was being used as a shelter. Houston's Muslim community, an estimated 200,000 people, has opened many of its community centers and sent hundreds of volunteers to serve food and deliver donations. Some have rescued neighbors from high water. (AP/Jay Reeves)

The gymnasium at the Champions Islamic Center is covered with mats and blankets, donated clothes and boxes of food lining its walls. On the eve of the Eid al-Adha festival, one of Islam's holiest days, it's become the temporary home for 15 of the thousands of Harvey evacuees, Muslim and non-Muslim. And though it will host hundreds of people

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Commission Finds ‘Systemic Racism’ At Root Of Flint Water Crisis

Would the Flint water crisis have been allowed to happen in Birmingham, Ann Arbor or East Grand Rapids?

20 февраля, 2017
Jeff Karoub | AP
20 февраля, 2017
От Jeff Karoub | AP
Pastor David Bullock holds up a bottle of Flint water as Michigan State Police hold a barrier to keep protestors out of the Romney Building, where Gov. Rick Snyder's office resides on Thursday, Jan. 14, 2016, in Lansing, Mich. (Jake May/The Flint Journal-MLive.com via AP)

FLINT, Mich. — "Systemic racism" going back decades is at the core of problems that caused a lead-contaminated water crisis in the majority black city of Flint, according to a Michigan Civil Rights Commission report issued Friday. The report says the commission did not unearth any civil rights law violations and that nobody "intended to poison

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