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Texas’ Comptroller Removes Women & Minorities from Program to Boost Women & Minority Businesses
“It's creating noise and uncertainty in an economic landscape that doesn't really need any more of that,” Julie Hartman, an affected business-owner, told Jezebel.
Halle Berry Calls Out Pick-Me Presidential Hopeful Gavin Newsom
“And with the way he’s overlooked women—half the population—by devaluing us in midlife, he probably should not be our next president either,” Berry said on Wednesday.
West African Asylum Seekers Find Safe Haven in NYC Volunteer-Run Kitchen
"Making America White Again": Trump Further Restricts Immigration, Ramps Up ICE Raids
Israel-backed gang leader killed in Gaza; Israel strikes Lebanon amid talks; ICE in New Orleans
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Texas’ Grim New Abortion Law Wants to Intimidate the Country Away from Helping Women in Texas
“Just because a law was passed in another state, that doesn’t mean we’re going to change our practice,” Dr. Angel Foster, founder of the Massachusetts Medication Abortion Access Project, told Jezebel.
West African Asylum Seekers Find Safe Haven in NYC Volunteer-Run Kitchen
Amid escalating ICE raids in New York City, Democracy Now!’s Messiah Rhodes spoke to immigrants and advocates supporting newly arrived migrants and asylum seekers from West Africa with hot meals, legal advice and job training. “When I help the people here, the people will help me one day,” Guinean immigrant Abdul Karim, a cook at Cafewal weekday kitchen, told Rhodes. Murad Awawdeh, of the New York Immigration Coalition and a member of New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani’s transition team, also comments. He shares how the incoming mayoral administration can work to protect immigrants from Trump’s anti-immigrant agenda.
"Making America White Again": Trump Further Restricts Immigration, Ramps Up ICE Raids
Immigrant rights advocate Murad Awawdeh joins us to discuss Donald Trump’s nationwide anti-immigrant crackdown and how it’s manifested in Trump’s hometown of New York City, where hundreds of New Yorkers recently blocked a federal immigration raid targeting street vendors from West Africa before it even started. “This has never been about vetting. This has never been about security and safety. It’s about cruelty,” says Awawdeh about the Trump administration’s persecution of immigrants. “His war on immigrants and his mass deportation agenda is all to lead to making America white again.”