9/11

From the executive director of South Asian Americans Leading Together: “This September 11, I will remember that this is the true patriotism—working with our communities to protect each other, and in doing so, to form a more perfect union.”

The hashtag emerged as a response to 9/11 tributes that some feel dismiss the years of Islamophobia-induced violence and paranoia that impact Muslims, South Asians, Arabs and Sikhs.

A unique University of Chicago study showed a 34-percent increase in low infant birth-weight for Arab children born in the six months following the 9/11 attacks.

Since the September 11, 2001 bombing of the World Trade Center, Muslim-Americans and other brown people have faced racism, physical attacks, violent threats, government spying, media malfeasance and self-censorship. Basim Usmani examines how this post 9/11 environment has marred his Boston Muslim community—and his own ability to speak up.

But there’s hope.

Does this mean the end of post-9/11 dragnet tactics?

Undercover documents expose extensive mosque surveillance in New York.

Univision anchor Maria Elena Salinas remembers covering the events of September 11, 2001.

A decade after September 11, 2001, the government is wielding it’s broad counterterrorism powers against non-citizens who pose no threat and who face deportation as a result.