February 3, 2016

Amaar Rashid is a youth activist and an admissions assistant at the American College of Commerce and Technology in Washington, DC. Here, he recalls how his Pakistani mother’s unlikely higher education saved his family from a life of destitution. Witnessing the ways education empowered his mother sparked Amaar to fight for women’s rights. Every chance […]

Tanzina Rahman is currently a high school senior at Brooklyn Technical High School in New York. In her story she shares how her perception of Islam has changed over the years and how her new understanding has shaped her identity. I never liked being called a Muslim. I thought it meant having to pray five times