Tomorrow, the White House is paying tribute to 10 "Champions of Change" activists for their work in various fields, including a Brooklyn Democrat who told me in September that President Obama "has been terrible on civil-rights issues."
Linda Sarsour, 31, of Bay Ridge, is the director of the Arab-American Association of New York and the advocacy coordinator for the National Network for Arab-American Communities. In 2008, she helped lead a voter-turnout operation targeting Arab and Muslim New Yorkers. Since then, as part of the Arab-American Democratic Club of New York, she has advocated a more pro-Palestinian agenda for the Democratic Party, ...to read more...
