{"id":8958,"date":"2014-05-14T14:51:16","date_gmt":"2014-05-14T14:51:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/?p=8958"},"modified":"2020-10-26T03:50:36","modified_gmt":"2020-10-26T03:50:36","slug":"muslim-woman-set-to-run-for-us-congress-seat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/muslim-woman-set-to-run-for-us-congress-seat\/","title":{"rendered":"Muslim woman set to run for US Congress seat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Cheryl Sudduth is set to become the second Muslim woman to run for\u00a0Congress\u00a0in the\u00a0United States.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Seeking to enter the\u00a0House of Representatives\u00a0to represent the 11th congressional district of California, she hopes to improve the public \u00a0education system, and close the achievement gap among underserved and vulnerable members of the community.<\/p>\n<p>As an\u00a0African-American\u00a0Muslim woman, she enjoys the support of many people in her community from African-American and Muslim minorities as well as women.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe still need more women legislators\u00a0ensuring\u00a0women\u2019s issues are priority,\u201d she wrote on herFacebook\u00a0page.<\/p>\n<p>As a\u00a0former\u00a0youth worker, she has especially helped\u00a0people with disabilities\u00a0and social disadvantages get into work and training, enabling them to gain vital life skills.<\/p>\n<p>She has also been an\u00a0activist\u00a0against gender, ethnic, and\u00a0racial discrimination\u00a0in the workplace, as well as a campaigner for equal pay.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Source:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.abna.ir\/english\/service\/america\/archive\/2014\/05\/10\/607690\/story.html\">ABNA<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cheryl Sudduth is set to become the second Muslim woman to run for\u00a0Congress\u00a0in the\u00a0United States. Seeking to enter the\u00a0House of Representatives\u00a0to represent the 11th congressional district of California, she hopes to improve the public \u00a0education system, and close the achievement gap among underserved and vulnerable members of the community. As an\u00a0African-American\u00a0Muslim woman, she enjoys the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8959,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":2,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[716,714,715,163,1429],"class_list":["post-8958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-sayyed-abdulmalik","tag-african-american-muslim","tag-congress","tag-first-woman","tag-ticker","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8958","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8958"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8958\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8970,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8958\/revisions\/8970"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}