CAMPUS PROGRESS: How One Muslim American Uses Hip-Hop to Heal Wounds

When Cyrus McGoldrick takes the stage, he’s not himself. McGoldrick raps as The Raskol Khan, often with the Freddy Fuego Sextet, an evolving group of musicians based in Harlem. The name Raskol is based on the main character in Dostoyevsky’s Crime and Punishment, Rodion Romanovich Raskolnikov. McGoldrick describes the first part of his pseudonym as “a rebellious force in society who’s trying to do the right thing but struggles with his environment and self.” Khan, Arabic for King or Chief, “channels a vestige of an imperial mindset, a long history of conquest,” he says. It is a history McGoldrick hopes to cleanse himself of.

CNN: Ground Zero mosque ad stirs emotions

(CNN) – The fight over plans to build an Islamic center near the site of the World Trade Center continues to escalate. A new advertisement titled “The audacity of Jihad” aims to prevent the mosque from being built by using graphic footage of 9/11 and militant Muslims. CNN's Allan Chernoff talks to the man behind the controversial new ad. Watch

DOWNTOWN EXPRESS: Landmarks hearing on Cordoba House site takes angry turn

Hunter College's Assembly Hall played host on Tuesday to yet another media circus concerning the planned community center and prayer space slated to built at 45 Park Place, home of the old Burlington coat Factory.

The New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission held a three-hour hearing on whether or not to landmark the building. The Commission, currently in the public comment phase, will deliver a decision before summer ends.

CBS: Landmark Status At Issue In Ground Zero Mosque War

It was an emotional and raucous meeting of the Landmarks Preservation Commission on Tuesday.

At issue: whether to grant landmark status to a building near ground zero, where a Muslim group wants to build a mosque.

"It's called Islama-phobia pure and simple and do not allow ... Now, you see, if this is the voice, if this is the voice of reason then we've got a lot to contend with," said Zead Ramadan of the Council on Islamic-American Relations New York.