Activism / My recent detention at Heathrow shows that the architecture of state repression knows no borders. Momodou Taal After I was forced to leave the United States, I thought that my days of being ...
Momodou Taal delivered the following speech at a public meeting in London hosted by the Socialist Equality Party (UK) on Saturday May 31, “Trump’s war on free speech: The case of Momodou Taal”. A ...
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Momodou Taal is a writer and researcher currently in the fourth year of his PhD at Cornell University. He is the host of the podcast The Malcolm Effect, author of the book The Malcolm Effect Revisited ...
Cornell University has garnered national attention for its unprecedented attempt to effectively deport Momodou Taal, an international student over his brief appearance at a nonviolent protest at the ...
Cornell University Ph.D. student Momodou Taal has voluntarily left the United States amid threats of deportation after participating in pro-Palestinian protests. Taal faced revocation of his student ...
Momodou Taal, the British-Gambian student who challenged US President Donald Trump’s unconstitutional war on free speech and the right to protest the Gaza genocide, spoke at a public meeting in London ...
On March 20, the Palestinian Youth Movement (PYM) hosted a conversation with Cornell University student and pro-Palestinian activist Momodou Taal. Less than a week prior, Taal had filed a lawsuit ...
Former Cornell Ph.D. student Momodou Taal fled the country in March 2025 after his lawyers were sent an email requesting that he turn himself in to Immigration and Customs Enforcement — nearly a week ...
Momodou Taal is a doctoral candidate in Africana Studies at Cornell University. “I look at how countries that have experienced colonialism reclaim sovereignty, particularly focused on political ...