All Blog Posts (4,432)

Before Central Park was created, the landscape along what is now the Park’s perimeter from West 82nd to West 89th

Street was the site of Seneca Village, a community of predominantly African-Americans, many of whom owned property. By 1855, the village consisted of approximately 225 residents, made up of roughly…

On Al-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz

All over the globe, and particularly in the u.s., people will be honoring the life and commemorating the assassination of El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz/Malcolm X tomorrow on the 21st. 

In an article he posted on 2-19-2025, Ajamu Baraka – Editor of Black Agenda Report and renowned social justice activist – included the following quote of El-Hajj Malik: …

From Pine Ridge, South Dakota, to the U.S. penitentiary in central Florida, those who fought for decades for the release of Turtle Mountain Chippewa activist Leonard Peltier celebrated former President Joe Biden’s decision Monday to grant him clemency.

“Tears of joy. Tears of joy,” said Ivis Long Visitor, a 70-year-old Oglala Lakota man who was at the scene of the June 26, 1975, shootout between members of the American Indian Movement and two FBI agents. “I’m so…

Inna lillahi wa inna ilayhi rajioon. Our beloved brother Ibrahim Lumsden has returned to Allah. Please make dua'a for him

and his family. May Allah forgive him of his sins and accept him into the highest paradise. His janazah will be Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 4:00 PM, Atlanta Masjid of Al-Islam.…

The early Muslim in America did not necessarily come through the Nation of Islam.  Many came through the door of Islam

as practiced all over the world.  Praying five time a day, fasting during the month of Ramadan, paying Zakat and performing the Hajj.  

1/2/2025

Islamic Party In North America... الحزب…

The Overlooked Legacy

by Habeeba Husain

Contrary to popular belief, Muslims have been in America from its very beginning. Founding father Thomas Jefferson even had his own copy of the Quran! Many of the Africans forcibly brought to the United States through the Atlantic slave trade came from Muslim backgrounds. From the get-go, black Muslims have had a…

The Unchecked Influence of Wealth in Politics: An Islamic Perspective By Imam Nadim Sulaiman Ali

By:  Imam Nadim S. Ali

The recent moves by the Trump administration can be summed up as the culmination of Citizens United a ruling by the Supreme Court that stated spending money on politics is a form of free speech and protected by the First…

Fanon saw violence as the only language colonizers truly understand. Through violence, imperialists instilled a sense of inferiority in the colonized, and it was therefore through violence that the colonized could regain a sense of self, a sense of culture, and the physical reality of statehood…

http://bit.ly/4jbxfgE

Support suspended Palestinian MD/PHD Emory student, Umaymah Mohammad!

Take the two necessary actions:

1) Send an email to Emory administrators requesting they drop Umaymah's suspension and remove IDF soldiers from healthcare spaces and

2) Leave a message using the phone script for several Emory admin reiterating those demands.

Umaymah was unjustly suspended from Emory…

VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITY via:

https://www.winwithblackwomen.org/

The International Black Women's Public Policy Institute (IBWPPI) is calling on compassionate and dedicated licensed therapists to partner with us in offering critical mental health support to survivors of the devastating Altadena and Hurst fires in Los Angeles County.

The survivors are primarily working - to middle-class families, many of whom…

There comes a time in every man's life when he has to stand for something that he believes in  from the depths of his

heart.  That stand may cost him everything he possesses in this life.  He can only do this when be truly believes that the hereafter is better than this life.  This stance is demonstrated in the life of our beloved brother Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf.

  We Must All Stand For Something:  …

The Fury of The Hand of Justice

Nothing happens in the entire universe independent of The Divine Decree of GOD. From the most magnificent to most insignificant occurrence; whatever comes to be is only because it was willed to be by The Command of Creator. Just like earthquakes, hurricanes, rain, snow, tornadoes and wind; fire is a force of nature. It is controlled by none…

https://thekingcenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/2025-BCCS-300x300.webp 300w, https://thekingcenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/2025-BCCS-80x80.webp 80w,…