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Sheryl Lee Ralph made history by performing “Lift Every Voice and Sing,” also known as the “Black national anthem,” on

the field before Super Bowl LVII. The NFL has been incorporating the song into pregame ritual since 2021, when Alicia Keys sang the song in a prerecorded video. Mary Mary performed the song outside SoFi studio last year. Ralph is the first performer to do the song on the field before the game. Perhaps taken with…

We have long known that the industrial rise of rich countries depended on extraction from the global South during the

colonial era. Europe’s industrial revolution relied in large part on cotton and sugar, which were grown on land stolen from Indigenous Americans, with forced labour from enslaved Africans. Extraction from Asia and Africa was used to pay for infrastructure, public buildings, and welfare states in Europe – all the markers…

Al-Farooq Masjid of Atlanta, Ga. …

On Wednesday (Feb. 8), Benjamin Crump become the first Black practicing attorney to have a law school named after him. The College of Law at St.…

Amir Sulaiman

Sunday night (02/05/23) during Black History month, our brother and nephew-in-faith poet Amir Sulaiman won a grammy in a triumph for him, his family, our faith community, and conscious Muslim Hip-hop. May Allah continue to bless him. Oh up and coming generation of the Ummah of Muhammad ( peace be upon him) - hold fast to Allah's rope and persevere in the pursuit of your dreams and our prophesied destiny…

Healthcare workers Yasmin Samatar and Faraoli Adam were on a mission to help keep Muslim healthcare workers

and patients safe in the hospital, leading them to create a special line of hygienic…

During the month of Jumada II, 1444 A.H. Sheikh Khalil and his wife Ustadha Samia had the opportunity to visit The House Of Allah in Mecca for Umrah.  Below, you will find an account of this magnificent journey.

Honoring the legacy of Black Muslim In America

• Our 3rd Annual “Honoring the Legacy of Black Muslims” virtual celebration is scheduled for Saturday, February 25, 2023. Please save the date, and plan to join us for what is sure to be an outstanding event! I will send a flyer and registration details soon, so that you all can share with your networks. 

Our 3rd Annual “Honoring the Legacy of Black…

Bilal Mahmud was born in Richmond, Va. and lived there for the first 6 years of his life.  At the age of 6 he moved to

rural North Carolina, to a small town on the Virginia line named Roanoke Rapids , N.C. He resided in North Carolina until 1969 at which time he enlisted into the United States Marine Corps.  While in the Marine Corps, one of his duty stations was South Vietnam, where he was introduced to and became…

(Qur’an 94:5-6) So, verily, with every difficulty, there is relief. Verily with every difficulty there is relief. 

فَإِنَّ مَعَ ٱلۡعُسۡرِ يُسۡرًا (٥) إِنَّ مَعَ ٱلۡعُسۡرِ يُسۡرً۬ا

The story of Abdullah is an example of obtaining relief with difficulty.

In the 1980s I worked as a chaplain in the State Prison in Southern Michigan, known at that time as the largest prison in the free world. One day…

It is with great concern that the Muslim Public Affairs Council (MPAC) views the firing of an art professor, Erika López

Prater, from Hamline University on the grounds of showing a fourteenth-century painting depicting the Prophet Muḥammad. We issue this statement of support for the professor and urge the university to reverse its decision and to take compensatory action to ameliorate the situation.

News sources report that the matter reached the university…