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Conference On Muslim Mental Health For Community Leaders 

By Imam Nadim Ali, LPC, MAC  5/14/22

On Saturday May 14, 2022 The Ibn Sina Foundation of Houston Texas presented  a conference entitled Muslim Mental Health For Community Leaders.  

The…

Eid AlFitr Press Release

Slideshow:  Bilal Mahmud | Eid Al Fitr 1443 Atlanta, Ga.…

كلُّ عـامٍ وقلوبُكم في سلامة، وأجسادُكم في عافية، وأهلكم في محبة، وإيمانُكم في زيادة، ورجاؤكم في الله غيرُ خائب .

Eid Mubarak From All Of Us At OPOW...…

عيد مبارك إلى المجتمع أتلانتا

On behalf of the Atlanta, Ga Muslim, we at OPOW, would like to first congratulate the Muslim community on it's completion of this Bless Month of Ramadan.  We pray that Allah will…

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In the working-class neighborhood where I grew up, there was virtually no access to financial education. Most people in my community rented their houses and apartments, my family included—and there weren’t a lot of role models in our community to explain the importance of saving, investing, and creating wealth. The result was easy to predict: Most of my childhood friends haven’t had especially successful careers, and those who have made good money haven’t always…

On the evening of April 9, 2022 The Dar Un Noor School hosted 200 people on its 14^th street campus for 90 minutes to

Posted:  4/10/22

celebrate 34 years of serving the Atlanta community. On this 8^th day of Ramadan, the atmosphere was intimate and the…

Thomas Sankara...

In a play I watched 15 years ago in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, a character indignantly cried: “Everyone knows who killed Sankara!” His counterpart quietly replied: “Really?” The audience held its breath. The first character, deflated, mumbled: “Yes … it was malaria.” Bursts of cathartic laughter.

Today Burkinabe no longer resort to such subterfuge to talk about Thomas Sankara’s death. A historic trial in…

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Alice Walker says the art of journaling allows the journaler to watch themselves develop, identify their fears and discover what’s holding them back and keeping them silent.

Walker, who started journaling sometime between the ages of 17 or 18, says she was gifted her first journal by a friend at Spelman College ahead of a trip to the Soviet Union.

On Monday’s…