February 2023 Blog Posts (19)

"Those who have no record of what their forebears have accomplished lose the inspiration which comes from the teaching of biography and history." — Carter G. Woodson

There are many things from childhood that Brett Woodson Bailey doesn't remember. Maybe it has to do with his cancer diagnosis at 4-years-old, living in the hospital for almost two years, undergoing…

More than 50 Harvard affiliates gathered on the steps of Memorial Church for a candlelit vigil on Thursday to mourn the victims of earthquakes in Turkey and Syria earlier this month.

The magnitude 7.8 earthquake, which struck Feb. 6, killed more than 40,000 people and left tens of thousands injured or missing. The initial earthquake was followed by more than 30 aftershocks of at least magnitude 4.5, leaving hundreds of…

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.