April 2022 Blog Posts (23)

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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…

Ketanji Brown…

Roseline Jean Louis RN, BSN, is the first nursing PhD student in Emory’s history to receive the Edward A. Bouchet

Graduate Honor Society. The award is named after the first African American doctoral recipient in the United States (Physics, Yale University, 1876), Dr. Edward Alexander Bouchet.

The Society acknowledges outstanding scholarly achievement and promotes diversity and excellence in doctoral education and the professoriate. It is a network of…

Allah, the Most High, says:

“These are the Prophets upon whom Allah bestowed His favor from the seed of Adam, and from the seed of those whom We carried (in the Ark) with Noah, and from the seed of Abraham and Israel. They were those whom We guided and chose (for an exalted position). They were such that when the words of the Most Compassionate Lord…