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Wilmington, N.C. 

This is FRESH AIR. I'm Terry Gross. The American South in the post-Reconstruction era was a land of broken promises and brutal oppression for African Americans, as white leaders stripped former slaves of many of the civil and voting rights they'd won after the Civil War. But in the 1890s, the port city of Wilmington, N.C., was an exception. It had a thriving black middle class, a large black electorate and a local government that included…

Kareem Abdul Jabbar 

Basketball Hall of Famer and six-time NBA MVP Kareem Abdul-Jabbar's auction for some of his personal memorabilia closed Sunday, per Goldin Auctions.

His title rings and memorabilia auctioned for…

Race And The Real World

Confederacy 

I’ve lived 55 years in the South, and I grew up liking the Confederate flag. I haven’t flown one for many decades, but for a reason that might surprise you.

I know the South well. We lived wherever the Marine Corps stationed my father: Georgia, Virginia, the Carolinas. As a child, my favorite uncle wasn’t in the military, but he did pack a .45 caliber Thompson submachine gun in his trunk. He was a leader in the Ku Klux Klan. Despite my role…

Pope In Iraq for meeting with Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani

BAGHDAD

life of my teacher whom I spent 8 years of my life studying under; who

would refine me, educate me, advise me, and transmit ijaaza to me thus

becoming the father of my spiritual life, Shaykh Muhammad Emin Er.

Shaykh Muhammad Emin Er was…

Imam Jamil Al Amin Update 

Jamil Al-Amin’s Son Condemns Medical Neglect By Prison Authorities | By Any Means Necessary…

Black Lives Matter

Black Lives Matter Launches Survival Fund As U.S. Awaits More Federal COVID-19 Relief | Iowa Public Radio

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إنا لله وإنا إليه راجعون اللهم اغفر له.

Comrade Haroun Returned To Allah...May Allah Have Mercy On Him...

إنا لله وانا إليه راجعون اللهم اغفر له وارحمه

Haroun and Kofi Abu Ruyaa, Bilal Mahmud

Big Brother Little…

Mahmoud Abdul Rauf...

Irecently interviewed former NBA player Matt Barnes for my show The Rematch, where he discussed meeting with Joe…

Lauryn Hill 

More than 20 years after its release, The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill has reached diamond status.

The Recording Industry…

Black History Month in

The Muslim American Conscious

By Imam Khalid Fattah Griggs

 With few noteworthy exceptions, historical accounts of…

Malcolm X's mother, Louise Norton Little (1897-1989). Louise Little was a brilliant woman, multi-language speaking, and had been for years, with her husband Earl Little, a devoted activist of Marcus Garvey's Pan African Movement (Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities…

When I heard that they were turning the best-selling book ‘The Reason I Jump’ into a full-length documentary film I was SO excited. For those who haven’t read the book, yet it was written in 2007 written from the perspective of a nonspeaking…

Where Are The Muslim On This Issue