(NewsNation) — A disabled woman on her way to a medical appointment who was dragged out of her car by federal immigration officers says she feels “lucky to be alive.”…

In April 1960, a fifty-six-year-old woman stood at a podium in a crowded chapel at Shaw University in Raleigh, North Carolina, and quietly changed the course of American history.

The students packed into those pews had just come from lunch counter sit-ins across the South. Some had been beaten.…

(The Root) -- Few theatrical productions are the talk of the town as much as the National Theatre's Othello currently

Actors Rory Kinnear (Iago) and Adrian Lester (Othello) in Othello (National Theatre

By: Lindsay Johns…

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54 year journey of Bilal Mahmud

March 10, 1969...

56 years ago today, this young man went out from Roanoke Rapids NC to see the world... It has been a magnificent journey thus far... stay tuned and stay safe...

MAY 9, 1999

This program was put together by Sister Anisa Abd El Fattah, a pioneer in her own time.  We have much to learn from her and her work.  

The U.S. and Iran: It's Time to Talk

Fanon saw violence as the only language colonizers truly understand. Through violence, imperialists instilled a sense of inferiority in the colonized, and it was therefore through violence that the colonized could regain a sense of self, a sense of culture, and the physical reality of statehood…

"As people from across the world, we believe Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur for the West Bank and Gaza, and the doctors caring for people in Gaza deserve a Nobel Peace Prize for their work."

"As people from across the world, we believe…

Sheikh Abdur Rasheed Hadiyatullah was also one of the founding member of the Al-Farooq Masjid of Atlanta.  We will miss our brother tremendously.

Salatu Ghaib will be performed on Friday, May 2, 2025 immediately after Jummuah prayer at Al-Farooq…

He who could address this audience without a quailing sensation, has stronger nerves than I have. I do not remember

Occasion: Meeting sponsored by the Rochester Ladies’ Anti-Slavery Society, Rochester Hall, Rochester, N.Y. To illustrate the full shame of slavery, Douglass delivered a speech that took aim at the pieties of the nation -- the cherished memories of its revolution, its principles of liberty, and its moral and religious foundation. The Fourth of…

Origins

The red, black, and green Pan-African flag designed by the…

Editor's note: In time for the 90th anniversary of the Tulsa Race Riot on May 31, 2011, here's the story of a sad

chapter of American history, pulled from The Root's archives.

In 1921, Greenwood, a successful, all-black enclave in Tulsa, was the site of the deadliest race riot in U.S. history. For the inhabitants of "the Black Wall Street," life would never be the…

Ajir Kofi Bilal Mahmud is one of the original founders of The Atlanta Mosque (1977) and has been a Board Member since its inception.  He is a US Marine Corp veteran and freelance photographer and reporter with several blogs and websites, documenting Islam in America. Mahmud is also an associate of AABJ (Atlanta Association of Black Journalists)

  He was critical in negotiating the purchase of the original property at 442 14th Street, attending and…

There comes a time in every man's life when he has to stand for something that he believes in  from the depths of his

heart.  That stand may cost him everything he possesses in this life.  He can only do this when be truly believes that the hereafter is better than this life.  This stance is demonstrated in the life of our beloved brother Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf.

  We Must All Stand For Something:  …