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Redemption Holding Co. has completed its acquisition of Utah-based Holladay Bank & Trust, making it the first time a bank has been owned by a Black-led investment group in the Western U.S.

The company will be the 24th Black-owned bank in the nation, which are known as Minority Depository Institutions (MDI). The last created MDI, a federal designation for banks and unions that are owned or directed by minority groups, was Adelphi Bank in 2023.

MDIs began in…

Happy Islamic New Year to everyone from all of us here at OPOW.   This marks the start of Muharram, the first month of the Islamic calendar, and is a time for reflection and  new beginnings.  It's a chance to renew faith and focus on good deeds

"May Allah forgive our past mistakes, bless our present, and grant us a beautiful future,"

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As cities across Tennessee prepare for Juneteenth celebrations with banners unfurling, vendors setting up, and leaders finalizing programs honoring Black liberation, a deeper question lingers: What does it mean to celebrate freedom in a state restricting how that freedom’s history is taught?

In Tennessee, state lawmakers have…

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Ustadha Zaynab Ansari serves as an adjunct instructor at Boston Islamic Seminary and a full-time instructor at Tayseer Seminary, where she teaches classes on Islamic law, Qur’an & Hadith studies, Prophetic biography, American…

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I had the pleasure to sharing a brief reflection at the Anaheim "No Kings" Protest. It was amazing to have Khalil there with me and to explain to him our responsibility to stand against injustice.…

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The documentary "Who Killed Shireen?" identifies …

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The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the nation’s largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, today welcomed a federal judge’s ruling that anti-genocide activist and legal U.S. resident Mahmoud Khalil must be released from detention.

SEE: Judge says government must release Columbia University protester Mahmoud…