Bilal Mahmud المكافح المخلص's Blog – September 2023 Archive (27)

On Tuesday, Viola Fletcher, the oldest known living survivor of the Tulsa Race Massacre, will be hosting a Pre-Release

Press Conference at Fulton Bookstore, Tulsa, OK.

During the annual Legacy Fest Ms. Fletcher, her grandson and co-author Ike Howard, along with her “baby brother” WWII Veteran Hughes Van Ellis will make the…

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In Roman folklore, salamanders are fabled to be able to walk through fire and come out alive. Scientifically, they can regenerate entire limbs. These traits make the amphibian a fitting representative for Sheila Johnson’s second entrepreneurial act as founder of the fast-growing luxury hospitality company Salamander Hotels and Resorts.

Perhaps to her chagrin, Johnson is best known as the cofounder of Black…

The United States had 3.5 million residents who identify as Middle Eastern or North African, Venezuelans were the fastest-

growing Hispanic group last decade and Chinese and Asian Indians were the two largest Asian groups, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.

The most detailed race and ethnicity data to date from the 2020 census was released Thursday more than three years after the once-a-decade head count, which determines political power, the distribution of…

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – This city is remembering one of the nation's darkest chapters in civil rights history. On September 15,

1963 the Ku Klux Klan bombed a downtown church, killing four Black girls and rocking the conscience of the nation.

Carolyn McKinstry was the Sunday School…

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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. …

Dusé Mohamed Ali, (November 21, 1866 – June 25, 1945), was an actor, historian, journalist, editor, lecturer, traveler,

publisher, and Nationalist. He was born in Alexandria, Egypt. Duse was mentor of Marcus Garvey and helped establish an organization in Detroit known as the “Universal Islamic Society.” Its motto was “One God, One Aim, One Destiny.” He was known to be a frequently in the company of Muhammad Pickthall, the English…