Malika Bilal in American Muslims: A History Revealed,...

Watch Malika Bilal in American Muslims: A History Revealed, now airing on WORLD Channel and PBS stations nationwide. Streaming on PBS YouTube, PBS.org, and the PBS App.

Across this 6-part series, @mmbilal (also Senior Presenter, Al Jazeera English) explores two powerful chapters: the little-known story of a Muslim soldier in the American Civil War, and the growth of early Black American Muslim communities in northern cities in the 1920s.

For Malika, a lifelong history buff, the series was a chance to uncover stories hiding in plain sight: “This series fills in what’s missing, and reveals how many rich, nuanced, human stories, ripe for the telling, have been left out.”

Watch Malika’s episodes and tell us what YOU think.

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Comment by Bilal Mahmud المكافح المخلص on May 14, 2026 at 5:51am: Malika Bilal (Arabic: مليكة بلال) is a broadcast journalist currently working for Al Jazeera English.

Bilal is the host of the Al Jazeera Podcast The Take. Previously she was co-host and digital producer of The Stream, based at the Al Jazeera English US broadcast-center, in Washington, DC.

She joined the DC bureau from the channel's main broadcast-center in Doha, in Qatar,^[1] where she worked as an editor and writer for the Al Jazeera English website.

Born and raised in Chicago, Illinois,^[2] she self-professedly grew up listening to All Things Considered and Morning Edition on NPRduring the long car rides to and from school with her parents.

Bilal went to Universal School for middle school and Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, where she studied journalism. She also attended the American University in Cairo to develop her knowledge of Arabic.

Bilal began her career as a TV broadcaster on her campus station, but also wrote for magazines. She was then a daily reporter on a Tribune Company newspaper ^[which?] and, in 2006, also worked for Voice of America.^[3]

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