Black Muslims Archive

  • henderson_solution

    If You’re Not Part of the Solution, You’re Part of the Problem

    There has been, in my mind, a growing trend in Black America for the last 40-odd years: the rise in secularism amongst Blackamericans. By this I refer to the increasing tendency for Blackamericans to make religion, be it Islam or Christianity, irrelevant to their daily...

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  • Imam Anwar Muhaimin

    NPR Asks How & Why Blackamericans Are Drawn To Islam

    National Public Radio recently did an interview of Imam Anwar Muhaimin of Masjid Quba here in Philadelphia [ma sha'Allah, nice picture Imam Anwar!], my wife, as well as yours truly, asking how and why Blackamericans, despite the phenomenons of 9/11 and more recently, the FBI...

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  • Bebop, Islam and the Promise of a Dignified Existence in Jim Crow America

    Bebop, Islam and the Promise of a Dignified Existence in Jim Crow America

    The following is a short paper that I wrote on the relation between Islam and Blackness and the draw between the two back in the early part of the 20th Century. I hope to have the time to post a few more ruminations, but at...

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  • Raouche-Rocks

    Why Polemics Are A Waste Of Time

    A good brother recently brought to my attention a disturbing video of a Muslim openly bashing and berating a group of Nation of Islam men standing on a street corner in the UK. I watched the video with a sense of shock and disgust. The...

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