Tag Archives: BLACK

57 years ago today, Malcolm X delivered a historic speech that would introduce a valuable reality to our collective vocabulary...

In this short article, I would like to share some historical notes about Islam’s first connections with Sub-Saharan (i.e. Black) Africa.

"The Black Muslim heroes of old were dignified, involved and an inseparable part of the society's fabric at all levels"

Anti-Blackness exists within our mosques, and Black Muslims are being marginalised at the hands of others in the Muslim community in the UK.

“Islamic films” … ever thought you’d hear those words? Well Canadian storyteller Boonaa Mohammed makes them for fun!

In this Face to Face episode, Fahad Ansari discusses some pertinent lessons from the wisdom of Al-Hajj Malik el-Shabbaz, more popularly known as Malcolm X, rahimahullah.

ʿAbd Allāh Thomson dispels common myths about Muslims and so-called "integration".

Kanye West stooped to new lows when he suggested that 400 years of slavery was a “choice”

Reflecting on Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates “When I finished reading this book, I realised that I’m still actually quite racist.” These were the words spoken to me by a white doctor of Anthropology who has spent her ...

Frederick Douglass, the infamous runaway slave who became a strong orator of the abolitionist movement, highlights in his autobiography a moment during his youth when he lived with his master’s brother’s family. Frederick approached the mother of the house, Sophia ...