MuslimMatters’ Editor-in-Chief Hena Zuberi talks to C. Islaah Abd’al-Rahim and Sheikh Muhammad Ibn Heshaam Jaaber, two African American Muslim elders, on lesser known and focused-on aspects...
Whether we like to admit it or not, the environment we live in has a very profound and sometimes subtle effect upon our beliefs, thoughts, and...
In Malcolm X’s Letter from Mecca, he said, “America needs to understand Islam, because this is the one religion that erases from its society the race...
In 2017, over 15,500 Americans were killed by guns, a 3% increase from 2016. That’s 15,549 reasons to put common sense gun control in place. We...
I see many bright young African American Muslims struggle finding their place in the community. Often, our place in a community is determined by how others...
A few nights ago, a little boy went missing from our community. It was a horrible, cold night that his mother spent in the masjid where...
By Kyle Ismail “America is unique among western major democracies in that…a sizable number of its Muslims are native born converts…We are already a part of...
To be Muslim in America is to be a direct beneficiary of the gorgeous triumph of Black Muslims since the inception of the young nation. On...
by Sana H. Aaser [dropcap size=small]W[/dropcap]hile Muslims were celebrating the final days of Ramadan and Eid, two unarmed black men – Philando Castile and Alton Sterling...
‘And here is the tragedy. Muslims, African-Americans, and other oppressed groups learn that suffering is something they must endure “for the greater good.” So private abuses...