Stand Your Ground: School Bullies in America

The National Center for Education Statistics reported that in 2009 twenty-nine percent of all American students’ ages 12 to 18 were bullied in ...

Halimah Jordan

Feb 17, 2016

“My Fellow African Americans, We Are Royal”

“You are a royal. You come from a royal background,” the Spruce Street neighborhood boys were told in Smitty’s barbershop when they came ...

Sheikh Anwar Muhaimin

Feb 17, 2016

African American Muslims Fighting Islamophobia

African American Muslims have a role to play when it comes to the widespread Islamophobia (an irrational fear of Islam) that is prevalent ...

Faheem Shuaibe

Feb 10, 2016

Conflict Kitchen: Knowing Countries Through Food

Raya Al-Jadir

Feb 09, 2016

We’re all aware of food’s power over human beings. It is often used as an alternative medicine or to boost energy, sharpen memory, ...

Money & Happiness: The Twins of Life?

Kamal Badr

Feb 08, 2016

Money and happiness are seen as the twins of life’s comfort and harmony, and can play a distinctive role in enhancing man’s life, ...

“The Muslim-ness” of African Americans

Mahasin D. Shamsid-Deen

Feb 07, 2016

An important aspect of all early African American Islamic movements was their emphasis of themselves as distinctly different from other African Americans, and ...

Love in the Time of Quraysh (Part 2)

Zainab bint Younus

Feb 04, 2016

Read Part One The Messenger of Allah (PBUH) had emigrated to Medinah with the remaining members of his young Ummah… except for his ...

Are We Going Back to the Nazi Era?

Nichola Taylor

Jan 28, 2016

Just recently, I was watching a program about when the British allies liberated Bergen-Belsen death camp in Germany shortly before the end of ...

How Muslim Students Are Rated at US Schools

Mahasin D. Shamsid-Deen

Jan 25, 2016

A close friend and Educator, (who passed away recently) and I used to have lively discussions about how America’s public school instructors, especially ...