Would it come as a surprise that Denmark was once the 7th largest slave dealing nation that participated in the transatlantic slave trade? For some reason, there seems to be a void […]
Abu Kwanza: Anti-blackness in Denmark
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“They had the audacity to ask me if I was Muslim, when they saw me – a black woman in niqab” – Report on the experiences of Black British Muslims
This report has been conducted for the sole purpose of improving the condition of Black people to further unite the British Muslim Ummah. Black Muslim Forum Report 2020 Executive Summary 100 self-identified […]
Rise in Power Nathaniel Woods
This was the poem our brother Nathaniel Woods left behind which has been published on The North Star: “Had they and I but metAt some old residence in EnselyHad they put their […]
“Blacklash” and the case of Asayel Slay: Injustice and hypocrisy in Saudi Arabia
Nicki Minaj and Saudi’s attempts to modernise In July 2019, world famous rapper Nicki Minaj pulled out of her planned headline performance at Jeddah World Fest music festival in Saudi Arabia due […]
Rashid Rose: The over-representation of Blacks in the Mental Health System
The majority of Caucasians believed Africans to be inferior (Billinsley 1968) with the Encyclopaedia Britannia (1884) defined the word Negro as referring to Africans who “occupied the lowest position of the evolutionary […]
Rashid Rose: The Two Processes for Reparations
The need for Reparations has been debated over the past decade with some degree of conviction and common sense but a limited amount of success. This discussion is taking place in the Caribbean, […]
Abu Kwanza: The downplay of anti-blackness within the Muslim community
Unconscious bias, a subject in psychological studies where people associate negative things with blackness and positive things with whiteness, is a concept that has been well documented. The nature of this perception […]
Christal Williams: Black and Muslim in Birmingham
My name is Christal and I am born and raised in Birmingham in the UK. I am a secondary English teacher by profession and in my spare time, I like to read […]
