Category: Blog
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#BuyBlackandMuslim during COVID-19
As salaamu alaykum! Hope you are all staying safe and healthy in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic. In most US cities, non-essential businesses have been asked to close in order to reduce the spread of COVID-19. Although this is a necessary tactic for public health purposes, business closures have a negative impact on sales…
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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 scale”. Accordingly, it was legally and socially permissible for slave owners to subject slaves to any type of physical force (Myrdal 1962). After…