Introducing: This is the first article for the Multifaceted Muslim series, where I’ll be interviewing black Muslims to talk about their career experiences, upbringing and identity as a Black Muslim in America! […]
The Multifaceted Muslim Series: In conversation with Bariq Cobbs
Persisting in the face of structural racism and Islamophobia
America’s history is riddled with structural racism that has persisted until the present day. Although segregation is no longer legally enforced, it is embedded in the country’s fabric in ways that adversely […]
The History of the Black American Muslim community
Take a walk through any Philadelphia neighbourhood, and I can almost guarantee that you will see evidence of Philadelphia’s black Muslim community. Perhaps you will see a group of women wearing full […]
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, […]
Ishaque Suubi Møller: 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 […]
Malignant evil: The reality of anti-blackness in the Israeli State
A one year old Black baby “In January 2014, an Israeli man walked up to an African refugee carrying her one-year-old baby in downtown Tel Aviv, and stabbed the baby in the head three times. […]
An Interview with Sadiyah Sabree: On Identity and Race
BMF caught up with LSE and Columbia graduate Sadiyah Sabree on racial politics, travel and navigating through life as a black Muslim woman. Identity Where are you from town/city/country? Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA What […]
