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 […]
Rise in Power Nathaniel Woods
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
Shukri Abdi: We demand justice
Background Action Model Letters Background The body of Shukri Abdi, a Somali refugee was on Thursday 22nd June recovered from the River Irwell at midnight in Lancashire, Bury. The official report […]
Shukri Mohamed: On Black Muslim intersectionality and Mental Health
Statistics demonstrate that one in four adults experiences at least one diagnosable mental health problem in any given year and mental health problems represent the largest single cause of disability in the […]
