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Identity and Power: Lessons from Professor Kehinde Andrews’ Black Studies Course
Over the last several weeks, I’ve had the privilege of studying under Professor Kehinde Andrews, whose Black Studies course has reconnected me to a deeper understanding of history, identity, and politics. It wasn’t just an academic course—it was connecting with history that is colonised and often erased.
Black Muslims in America before Malcolm X
The presence of Black Muslims in America is popular opinion is inextricably linked to the Nation of Islam and Malcolm X; however Michael Gomez’s book ‘Black Crescent’ corrects that presumption and details the long history of Islam in the Americas.
The Birth of Muslim Hip Hop
It was a great pleasure to interview the legends of UK Muslim Hip Hop - Mecca2Medina. Rakin Fetuga and Ishmael Lea South are founding members of this groundbreaking Hip Hop group which was formed in 1996.
A female-led whirling dervish group based in Afghanistan, is reclaiming the country’s deep-rooted Sufi heritage.