During a recent interview, singer SZA shared why she stopped wearing hijab and why she now regrets it.
Did you know they were among the faithful?
While Muslims wear their religion on their sleeves, it doesn't mean that the sleeve can't be chic.
What do Erykah Badu, LL Cool J and Jay-Z have in common?
They have to deal with stereotyping but escape most of the harassment faced by Arabs.
(Crain’s) — On a recent moonlit night on Frederick Douglass Boulevard just south of 116th Street, in the shadows of a spiffy new condo building called the Livmor, the crowd for a Ramadan prayer at Aqsa mosque spilled out onto the sidewalk. Two dozen West African women in bright-colored head wraps knelt on a blue […]
(New York Times) — NPR has terminated its contract with Juan Williams, one of its senior news analysts, after he made comments about Muslims on the Fox News Channel. NPR said in a statement that it gave Mr. Williams notice of his termination on Wednesday night. The move came after Mr. Williams, who is also […]
(Amsterdam News) — “We have to be able to decode what’s happening and realize that this is religious intolerance on one hand, and it’s [also] good ol’ red-blooded American racial and ethnic bias on the other hand,” said Imam Al-Hajj Talib Abdur-Rashid, sitting in his office at the Mosque of Islamic Brotherhood Inc. in Harlem. […]
By Charing Ball Apparently there are a lot of people who still believe that President Obama is a Muslim. This little tidbit of foolishness comes courtesy of a poll released by the Pew Research Center, which suggested that 12 per cent, or one in five Americans surveyed, believe that Obama is an undercover brother – […]