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  • September 2, 2025

The Conscious Community is Dead, Or Should Be

On March 1, 2024, Eligio Bishop, known to his followers as ‘Nature Boy,’ was convicted of rape, false imprisonment, and three counts of electronically transmitting nude and sexually explicit material. Nature Boy was arrested in April of 2022 and indicted by a grand jury in July. It took only...

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  • August 9, 2024

The Sophistry of Dr. Ben on Islam

The  book The African Origins Western Religions, Dr. Ben states that “Religion is the deification of culture.” This statement while not without merit is inadequate for understanding  Islam. It is true that all religions have a cultural and historical context from which they emerge. However, this does not always translate to deification. The...

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  • October 2, 2023

Usury: Financial Cancer Eating the Black Community and the Islamic Cure!

    The issue of usury distinguishes Islam among the three major religions. They all put forward their own set of rules to govern the process by which wealth is acquired or distributed. They differ drastically on the subject of usury. While other religions forbade usury initially, Islam is...

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  • October 2, 2023

Zaytuna Professor Dr.Abdullah bin Hamid Ali Undermines Plight of Black America and Betrays Black Muslim Tradition

A Critical Look at Zaytuna Professor Dr.Abdullah bin Hamid Ali’s Denial of Systemic Racism! This updated article can be found at the above url.

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  • April 1, 2023

Ahbir (D-Rose) Reflects On His First Ramadan

  After I was sentenced for murder, I was sent to Stateville Prison. There are so many Muslim brothers here. It was pleasing to my eyesight to witness how Muslims are. Before an indivdiual would even tell me that he’s a Muslim, I would see him being respectful, humble,...

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  • March 26, 2023

The African-American Case For Critical Race Theory

Author Bio: Professor Shareef Muhammad is a co-author of the forthcoming book, The Muslim Guide For Understanding Structural Racism and its Impact on Black America. The book discusses the impact of structural racism on all aspects of Black American lives and presents the African-American Muslim case in favor of critical race theory. He...

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  • March 26, 2023

Religion and the Trenches of the African-American Struggle

Islam has proven to be relevant to all times. It is a living tradition. It is constantly giving the world something to praise, criticize, or engage because it is alive. It is not just in history but it continues to make history. This is not true of Kemet. While...

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  • February 10, 2023

Dr. James White to Dr. Shadee Elmasry: Critical Race Theory & Black American Islam!

In the previous article, Critical Race Theory and the Muslim World by Professor Shareef Muhammad, he explains that critical Race Theory  posits that although de jure racial discrimination was suppressed by Civil Rights legislation it sublimated as de facto discrimination which required an analytical framework designed to expose this. The pioneer of Critical Race...

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  • February 4, 2023

Ismail Royer: You Don’t Know What Critical Race Theory Is! (Islam and CRT Series)

Author Bio: Professor Shareef Muhammad is a co-author of the forthcoming book, The Muslim Guide For Understanding Structural Racism and its Impact on Black America. The book discusses the impact of structural racism on all aspects of Black American lives and presents the African-American Muslim case in favor of critical race theory. He...

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  • February 4, 2023

How Gang Shootouts Led Me to Islam

(Editorial Note: This Ramadan, Black Dawah Network inspired by the Hadith of the man who killed 99 people but who constantly sought Allah’s forgiveness, will be highlighting Ramadan reflections from incarcerated African-American converts to Islam who are serving life or near-life sentences due to murder convictions. They will be...

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