By blackdawahnetwork 4 years ago (Editorial note: Black August commemorates the Black revolutionary history of resistance to white supremacy. It is a time when Black Marxists, following in the footsteps of Black revolutionaries like George Jackson, founder of the Black guerilla family, and Huey Newton, founder of the Black Panther Party for...
Read MoreThis is part of a transcript between Professor Shareef Muhammad and Hakeem Muhammad on the Black Dawah Network in the discussion titled “Looking Towards the Prophetic Biography for Black Liberation.) The Prophetic biography is the story of an orphan child who was brought up in a harsh and volatile...
Read More(During this Black History month, we will look at important Black Muslim historical figures and what we can learn from their lives to improve our community) Lady Fidda, an Ethiopian Muslim was once on a three day fast with other companions of the Prophet Muhammad, pbuh. Yet, each day...
Read MoreThe Black Dawah Network is an Islamic outreach network that seeks to introduce Islam to African-Americans, particularly in depressed urban areas. We also seek to reinvigorate the Black Muslim tradition. What is the Black Muslim tradition? It is the legacy of fighting to bring justice for the oppressed descendants...
Read MoreEducation and literacy were always political for black people because they were illegal. Enslaved Africans were not permitted to read and write. Punishment for this could include beatings or maiming. The Bible was the only book sanctioned by the slave owners and even then its reading by slaves was...
Read MoreIn his lecture, What is the Religion for Black People, Ismael Saleem provides an Islamic critique of Afrocentrism. Ismael Saleem states: If they believe that the Kemetic Laws were so superior, they should be following that themselves. They should listen to Osiris and Isis and they should be praying...
Read MoreThose that turn (to Allah) in repentance; that serve Him, and praise Him; that wander in devotion to the cause of Allah, that bow down and prostrate themselves in prayer; that enjoin good and forbid evil, and observe the limit set by Allah;- (These do rejoice). So proclaim the...
Read MoreTo the Muslims of Roxbury, we have streets named after Malcolm X, but are we true to continuing his Islamic agenda of addressing his ‘first responsibility’. What did Malcolm X tell Said Ramadan in 1965 was his first responsibility? Malcolm X responded that being an African American, he felt...
Read MoreMalcolm X, a name that still shines bright, more so today than ever before. The name stands synonymous with combating the social injustices facing Black America. The message of Malcolm X had a deep impact on the most oppressed community in Northern Hemisphere: the African-Americans. The Black Dawah Network...
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