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Hey Artist Dude!: It’s Okay To Have a Day Job…Really
It’s okay to embrace your reality. You are still an artist even if you never actually make a living from your art. In fact one could argue that your art may be better for it.
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Dr. Michael Gomez: Islam in the African-American Experience
Dr. Michael Gomez picks up where Dr. Diouf leaves off by focusing on early 20th century Islam in America and the pseudo-Islamic movements in the early 1900’s including the progenitors of the Nation of Islam and a young Elijah Poole (later to become Elijah Muhammad).
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Dr. Sylviane Diouf Podcast: Islam in the African-American Experience
A must listen for Muslims and Non-Muslims alike on the presence of Islam in America beginning in the 18th century. Long before the migration of Muslims from the Middle East and South Asia there was a thriving Islamic presence in America consisting of these early Americans.
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Spoken Soul Album
The latest album from Spoken Word Poet Brother Dash. 8 tracks on life, trials, triumphs, loss, redemption, community, family and love. A very personal and vulnerable album not originally meant for a commercial release.
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Album Review
Check out the review of my album Spoken Soul by Zaufishan Iqbal. Zaufishan is an artist and writer based in [...]
It’s okay to embrace your reality. You are still an artist even if you never actually make a living from your art. In fact one could argue that your art may be better for it.
Dr. Michael Gomez picks up where Dr. Diouf leaves off by focusing on early 20th century Islam in America and the pseudo-Islamic movements in the early 1900’s including the progenitors of the Nation of Islam and a young Elijah Poole (later to become Elijah Muhammad).
A must listen for Muslims and Non-Muslims alike on the presence of Islam in America beginning in the 18th century. Long before the migration of Muslims from the Middle East and South Asia there was a thriving Islamic presence in America consisting of these early Americans.
The latest album from Spoken Word Poet Brother Dash. 8 tracks on life, trials, triumphs, loss, redemption, community, family and love. A very personal and vulnerable album not originally meant for a commercial release.
Check out the review of my album Spoken Soul by Zaufishan Iqbal. Zaufishan is an artist and writer based in [...]
Fish, Grits and Couscous: Islam and The African-American Experience
The following are some web quality stills from the event held at [...]
…But what Black Muslim does Qawwali? How many Latino Muslims do Arabic nasheeds? White British Muslims have a 100 year old history of Muslim hymns written and composed by White converts! If you are a Chicano Muslim sister that does devotional odes from your cultural reality and not Pakistan’s or Egypt’s then what (where) is your space?
This poem was inspired by an old 1980’s hip-hop record in terms of its style (YouTube the title). The content however was inspired by a conversation I had in a hallway after one of my performances where a brother was talking to me about how the youth were involved in gangs, drug selling and even pimping out teenage girls. So I wrote this piece.
