Donna Auston: African-American Women and Islam

Most discussions on Islam and Women (especially Black women) rarely feature the subjects themselves speaking on their own historical present experience. Ms. Auston presents a cogent and well documented talk on the role of Black women in the American Islamic experience from not merely the social but spiritual point of view. Read More …

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). Read More …