Freedom does not keep well. It spoils if left unattended. Someone has to notice before it curdles, before it slips away.
Freedom is best served daily
Nation of Islam
Tuning the religio-racial mind
The religio-racial metaphysical imagination, however varied, was particular to the conditions of Black people. The goal was to detach them…
Patriarchy without fatherhood in the Nation of Islam
In this forum’s considerations of fathers as God-like and God as father-like, the NOI, as well as the Black American…
Solitary confinement and the Nation of Islam
Prevailing understandings about race in prison often group black prisoners together, only separating them by gang affiliation. Yet, our essay…
Besides
I love the story about Shakeela Hassan. I just told it again last night, in fact. In the late 1950s,…
Race, orthodoxy, and “real” Islam
More than anything, the Good (Orthodox) Muslim-Bad (Black) Muslim paradigm reveals the media’s seemingly willful ignorance of the longstanding diversity…
Farrakhan’s fading limelight
David Lepeska’s New York Times article “Farrakhan Using Libyan Crisis to Bolster His Nation of Islam” brought the once prominent…