Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Malcolm X helped lead the Nation of Islam until 1964. Truman Moore/Getty Images May 2023 marks 98 years since the birth of civil ...

ANKARA, Turkey – Islamic warriors burst out of Arabia in the seventh century, conquering the great Persian Empire and lands stretching from the Middle East to Spain and Central Asia. With them, they ...

The American stigma around Islam often recognizes Muslim Americans as a recent addition to the nation, failing to recognize Black Muslims arrived with the first slave ship to reach Virginia’s coast in ...

NEW YORK (RNS) — Participants are often surprised when Asad Dandia’s Muslim Harlem tour stops at JC Barbershop in Spanish Harlem — only until he explains it was the headquarters of the country’s first ...

Imam Siraj Wahhaj, an African American Muslim leader and speaker, gave a talk titled “Black History in Islam” on Wednesday, Feb. 28. The event took place in the Student Union Ballroom as part of the ...