CNN has profiled 25 influential Muslims in culture, education, politics, belief and practice, and the media in order to reflect more of the voices of the “diverse and dynamic” U.S. Muslim population.
Writing on MuslimGirl.com, Leah Vernon observes that, while Muslim women’s movements have been making waves online recently, the majority of Muslim women still are not represented in the media, reflecting and propagating the discrimination they face from both outside and within the community.
August 25, 2014 FERGUSON, Mo. — Ever since Michael Brown, a young, unarmed African-American, was shot by a police officer on Aug. 9, various crews have played a part in achieving the tentative peace that has taken hold of the St. Louis suburb once rocked by protests. Some wear black T-shirts with large white letters…
August 1, 2014 For many Muslims born to immigrant parents in this country, our first encounters with an indigenous American Muslim tradition allowed us to see pieces of ourselves in the cultural life and history of the United States. Whether it was watching slaves carry their religion to Southern plantations in the TV series “Roots,” poring over…
July 19, 2014 A revival of the Nation of Islam connection—if it avoids repeating some of the errors of the past—could signal a new era of consciousness in commercial hip-hop. In the late ’80s and early ’90s, a wave of commercial hip-hop artists, like Public Enemy, Poor Righteous Teachers, Brand Nubian, Eric B. & Rakim,…
