Raising Proud Black Muslim Children
Carefree Black Girl is a term that originated on Tumblr. Zeba Blay, Voices Cultural Writer at The Huffington Post, became the first person to use the phrase as a hashtag on Twitter in May 2013. It is a term that is used to celebrate Black girls and women. It has become a cute Instagram caption… Continue reading Four ways I’m raising a #CareFreeBlackMuslimGirl
When I was in sixth grade, my community opened a Muslim school, which I attended with my siblings until I graduated. My mother also taught at the school. We were one of the founding families and one of the handfuls of Black families who attended. I'm not going to detail every racial incident or microaggressions we encountered but only highlight a few.
Have you seen “Colored Purple”? Did your mom watch Oprah? They don’t know that some of my earliest memories are of sitting in between my mother’s legs as she neatly cornrowed my hair while Auntie O talked in the background. They don’t know. I had a Jheri curl. I watched “Coming to America” at… Continue reading They Don’t Know
