06/19/2021
Happy Juneteenth!
Juneteenth is now a federal holiday, and on this day we commemorate the liberation of the remaining enslaved Africans in Texas, who were finally told the news that they were free in 1865, 2 years after the emancipation proclamation was enacted.
The first Muslims in America were enslaved Africans, and the progression of civil rights in America would not be what it is today without Black Muslims.
To this day, we are still fighting for Black liberation, and our Black Muslim Sisters especially, are still facing intersectional systems of oppression.
Notable names such as Malcolm X to today’s Representative Illhan Omar, show us that Black Muslims are at the forefront of policy & liberation movements, and as an ummah we must work to uplift their voices within the Muslim community as well as outside of it.
