NPR: Divine Law or Sexism?
News & Notes, July 12, 2007 · Women play key roles in religious communities but some faiths aren’t comfortable letting them lead.
Rabbi Capers Funnye, Chief Rabbi of Beth Shalom Ethiopian Hebrew Congregation in Chicago; Bonnie Hunter, pastor of the Friendship Church Outreach Ministries in Capitol Heights, Maryland; and Precious Rasheeda Muhammad, a writer and lecturer on Islam in America, talk about women and faith.
[Correction: During the show Precious misstated that Yaphett El-Amin was the first black state senator in United States history. She meant to say that El-Amin was the first female Muslim state representative in United States history.]
NPR: What It Means to Be Black and Muslim in America
News & Notes, August 23, 2005 · Ed Gordon takes a closer look at what it means to be both black and Muslim in America. He’s joined by Imam Ghayth Nur Kashif, resident imam for Masjidush-Shura in southeast Washington, D.C., and Precious Rasheeda Muhammad, author, publisher and lecturer on Islam in America.
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Audio Essay by Muhammad (6:55)
Listen to Precious Rasheeda Muhammad, founder and president of the Journal of Islam in America Press and founder of the Islam in America conferences at Harvard Divinity School, read from her essay “Oh Allah, Operate on Us!” Islam and the Legacy of American Slavery, which appears as part of a collection of essays Taking Back Islam: American Muslims Reclaim Their Faith, edited by Michael Wolfe.