Inna lilahi wa inna lilaihi rajeoun From Allah we come and to Allah we return As a child of the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s-1970s, Imam Mahdi was born in 1950 in Norfolk, Virginia, the state with the dubious distinction of having the most enslaved Africans in the country before Emancipation. His grandparents raised him in Richmond, VA, the …
Witnesses to Genocide
Some events that occurred on specific dates are so embedded into the collective consciousness of the American people that each calendar year, we recall how our individual and national consciousness was impacted. Usually, such occurrences take place on American soil, like the 911 bombing of the World Trade Center’s twin towers or the January 6th insurrection attempt to block the …
Social Justice Matters: The Shooting of Aysenur Eygi, Echoes From Three Continents and Eras
Aysenur Eygi, 26, was intentionally shot in the head and killed by members of the Israeli Defense Force on September 6, 2024, as she participated in a weekly non-violent protest against illegal Israeli settlements in the West Bank towns of Beita and Nablus, Palestine. Aysenur was an American citizen of Turkish descent and a volunteer for the International Solidarity Movement …
