Precious Rasheeda Muhammad

Author. Award-winning speaker. Historian. Publisher. Peacemaker. Internationally known for building community through history.
"Me, We!" —Muhammad Ali

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There is so much crazy going on in the world right now. I'm #praying for #peace, #love, #mercy, and #justice for all.

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The Negro Act of 1740

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refuse to let go of your humanity

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"Our humanity is not negotiable." —Bernice A. King

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I feel deeply distressed about the president's threats to destroy an entire civilization by this evening. Can we all just come together as human beings and acknowledge this is wrong, no matter what civilization it is? Does not the heart and soul reject this? All life is precious.

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Every single human life is a world.

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Five generations of my family would disagree, as would our enslaved African-born Muslim ancestors who helped build this nation and those before them who were here even before the births of the founding fathers. Belonging can no more be stripped from us than it can be defined.

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Muslims don't belong in American society.

Pluralism is a lie.

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"O Allah, I seek Your protection from anxiety and grief. I seek Your protection from inability and laziness. I seek Your protection from cowardice and miserliness, and I seek Your protection from being overcome by debt and being overpowered by men."

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Bilali Muhammad

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"[T]he world is all messed up. The nation is sick. Trouble is in the land; confusion all around…. But I know, somehow, that only when it is dark enough, can you see the stars.” —Dr. King

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rival geographies

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We have lived long enough to see really terrible things with our own eyes, when it was once only through the lens of history.

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Seneca Village, 1856

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The People's Grocery

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Civil Rights Act of 1866

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Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)
U.S. Supreme Court Case

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Once the norm is established, people stop noticing it.
What's the norm?
Is it right?

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"a fear of too much justice"

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Abolition Democracy

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Radical Reconstruction

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Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857)
US Supreme Court Case