black ramadan
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Ramadan 2020 and COVID-19: How Will Black Muslims Be Affected?
“During this time, as far as I’m concerned, the entire Earth is a masjid or a place of prayer. And I feel like I should be able to find God wherever I am. And for me, avoiding gatherings is not just respecting and protecting people’s lives, but it is also an act of obedience to…
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Black Ramadan and the Importance of Finding Community in Isolation
When I was a child, my mom would tell me stories about Ramadan in our homeland of Comoros. Some parts weren’t the most idyllic—the idea of fasting under mosquito nets without air conditioning that close to the equator is not my concept of pleasant by any stretch of the imagination. The one part that I…