Donna Auston is known of late for starting the twitter campaign #BlackMuslimRamadan which was initially created as a “crowd-sourced digital journey through black Muslim life” during this past Ramadan. As Ms. Auston comments in her op-ed for Religion News Service —
“… in spite of the fact that the very first Muslims in the United States were black African slaves brought to these shores as captive laborers, and in spite of the fact that before 1965, “Muslim” in the U.S. was virtually synonymous with black people, representations of African-American Muslim life in popular media and scholarly literature are still relatively few and far between.”
