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“The child who is not embraced by the village will burn it down to feel its warmth.” African Proverb This African proverb highlights the importance
Join the MANA Network and help us achieve the following goals:
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We to invite you to be part of something truly special – our 99 Hearts Campaign. At MANA, we are dedicated to supporting, strengthening, and empowering the African-American Muslim community. We are looking for 99 individuals whose hearts are aligned with our mission to join hands with us as monthly donors.
Let’s put our hand and hearts together!
The benefits of networking are found in every industry and organization. Networking achieves the objectives of building community relationships to strengthen our capacity. Let’s build and strengthen our capacity as African-American Muslims by building and strengthening our network.
To see an America where justice, equality,
and righteousness reigns and where
the legacy of Islam lives on.
To grow and maintain a broad-based alliance of Muslims dedicated to strengthening African American Muslim communities and institutions
Joshua has strong roots in the American Muslim community. He started attending national Muslim youth camps at the age of 12 and continued as a participant, counselor and speaker for over 30 years. Joshua entered the U.S. Air Force in 1995 and served as a Police officer for four years. He was a key contributor in establishing Friday prayer services on base for Muslim military members and went on to serve as an Imam in Goldsboro, NC for several years. After the military, Joshua immersed himself in community activism. He managed the Civil Rights department for the Council on American-Islamic Relations from 2000-2004 and helped oversee a Baltimore Muslim community and neighborhood development project from 2004-2007. Before starting at Duke in July 2018, Joshua worked with youth and families for 11 years at one of the largest Muslim communities in America. His diverse background gives him a unique perspective on many issues and helps him connect with students. He holds a Master’s Degree in Religious Studies and a Doctorate of Ministry from Hartford Seminary.
MANA’s leadership team is comprised of diverse leaders who have a passion for serving the community and come from a wide range of professional and educational backgrounds. Among them are academics, Imams, chaplains, business professionals, community activists, licensed counselors and therapists. The organizations and institutions they represent provide an array of valuable services to the communities they serve.
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• Retired Muslim Prison Chaplain – 40 years combined volunteer and professional service in the jails and prisons of New York.
•HIV/AIDS educator since the early 1990s, co-founder of The African American Muslim Commission on HIV/AIDS, member – the International Muslim Leaders Consultation on HIV/AIDS.
• Spiritual advisor, New York chapter of Millati Islami (a Muslim support network for men and women in recovery from narcotics and alcohol addiction) since the mid-1990s.
• Author, A Muslim Manifesto on Darfur (2006), Healing Indigenous Muslim Families in America (2007), “African and African American Muslims in Early New York ( published essay, 2010) , “Souls on Fire: Christian and Muslim Insurrectionists in 19th Century America” ( paper presented at the Transatlantic Roundtable on Religion and Race, Birkbeck, University of London (2012). Major spokesman as president of the Majlis Ash Shura of New York, in the successful struggle against the NYPD unconstitutional surveillance of the NY and NJ Muslim community (2011-2016).
• 2016 recipient, The Institute for the Black World 21st Century Legacy Award, for service on behalf of people of the African diaspora.
• 2017 Imam Talib doctoral awardee (Honoris Causa) in Islamic Leadership, the National Institute of Muslim Human Service Practitioners.
• Recipient: the Bridge Building Award for Leadership in Community Relations; the Micah Justice Award of The Micah Institute at New York Theological Seminary; the Citizen of the City award of The Police Reform Organizing Project.
• Founding member, A Partnership of Faith in New York City (1992).
• Current member, CORL (the NYC Commission of Religious Leaders, with Christian, Muslim, and Jewish religious leaders).
• 2018 member, the National Steering Committee for The Poor Peoples Campaign in the U.S.
• 2019 recipient, the Shaykh Hassan Cisse Peace Builders Award.
• 2020, faith presenter, Democratic National Convention.
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This is the perfect time to join the MANA Network! We have just started a new cycle of soliciting community input that will help us determine which community needs are most important for MANA will network around and focus on. We are in the process of surveying community leaders and Imams from across America until December 2022. The results of this survey will be presented to the community on February 25th at an online National Town Hall meeting, in shaa Allah. Your input, feedback, and voice are needed to discuss the findings and develop solutions. Registration for the National Town Hall will open December 1, 2022.
MANA will collect information on a national level through listening sessions across America and through research institutions such as the Institute for Social Policy and Understanding.
We will convene leadership sessions that invite all leaders from the community of African American Muslims to develop closer relations with with the hope of including them in networked projects.
We will host town hall session to talk about what’s important, and get feedback on what’s working and what could be better in the African American Muslim Community and creates more community engagement.
“The child who is not embraced by the village will burn it down to feel its warmth.” African Proverb This African proverb highlights the importance
In this interview, on behalf of The Muslim Alliance in North America (MANA), I speak with Brother Bilal Sunni Ali, Amir of The Imam Jamil
The history of Black Muslims in America is one of perseverance and strength. We have been in this country since the Transatlantic Slave Trade and
Muslim Alliance in North America (MANA) is a national network of masjids, Muslim organizations, and individuals committed to working together to address the urgent needs of the African-American Muslim community.