As salaamu alaikum!
What story, reflection, insight, or creative expression has been waiting within you to be shared?
MANA welcomes original submissions for our blog and newsletter. We are seeking thoughtful work that informs, inspires, uplifts, and reflects the experiences, wisdom, creativity, concerns, and accomplishments of the African American Muslim community.
Submissions may include:
- Personal stories and reflections
- Articles and essays
- Community news and initiatives
- Islamic insights and perspectives
- Interviews and historical pieces
- Poetry and other original written expressions
Submission Lengths
Standard articles and essays: 750–1,000 words
Feature or in-depth submissions: 1,200–1,500 words
Poetry: Up to three poems per submission
Please include:
- A brief biography of up to 125 words
- A clear, high-resolution photograph of yourself
- Sources or citations for quotations, statistics, and historical information
- Photo, if any, to use within the article
- Photo credits and written permission for any images you did not create or photograph yourself
Publication Priorities
1. Original, unpublished work
Priority consideration will be given to original submissions that have not previously been published in print or online. If accepted, these works may be published in full on the MANA blog (www.manajustice.org/blog) and featured in the MANA newsletter.
2. Recently published work
MANA will also consider relevant articles published by another source within the past six months. When selected, MANA will provide a brief introduction or excerpt and direct readers to the original publication through a link. Previously published articles will not be reproduced in full on MANA’s platforms without written permission from the copyright holder.
Please include the original article link, publication name, author’s name, and publication date when submitting or recommending previously published work.
Original submissions selected for publication may be edited for clarity, length, grammar, and alignment with MANA’s mission and communications standards.
MANA’s mission is to strengthen the African American Muslim community through connection, collaboration, and shared action. Your voice can help us illuminate the people, ideas, experiences, creativity, and important work within our community.
Share your voice. Tell your story. Offer your insight.
Send your submission, recommendation, or questions to:
submissions@manajustice.org
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Please share this invitation with writers, poets, thinkers, storytellers, and community members whose voices should be heard.
One Response
I watched “Your Mother” x3 last weekend. The filming aspect, drama and the actors were terrific. However, I was very disturbed and disappointed by the film. If I wasn’t Muslim (going on more than 50 years by now) I would have never wanted to become one.
The film had so many stereotypes. Most Americans have never met a Muslim so they are bombarded by the Islamophobic lies they hear on every type of media. And it’s endless. And they beieve we are dangerous and violent. This fim totally reinforced this belief. There is so much violence in the film. You mentioned the mafia. Americans know that the mafia doesn’t represent all Italians because they are familiar with Italians. Think Rambo for example.
So our hero was the Qur’an teacher for the Arab young man? So that just again reinforces the belief that the Qur’an is a book supporting violence. And our hero finds a prostitute to nurse his baby? He couldn’t find a beautiful Muslim sister to nurse his baby? Our hero never hugged his children or showed any deep emotion towards them, just finding milk for the baby! When his son wants to pray fajr, our hero stops the car and tells his son to get out and go pray. It came across as if he was really annoyed.
So why did AMC theaters decide to show the film? Because it shows Muslims as violent and not only supports all the Islamophobic stereotypes but suggests a link to Hamas as equally violent and the justification of what suffering the Palestinians are living every day. Not to mention Sudan. (AMC’s CEO and Chairman and other executives are Jewish. All they also zionists?)