In what was originally supposed to be an hour long conversation about intersectionality, I sit down with my special guest and good friend Jeyda Muhammed, a young African American Muslim woman. Together we delve deep into the history of Islam in the Americas starting with the enslaved Africans brought to various plantations, we then talk about the Nation Of Islam and the impact it had on not just Jeyda's grandparents but the African American community as a whole, all while name dropping a few African American Muslim celebrities. Jeyda also shares her experiences growing up as a Black Muslimah leading up to her taking part in the Miss Unity pageant at her university where her win secured her place as the first Muslim to win the crown. Towards the end of the podcast we also addressed being Black in Muslim spaces vs Muslim in Black spaces and what it means to be an African American Muslim Woman
