Black Muslim
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of Black Muslim
An Americanism dating back to 1955–60
Example Sentences
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He underwent a jailhouse conversion to Islam, and became Imam Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin, a guiding force of an insular Black Muslim community.
From Slate ● Dec. 22, 2023
Near the end of Malcolm X’s life, he split with the Black Muslim organization and, after a trip to Mecca, started speaking about the potential for racial unity.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 30, 2022
Although the gaps in admission rates may not seem huge—the biggest was 9.13 percentage points between white non-Muslim applicants and Black Muslim ones—their translation into real numbers and real people is substantial, Ryo says.
From Scientific American ● Mar. 15, 2022
The supervisors noted that these issues aren’t limited to Indigenous families but extend to Black, Muslim and Asian American Pacific Islander communities.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 12, 2022
Across the nation in San Francisco on Tuesday afternoon two policemen discovered a fire beginning in the San Francisco Black Muslim Mosque, and quickly extinguished it.
From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey
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