Zaid Shakir - The Black Liberation Movement and Muslim Solidarity

About this lecture

In this powerful two-hour webinar, Imam Zaid Shakir — co-founder of Zaytuna College and president of the Muslim Alliance in North America — delivers a sweeping historical and spiritual analysis of Black liberation in America, from the presence of Muslim enslaved people before the founding of the United States to the structural racism and police brutality of today. Drawing on Islamic teachings, the legacies of Malcolm X and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., and his own decades of community experience, Imam Zaid offers a roadmap for Muslim solidarity with the Black community — grounded in personal spiritual transformation, economic investment in inner-city Muslim institutions, and the building of transracial coalitions for justice.