In this episode of On The Square, Sapelo Square’s Executive Director Latasha Rouseau talks with Tiffany Green-Abdullah, author of The Bean Pie: A Remembering of Our Family’s Faith, Fortitude and Forgiveness.Tiffany starts by sharing how her gr

On THe Square EP16 - Serving Community Through Civic Engagement

Jan 15th, 2024 1h 20m

In this episode of On The Square, Sapelo Square’s Executive Director Latasha Rouseau sits down with Salima Suswell.Salima is the CEO and President of Evolve Solutions and founder of the Philadelphia Ramadan and Eid Fund.Salima shares how her

On The Square EP 15-Getting Real: Writing Black American Muslim Life in the Nation and Sunni Tradition

Sep 28th, 2023 46m 48s

In this episode of On The Square, Sapelo Square’s Senior Editor Ambata Kazi talks with Aaliyah Bilal, author of the new book, Temple Folk, a collection of short stories portraying the lived experiences of Black Muslims grappling with faith, fam

On the Square Episode 14 - Black Like Me: Adding Color to Our Highest Courts

Aug 3rd, 2023 39m 12s

Juvaria Khan is the founder and executive director of the Appellate Project, a non-profit that strives to empower law students of color to not only work, but thrive in the appellate field. Appellate courts, (also referred to as the court of app

On the Square EP13 - The Jabbari Lincoln Files

Jun 25th, 2023 26m 10s

On this episode of On The Square, Sapelo Square’s News Editor Dr. Nisa Muhammad speaks with Yaya Fanusie, creator of The Jabbari Lincoln Files. The Jabbari Lincoln Files is an international spy thriller presented in a 10-episode podcast series.

On The Square EP 12 - The Fight to SAVE Our Black Boys

May 17th, 2023 1h 5m

In this episode of On The Square, it’s all about our Black boys! Sapelo Square’s Executive Director, Latasha Rouseau, speaks with Atiba Saleem Jones, the founder and Executive Director of SAVE Institute, which offers middle and high school prog

On the Square EP 11 – Preserving the Legacy: Black Creatives Making a Way

Apr 26th, 2023 32m 11s

Aïdah Aliyah Rasheed, Special Projects Lead sits down with Bee Walker, photographer, filmmaker and one-half of Paper Monday. Within this episode, Aïdah and Bee talk about the beginning stages behind the collaborative project between Sapelo Squa

Sapelo’s Top Ten of 2021

Mar 15th, 2022 1h 17m

In this episode of On The Square, our host Dr. Su’ad is joined by members of the Sapelo Squad for a 2021 Year-in-Review. On The Square’s theme music was created by Fanatik OnBeats.Artwork for On The Square was created by Scheme of Things Graph

Being Black and Muslim in the World

Feb 8th, 2022 1h 9m

In this episode of On The Square, we talk with Gilary Massa-Machado a community activist from Canada, Tahir Fuzile Sitoto, a lecturer from South Africa, and Ismael Lea South, a community and youth consultant from United Kingdom on the differenc

Muslims in the Caribbean

Oct 6th, 2021 1h

In this episode of On The Square, we talk with Dr. Aliyah Khan, author of Far from Mecca: Globalizing the Muslim Caribbean, about the deep Muslim history of the Caribbean and how the Muslim experience is shaped by the complex racial dynamics of

Race, Sex and the Ummah

Sep 10th, 2021 1h

In this episode On The Square, we talk about sex! Sapelo Square Senior Editor Su’ad Abdul Khabeer chats with The Village Auntie, Angelica Lindsey-Ali, a certfied sexual health educator and expert on all things sex, intimacy and womanhood from a

On Freedom and Self-Determination

Aug 3rd, 2021 1h 13m

In this episode On The Square commemorates Black August. Sapelo Square Senior Editor Su’ad Abdul Khabeer speaks with Jihad Abdulmumit, community activist, playwright, freedom fighter, and chairperson of the National Jericho Movement about freed

Muslim Artifacts at the National Museum of African American History and Culture

Jul 6th, 2021 41m 5s

In this episode, Sapelo Square History Editor Zaheer Ali speaks with Tulani Salahu-Din, museum specialist at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture, about Muslim artifacts at the museum and the importance of p

“Telling Our Own Stories: Black Muslim Writers”

Jun 1st, 2021 43m 50s

In this episode, Sapelo Square Arts and Culture Editor Ambata Kazi-Nance speaks with author and educator Amani-Nzinga Jabbar about her book, I Bear Witness, the craft of writing, writing about difficult subject matter, and her experiences as a

Umi’s Archive

May 4th, 2021 42m 41s

In this episode, Sapelo Square History Editor Zaheer Ali speaks with Dr. Su’ad Abdul Khabeer about her latest work, Umi’s Archive, a multimedia research project that digs deep into the life of her mother, Amina Amatul Haqq (neé Audrey Weeks), t

Black Maternal Health and the Black Midwifery Tradition

Apr 6th, 2021 53m 13s

In this episode, Sapelo Square Arts and Culture Editor Ambata Kazi-Nance speaks with renowned midwife and doula educator Shafia Monroe about the historic Black midwife tradition in the United States and how contemporary birthworkers are impleme

Being Muslim on Turtle Island

Mar 15th, 2021 56m 4s

In this episode our host, Dr. Su’ad Abdul Khabeer talks with Siddeeqah Sharif Fichman an Afro-Native Muslim and community advocate and Hazel Gómez, a faith-based community organizer, about Being Muslim on Turtle Island. This deep discussion dig

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