The Quad-City Symphony Orchestra will present “Omar’s Journey,” a concert opera adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize-winning work by Rhiannon Giddens and Michael Abels, Saturday and Sunday, Feb. 1 and 2.

When they entered our neighborhood, they took our young men,' Muazzez Kerricha tells Anadolu, breaking decades of silence on ...

Omar ibn Said wrote the only known autobiography in Arabic of an enslaved person in the United States. Here is his life, in art and history. The new work, co-written by folk artist Rhiannon ...

Mbaye Lo‘s new book on Omar Ibn Said follows two decades of sharing his life story This was a story too remarkable to stay in the classroom and academic journals. For nearly two decades, Duke ...

While we are celebrating Black History Month, I thought I would write about the history of Muslims who came to the United ...

Representative Ilhan Omar’s Republican colleagues are once again calling for her to be deported because they don’t understand ...