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Oct 28, 2020

Welcome to part two of…. MUSLIMS ON TV!!!! (now featuring an echo effect, naturally). We’re focusing on a web-series made with an antiracist model from Break the Room, Muslim Anti-Racism Collaborative, and Powderkeg Media. “East of La Brea” focuses on Black and Bengali Muslim women in a context of a rapidly...


Sep 17, 2020

It’s time to talk about…. MUSLIMS ON TV!!! again. We’re joined by the host of the new Netflix science travel show, “Connected,” Latif Nasser. He’s also the Director of Research at Radiolab, so we talk to him about the shift from podcasts to video, the humility needed for science reporting, and his thoughts...


Aug 1, 2020

Eid Mubarak! M Train has wrapped (thanks to BRIC!) and we’re back to our regularly scheduled programming. In this episode, Ahmed talks to poet to Dalia Elhassan about antiblackness, the meaning of Eid when quarantined in an intergenerational family, and the impact of the Khartoum Massacre on how the Sudanese diaspora...


Jul 3, 2020

CW: Police Violence

Abolitionists protests are sweeping the nation as the COVID19 pandemic continues to ravage Black communities. Black Muslims in all fields are at the forefront during this historical moment. We spoke to Black Muslim Covid Coalition member Professor Donna Auston and frontline nurse “Lady” to...


May 8, 2020

Burying a loved one is never easy. But for Muslims New Yorkers, the price of land, gentrification, and ritual practices complicates an already difficult process. As a result, most Muslims in the 5 boroughs tend to be buried hours away from their homes, at cemeteries in Long Island or New Jersey. With the death rate in...