Month: November 2025

The Imam Hidden Behind Bars: My 2008 X-change w/ Jamil Al-Amin

  In 2008, I was a young interdisciplinary graduate student living in New Mexico working on my thesis, trying to make sense of the world through the lens of comparative mythology, Black liberation movements, and preservation of Indigenous memory through oral transmission of knowledge. That summer I wrote a letter to a man whose voice..

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The Piscataway DNA Project: Re-Tracing the Bloodlines of Maryland’s Forgotten Alliance

Summary: This piece marks the nine-year anniversary of my return to Moyaone — the sacred Piscataway burial grounds — and the passing of my grandmother on November 14, 2016. It continues the work of the Piscataway DNA Project, tracing the Beaven–Brent–Dorsett–Culver lines back to the earliest English–Piscataway alliance in 17th-century Maryland. Drawing on DNA findings,..

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