Join Wasat online this Juneteenth

“Emancipation—which is what Juneteenth celebrates—is not liberation. Emancipation is a release from bondage. Liberation is not just freedom, but freedom earned. The truth is that Black people shattered the shackles that chained them. The Civil War was the most successful slave rebellion in human history, and it was the culmination of centuries of African struggles against the slave trade itself. African Muslims drew on their knowledge and faith to pioneer this freedom struggle in West Africa and in the Americas. We reclaim their stories today so that they may serve to light our path to spiritual and social liberation.”

Watch and learn, 5pm PST / 8pm EST on Wasat's FB Live - facebook.com/wearewasat

This event is co-sponsored by MAPS and @globalmuslimlife

Dr. Rudolph Bilal Ware is a historian of Africa and Islam. He earned his PhD in history in 2004 from the University of Pennsylvania where he was trained in African History, African-American History, and Islamic Intellectual History. He is currently an associate professor in the department of History at the University of California-Santa Barbara, and the founder and director of the Initiative for the Study of Race, Religion, and Revolution (ISRRAR). His first book, The Walking Qur’an: Islamic Education, Embodied Knowledge, and History in West Africa, explores the history of a thousand years of Quran schooling in the region. He is the author of multiple articles on Muslim anti-slavery movements in Africa and the Atlantic World, and his most recent book, Jihad of the Pen, explores Sufi thought in West Africa.