Black Muslim Woman
12/10/2018 | 1m 48sVideo has Closed Captions
BLACK MUSLIM WOMAN, a film by Mikel Aki'leh.
From the first line, “I feel like I’m on fire,” Mikel Aki’leh delivers a powerful poem on beauty and blackness. Against a rhythmic score, Aki’leh enumerates the ways in which she’s been told that her black skin is “a sign of dirt” to others — and how she ultimately finds strength and confidence through her faith.
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Muslim Youth Voices is a production of the Center for Asian American Media. Funding provided by the Doris Duke Foundation for Islamic Art's Building Bridges Program and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
Black Muslim Woman
12/10/2018 | 1m 48sVideo has Closed Captions
From the first line, “I feel like I’m on fire,” Mikel Aki’leh delivers a powerful poem on beauty and blackness. Against a rhythmic score, Aki’leh enumerates the ways in which she’s been told that her black skin is “a sign of dirt” to others — and how she ultimately finds strength and confidence through her faith.
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorship♪ WOMAN: I feel like I'm on fire.
♪ (glass shattering) My skin to the world is a sign of dirt.
When I was six, I spent 30 minutes trying to scrub the black off my face.
♪ Little girl looks me in the eyes and says, "I'm sorry God made you so dark."
It only made me want to scrub harder.
My family stares at my features and forget that we come from the same water.
They told us stories about how girls like us drowned themselves in the Nile because no one would marry them.
My aunts told me that the best I could do was marry an Arab man and have a daughter that looks nothing like me.
There were times when I walked past a masjid because I was so sad about how lonely I could feel praying next to someone.
Sometimes you need to move in order for you to be happy.
There will be times when you ask God why.
Don't worry.
God answers.
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Muslim Youth Voices is a production of the Center for Asian American Media. Funding provided by the Doris Duke Foundation for Islamic Art's Building Bridges Program and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.