Even before the United States was founded, tens of thousands of Muslims were already here, captured in West Africa, and brought to colonial America in chains. Host Asma Khalid tells the surprising story of one of these people, a Muslim man named Mamadou Yarrow, who, after 45 years of enslavement and negotiated his way to freedom.
A federal immigration file shows how early border laws shaped the Muslim experience in the U.S.
A photograph reveals the rise of Black Muslim life in northern cities during the Great Migration.
A Lebanese homesteader recalls the building of one of the first mosques on the Great Plains.
