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  • May 17, 2020May 17, 2020

Oral history project preserves stories of black Muslim seniors amid pandemic

Aysha Khan April 17, 2020 (RNS) — As the coronavirus outbreak takes a disproportionately deadly toll on seniors and African Americans, a new oral history initiative aims to train black Muslim you

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