On The Square

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On The Square: Real Talk on Race and Islam in the Americas, is a podcast produced by Sapelo Square in collaboration with the Maydan. Sapelo squad members get “on the square '' with guests in lively and unfiltered conversations on a wide range of real issues from preserving Black art to representation in the appellate court system and how it all relates to being Black and Muslim in the world. Like our award-winning website, On The Square is a digital space where we come together, exchange, celebrate, debate and always keep it real. On The Square has a home on Sapelo Square: https://sapelosquare.com/onthesquare

On The Square – Episode 17 The Bean Pie: A Reclamation of Family History

The Maydan Podcast · On The Square – Episode 17 The Bean Pie: A Reclamation of Family History In this episode of On The Square, Sapelo Square’s Executive Director Latasha Rouseau talks with Tiffany Green-Abdullah,…

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On the Square EP 16 – Serving Community Through Civic Engagement

The Maydan Podcast · On the Square EP 16 – Serving Community Through Civic Engagement In this episode of On The Square, Sapelo Square’s Executive Director Latasha Rouseau sits down with Salima Suswell. Salima is…

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On The Square EP 15-Getting Real: Writing Black American Muslim Life in the Nation & Sunni Tradition

The Maydan Podcast · On The Square EP 15-Getting Real: Writing Black American Muslim Life in the Nation & Sunni Tradition In this episode of On The Square, Sapelo Square’s Senior Editor Ambata Kazi talks…

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On the Square Episode 14 – Black Like Me: Adding Color to Our Highest Courts

The Maydan Podcast · On the Square Episode 14 – Black Like Me: Adding Color to Our Highest Courts Juvaria Khan is the founder and executive director of the Appellate Project, a non-profit that strives…

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On the Square EP 13: The Jabbari Lincoln Files

On this episode of On The Square, Sapelo Square’s News Editor Dr. Nisa Muhammad, speaks with Yaya Fanusie, creator of The Jabbari Lincoln Files. The Jabbari Lincoln Files is an international spy thriller presented in…

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On The Square EP 12 – The Fight to SAVE Our Black Boys

In this episode of On The Square, it’s all about our Black boys! Sapelo Square’s Executive Director, Latasha Rouseau, speaks with Atiba Saleem Jones, the founder and Executive Director of SAVE Institute, which offers middle…

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On the Square EP 11 – Preserving the Legacy: Black Creatives Making a Way

Aïdah Aliyah Rasheed, Special Projects Lead sits down with Bianca Bee Walker, photographer, filmmaker and one-half of Paper Monday. Within this episode, Aïdah and Bee talk about the beginning stages behind the collaborative project between…

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On The Square EP10- Sapelo’s Top Ten of 2021

In this episode of On The Square, our host Dr. Su’ad is joined by the Sapelo Squad! As we round out the podcast series and 2021 we wanted to bring the Squad to you up…

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On The Square EP9 – Being Black and Muslim in the World

In this episode of On The Square, we are in a diasporic mood! We talk with Gilary Massa-Machado from Canada, Tahir Fuzile Sitoto, a lecturer from South Africa, and Ismael Lea South, a community and…

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On The Square EP8 – Muslims in the Caribbean

In this episode of On The Square, Sapelo Square Senior Editor Su’ad Abdul Khabeer speaks with Dr. Aliyah Khan, author of Far from Mecca: Globalizing the Muslim Caribbean, about the deep Muslim history of the Caribbean…

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