CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (AP) — The oldest surviving place of worship for Muslims in the United States is a white clapboard building on a grassy corner plot, as unassumingly Midwestern as its neighboring ...

Papers presented at a conference held on the Amherst campus of the University of Massachusetts, April 1989 and sponsored by the Dept. of History, the Near East Area Studies Program, and the Arabic ...

Muslims have existed in America for as long as the country has been around—not that you’d know that from our mainstream telling of American history. In this special episode of The Secret Life of ...

In the autumn of 2008, Colin Powell, the former Secretary of State under George W. Bush, broke from the Republican Party and endorsed the Democratic nominee for President, Barack Obama. It had been a ...

Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player... One of the main takeaways from President Donald Trump’s election victory last year was the inroads he made with Hispanics and ...

(RNS) — The announcement of the first U.S.-born pope is important for all Americans but resonates especially strongly in Chicago and its larger community, known locally as Chicagoland. Born on the ...

Fatima Igram Smejkal, whose family immigrated to the United States from Lebanon in the early 1900s, greets fellow faithful before Friday prayer at the Islamic Center of Cedar Rapids on Aug. 8 in Cedar ...