It took me five years to complete this project—five years of writing, research, reflection, organization, and developing a six-volume series designed not as six separate books, but as one interconnected body of work.

There are books that examine Black American Muslim history. There are books about Islam, politics, race, identity, family, education, economics, and mental health. But Still We Struggle brings these areas together into a broader framework for understanding both the struggles and possible solutions facing Black American Muslims.

The six volumes are intentionally connected.

Volume I examines history, identity, and the foundations of the Black American Muslim struggle.

Volume II examines politics, power, leadership, identity, and the Black American Muslim experience.

Volumes III–IV examine the Black American Muslim family, marriage, mental health, psychological well-being, and community restoration.

Volume V examines Islamic economics, wealth, ownership, entrepreneurship, economic inequality, and the economic challenges facing Black Americans.

Volume VI examines Islamic education, knowledge, intellectual development, Western educational thought, and the need to reclaim the foundations of knowledge.

Together, the series takes a political, social, psychological, economic, religious, and educational approach to understanding the Black American Muslim experience in the United States.

I believe this makes Still We Struggle a unique six-volume project: each volume addresses a different dimension of the struggle, while each volume also connects to the others.

Because politics affects economics.
Because economics affects families.
Because families affect mental health.
Because education shapes how people understand themselves and their world.
And because all of these areas influence how Muslims understand and practice their religion within American society.

The purpose of the series is therefore not simply to document problems. It is to encourage critical examination, accountability, knowledge, self-development, institution-building, and community restoration.

After five years of work, the project has reached six volumes—but the central question remains:

How do Black American Muslims move from understanding the struggle to building the solutions?

Still We Struggle—but struggle does not have to be our permanent condition.