On an unassuming building on Los Angeles’ Slauson Avenue, a signboard reads Islah Academy. Inside is a celebration of the students’ Muslim and Black identities. Posters of Nipsey Hussle, Malcolm X and ...

When 79-year-old Donald Bakeer walks into this South Los Angeles classroom ... the students at the private, Muslim Islah Academy sat down in a semicircle with one goal: to learn about his part ...

Seventh-graders at Temple Beth Am’s Pressman Academy in the Pico-Robertson neighborhood and at the Islah Academy Muslim school in South Central Los Angeles recently discovered that despite their ...

They attend ISLAH Academy, a private Islamic school for African-American ... Make a donation. Tuesday’s election in Los Angeles gave a big win to Mayor Eric Garcetti and the city council members up ...

Islah Academy is a small community school in South L.A. that’s taking their young learners out of the classroom, and putting their hands into the soil.