//podcastplus.net/feed/nurah-speaks~9d16504e The Nurah Speaks podcast tugs at the soul and consciousness of the Black community. With her own brand of enlightenment, empowerment and engagement, show host Nurah Muhammad challenges the audience to not only Join the Movement but also 'Be the Movement.' ​Show topics include education, civic engagement, women's impact, youth empowerment and more. Nurah Speaks will welcome guests who have significant insight into these topics and more.You are always welcome to join in the conversation. You can email your listener questions to: Questions@NurahZaheerah.com. Mon, 17 Aug 2026 23:18:30 +0000 https://api.spreaker.com/download/episode/64413294/d1a91e5a_f9fc_1bc8_bd8a_65af4e201c5e.mp3 Black History Month 2025 comes at a time in this nation wherein we need love amongst ourselves more now than ever.  But we must advance the notion of Black Love beyond affection and recognize that love is a verb.  Love is doing good and bringing no harm.  Love is elevating each other, teaching and encouraging and even correcting each other.  Black Love is more than a slogan or rhetoric on tees and hoodies.  It is more than hashtags and raised fists.  It is the activity we do in service of our people that promotes a future with promise.If you would like to engage with the Nurah Speaks podcast, submit your listener questions or topic suggestions to info@NurahSpeaks.com.  Listeners can also learn more about Nurah by visiting her website:  NurahSpeaks.com .Follow Nurah Speaks @NurahSpeaksPodcast on Facebook , Twitter and Instagram .To bring Nurah as a speaker at your next event, email info@NurahSpeaks.com.Remember, don’t just Join the Movement, Be the Movement! Mon, 17 Feb 2025 05:50:00 +0000 https://api.spreaker.com/download/episode/64413294/d1a91e5a_f9fc_1bc8_bd8a_65af4e201c5e.mp3 https://api.spreaker.com/download/episode/64413294/d1a91e5a_f9fc_1bc8_bd8a_65af4e201c5e.mp3 Black History Month 2025 comes at a time in this nation wherein we need love amongst ourselves more now than ever.  But we must advance the notion of Black Love beyond affection and recognize that love is a verb.  Love is doing good and bringing no harm.  Love is elevating each other, teaching and encouraging and even correcting each other.  Black Love is more than a slogan or rhetoric on tees and hoodies.  It is more than hashtags and raised fists.  It is the activity we do in service of our people that promotes a future with promise.If you would like to engage with the Nurah Speaks podcast, submit your listener questions or topic suggestions to info@NurahSpeaks.com.  Listeners can also learn more about Nurah by visiting her website:  NurahSpeaks.com .Follow Nurah Speaks @NurahSpeaksPodcast on Facebook , Twitter and Instagram .To bring Nurah as a speaker at your next event, email info@NurahSpeaks.com.Remember, don’t just Join the Movement, Be the Movement! Mon, 17 Feb 2025 05:50:00 +0000 https://api.spreaker.com/download/episode/64413294/d1a91e5a_f9fc_1bc8_bd8a_65af4e201c5e.mp3 https://api.spreaker.com/download/episode/64405428/1355237e_5d40_fa25_8495_ae1808dd24a6.mp3 This episode revisits a discussion about neutrality and our tendency to be noncommittal despite real challenges impacting our communities. We cannot be on the fence forever being neither this nor that, never having made a commitment or obligating ourselves to one direction or another.  Indecisiveness is obstructive to our personal development.  It is time now to be accountable and this comes with settling down to a good choice and solidifying ourselves with other like minded individuals engaged in the good work of creating change.If you would like to engage with the Nurah Speaks podcast, submit your listener questions to info@NurahSpeaks.com.  Listeners can also learn more about Nurah by visiting her website:  NurahSpeaks.com or reading her blog by clicking this  link . Follow Nurah Speaks @NurahSpeaksPodcast on Facebook ,  Twitter and Instagram . To bring Nurah as a speaker at your next event, email info@NurahSpeaks.com Remember, don’t just Join the Movement, Be the Movement! Mon, 10 Feb 2025 14:45:00 +0000 https://api.spreaker.com/download/episode/64405428/1355237e_5d40_fa25_8495_ae1808dd24a6.mp3 https://api.spreaker.com/download/episode/64405428/1355237e_5d40_fa25_8495_ae1808dd24a6.mp3 This episode revisits a discussion about neutrality and our tendency to be noncommittal despite real challenges impacting our communities. We cannot be on the fence forever being neither this nor that, never having made a commitment or obligating ourselves to one direction or another.  Indecisiveness is obstructive to our personal development.  It is time now to be accountable and this comes with settling down to a good choice and solidifying ourselves with other like minded individuals engaged in the good work of creating change.If you would like to engage with the Nurah Speaks podcast, submit your listener questions to info@NurahSpeaks.com.  Listeners can also learn more about Nurah by visiting her website:  NurahSpeaks.com or reading her blog by clicking this  link . Follow Nurah Speaks @NurahSpeaksPodcast on Facebook ,  Twitter and Instagram . To bring Nurah as a speaker at your next event, email info@NurahSpeaks.com Remember, don’t just Join the Movement, Be the Movement! Mon, 10 Feb 2025 14:45:00 +0000 https://api.spreaker.com/download/episode/64405428/1355237e_5d40_fa25_8495_ae1808dd24a6.mp3 https://api.spreaker.com/download/episode/64187835/39b1aa20_31f8_374c_b592_2453fa4e5f44.mp3 After the inauguration of the 47th President of the United States, it seems that every liberal leaning media outlet is sounding an alarm of fear and terror with what has occurred and what is to come in the current presidential administration. However I propose that the panic, fear and terror for what is to come for us is long overdue.  We have already been existing with certain vulnerabilities in ways that other groups have not.   And what this podcast and other media sources like CROE TV and Muhammad Speaks Radio has been doing for years is helping us understand what these vulnerabilities are that the black community face and what we can and should be doing about them. It is not necessary that we wait for the government to secure a future for us-because as we see, depending upon whose ideology is in power, we are simply in an insecure, unstable and frankly unsure condition. And while our eyes and ears are summoned to the White House, we can overlook what is in front of our faces locally, whether that is pu... Mon, 03 Feb 2025 13:45:00 +0000 https://api.spreaker.com/download/episode/64187835/39b1aa20_31f8_374c_b592_2453fa4e5f44.mp3 https://api.spreaker.com/download/episode/64187835/39b1aa20_31f8_374c_b592_2453fa4e5f44.mp3 After the inauguration of the 47th President of the United States, it seems that every liberal leaning media outlet is sounding an alarm of fear and terror with what has occurred and what is to come in the current presidential administration. However I propose that the panic, fear and terror for what is to come for us is long overdue.  We have already been existing with certain vulnerabilities in ways that other groups have not.   And what this podcast and other media sources like CROE TV and Muhammad Speaks Radio has been doing for years is helping us understand what these vulnerabilities are that the black community face and what we can and should be doing about them. It is not necessary that we wait for the government to secure a future for us-because as we see, depending upon whose ideology is in power, we are simply in an insecure, unstable and frankly unsure condition. And while our eyes and ears are summoned to the White House, we can overlook what is in front of our faces locally, whether that is pu... Mon, 03 Feb 2025 13:45:00 +0000 https://api.spreaker.com/download/episode/64187835/39b1aa20_31f8_374c_b592_2453fa4e5f44.mp3 https://api.spreaker.com/download/episode/63937744/c60929ec_c543_89c5_e19b_fbe7240a54bb.mp3 At various points in our lives we are confronted with the decision to choose the exhausting path for truth and justice or the easy path of agreement and compromise.  It is at those times we should reflect on what our choices will declare about our character.   In revisiting Dr. King’s ‘But If Not’ sermon featured in the last episode, I am encouraged on my own path for truth and justice, no matter the inconvenience or costs.  We should all be willing to stand for truth because, as in the example King cited, we have the biblical illustration of the three thrown into the fiery furnace and what came from holding true to their convictions.   Because they - in the face of their own tormenting death - remained unwavering, not only were they unharmed but enjoyed in such time the presence of the Lord.  This account serves as a caution and guide to each of us in such times of decision. Truth is not alway convenient and compromise is not always righteous.  Yet our principles must be incorruptible, belie... Mon, 27 Jan 2025 18:10:00 +0000 https://api.spreaker.com/download/episode/63937744/c60929ec_c543_89c5_e19b_fbe7240a54bb.mp3 https://api.spreaker.com/download/episode/63937744/c60929ec_c543_89c5_e19b_fbe7240a54bb.mp3 At various points in our lives we are confronted with the decision to choose the exhausting path for truth and justice or the easy path of agreement and compromise.  It is at those times we should reflect on what our choices will declare about our character.   In revisiting Dr. King’s ‘But If Not’ sermon featured in the last episode, I am encouraged on my own path for truth and justice, no matter the inconvenience or costs.  We should all be willing to stand for truth because, as in the example King cited, we have the biblical illustration of the three thrown into the fiery furnace and what came from holding true to their convictions.   Because they - in the face of their own tormenting death - remained unwavering, not only were they unharmed but enjoyed in such time the presence of the Lord.  This account serves as a caution and guide to each of us in such times of decision. Truth is not alway convenient and compromise is not always righteous.  Yet our principles must be incorruptible, belie... Mon, 27 Jan 2025 18:10:00 +0000 https://api.spreaker.com/download/episode/63937744/c60929ec_c543_89c5_e19b_fbe7240a54bb.mp3 https://api.spreaker.com/download/episode/63763697/fedaa77a_2d52_42b0_05d0_9b33c80b0008.mp3 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was a poignant example of a man standing on faith and principles, regardless of the risks, discomfort and persecution. In his work of pressing the United States government for civil rights of the nation’s ex-slaves and in his anti-war stance on Vietnam, he made an enemy of the FBI and the U.S. President. Even his companions in the Civil Rights Movement deserted him.  He was a man standing on principle, refusing to sit in spite of threats and public disgrace because he believed he had truth and justice on his side.  Questions that his example compel us to ask ourselves: What will we stand for? Will we remain standing in the face of criticism and threat?  What is the cost to our souls, consciousness and freedom if we do not? The excerpts in this episode is from Dr. King’s speech at Ebenezer Baptist Church November 5, 1967 titled, ‘But If Not’. If you would like to engage with the Nurah Speaks podcast, submit your listener questions or topic suggestions to ⁠info@NurahSpea... Mon, 20 Jan 2025 13:39:43 +0000 https://api.spreaker.com/download/episode/63763697/fedaa77a_2d52_42b0_05d0_9b33c80b0008.mp3 https://api.spreaker.com/download/episode/63763697/fedaa77a_2d52_42b0_05d0_9b33c80b0008.mp3 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was a poignant example of a man standing on faith and principles, regardless of the risks, discomfort and persecution. In his work of pressing the United States government for civil rights of the nation’s ex-slaves and in his anti-war stance on Vietnam, he made an enemy of the FBI and the U.S. President. Even his companions in the Civil Rights Movement deserted him.  He was a man standing on principle, refusing to sit in spite of threats and public disgrace because he believed he had truth and justice on his side.  Questions that his example compel us to ask ourselves: What will we stand for? Will we remain standing in the face of criticism and threat?  What is the cost to our souls, consciousness and freedom if we do not? The excerpts in this episode is from Dr. King’s speech at Ebenezer Baptist Church November 5, 1967 titled, ‘But If Not’. If you would like to engage with the Nurah Speaks podcast, submit your listener questions or topic suggestions to ⁠info@NurahSpea... Mon, 20 Jan 2025 13:39:43 +0000 https://api.spreaker.com/download/episode/63763697/fedaa77a_2d52_42b0_05d0_9b33c80b0008.mp3