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Dr. Ava Muhammad Featured In Iconic Ebony Magazine!

By Final Call News | Last updated: Jan 27, 2016 - 11:30:41 AM

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Dr. Ava Muhammad, attorney, author,  radio personality and Nation of Islam Student Minister was featured in the Dec. 2015/Jan. 2016 issue of Ebony magazine in its special “Power (100) To The People!” cover highlighting, celebrities, activists, faith leaders and others sharing their thoughts, insight and affirmations surrounding social justice issues in the new year. The special was also the 70th Anniversary Collector’s edition of the iconic magazine which was founded and published by the late John H. Johnson, in 1945.

Dr. Muhammad who is the student National Spokesperson of the Nation of Islam and the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan was featured on the same page as other spiritual advisors including, Bishop T.D. Jakes, Rev. Dr. Jawanza Colvin and Iyanla Vanzant. 

Contacted by Ebony staffers Jamilah Lemieux, Senior Editor and Tia Brown, Entertainment and Lifestyle Director Dr. Muhammad said they wanted spiritual leadership to share some advice to readers entering 2016. 

“They used different affirmations under each person they interviewed and under mine (picture) they used the term “lead” which I was very effected by because that was without me realizing it the point that I was attempting to get across to us as individuals to take charge of self as we go in to 2016,” shared Dr. Muhammad during a broadcast of Elevated Places, her weekly radio program airs Sunday’s at 4 p.m. C.S.T. on WVON 1690 AM.

No Black person can be oblivious, unaware or disconnect to the reality that Black people in America are in a crisis and need to recognize our own power and provide each other with positive energy, she said, echoing the words she shared in Ebony. 

“God always has a leadership; a man or a woman in the midst of a people who capsulizes his will and that man is the man that I follow, Minister Louis Farrakhan, and I noted that fact to the magazine,” said Dr. Muhammad adding that she was very honored by the interview.

“I thought that it was very needed for our people that in the midst of all of this crisis, to be able to understand we have power. Sometimes we need to just reach out to each other, touch somebody. I know it sounds cliché, but you can read when you study people when they have a need. Sometimes they just need a good word,” said Dr. Muhammad.

Everyone has a sphere of influence of people they come in contact with and leadership does not require a podium or pulpit, she explained. Ministry and service is mistaken by some to mean, being on camera or being seen, but that is not the case, said Dr. Muhammad.

“Anything that uplifts, inspires and empowers your fellow human being makes you a minister or servant.”