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Imam Khalid Griggs Speaking at ICNA CSJ Annual Banquet 

This year the theme of our banquet is “Exposing Hindutva: The Rise of Hindu Nationalism in the United States.”  Join us on October 1st 2022 at 6:00PM EST at the Crystal Gateway Marriott on 1700 Jefferson Davis Highway, Arlington, VA 22202. 

Amongst a great lineup of speakers, one of the speakers is Imam Khalid Griggs of the Muslim Alliance for Black Lives. 

Imam Khalid Abdul Fattah Griggs is the Imam of the Community Mosque of Winston-Salem, NC. He is leading an ICNA CSJ initiative, Muslim Alliance for Black Lives (MABL). He also served as Associate Chaplain for Muslim Life at Wake Forest University; Vice President of Islamic Circle of North America (ICNA); and member of Central Shura of ICNA. He was the first Board Chairman of ICNA Council for Social Justice. He is a founding member of Muslims for Social Justice (NC), a member of the Movement to End Racism and Islamophobia, a Board member of Interfaith Winston-Salem, and a Trustee of Parliament of the World’s Religions.

Imam Khalid is a human rights and prison reform activist, national lecturer, freelance writer and author of Come Let Us Change This World: A Brief History of the Islamic Party in North America. He is the former editor of ICNA’s Message Magazine, community access television Board Chairman, producer, and host, and Co-convener of Black Leadership Roundtable of Winston-Salem Forsyth County.

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