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...reason why religious head coverings have yet to emerge in the U.S. as a significant issue is because of the tiny number of American Muslims who actually cover up. "It's very unpopular," says Jamillah Karim, an assistant professor in religious studies at Spelman College. "A minority of a minority of Muslim women here wear the face veil. It's just not practiced enough where it would become an issue at schools...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Face Veils: Bans in Europe Fail to Take Hold in U.S. | 1/17/2010 | See Source »

...JASMINE JAMILLAH MAHMOUD...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Arts First | 5/7/2004 | See Source »

...here's where Malikah Jamillah Sherman of scenic Staten Island put distance between herself and the pack. Malikah built a three-dimensional city--sort of like a diorama but not really--out of colorful construction paper. On the roof of each building, she wrote a word or two describing a social problem that would not exist in her perfect world. Additional sheets of construction paper were put to good use in the compilation of a booklet about her best-of-all-possible-worlds metropolis. One judge was delighted to discover the paper town's dual use as a crown: during...

Author: By Mike E. Farbiarz, | Title: She's Sassy, Not Seventeen | 10/14/1993 | See Source »

...Maybe I need a son to even things up, because I'm out of shape," said Muhammad Ali when his twin daughters were born 16 months ago-making three girls for the Alis. But even females can help out with the roadwork, as Jamillah and Reeshemah discovered in Zurich, Switzerland, where the ex-champ was training for his Boxing Day exhibition match with West German Heavyweight Jurgen Blin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jan. 3, 1972 | 1/3/1972 | See Source »

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