African-American men in an Illinois prison describe their conversion to Islam in this 1996 documentary.
A growing number of African-American men are converting to Islam while in prison. In this story you’ll meet several of them, all living in a medium-security prison in Logan, Illinois, and hear how the “call of Islam” fills a silence and a vacuum in their lives.
The piece, produced for Chicago Public Radio’s “Chicago Matters,” is narrated by Katie Davis.
