Black Crescent Wellness Foundation (BCWF) is a pioneering initiative dedicated to the healing and
empowerment of African American faith communities through the integration of spiritual care, cultural
understanding, and psychological insight. We exist to confront and address the deep and often
overlooked wounds caused by the intersection of spiritual abuse, racial trauma, and systemic
oppression—wounds frequently dismissed in both mainstream mental health discourse and religious
spaces.
Rooted in Islamic principles and trauma-informed, culturally responsive care, BCWF draws from critical
frameworks such as Minority Stress Theory and Intersectionality Theory to offer holistic programs that
acknowledge trauma not merely as an individual burden but as a collective reality shaped by racism,
Islamophobia, toxic theology, patriarchal control, and hermeneutical injustice.
Unlike many wellness organizations, BCWF centers the lived realities of African American Muslims—a
community persistently marginalized in national conversations about healing, mental health, and
religious harm. We recognize that faith can be both a source of deep pain and profound restoration, and
we create space for both truth-telling and transformation.
Our use of the term 'Black' is intentionally inclusive of all Muslims of African descent, encompassing
Black Americans/Descendants of Enslaved Africans, Black Africans, Afro-Caribbeans/West Indians, Afro-
Black Arabs, Afro-Latinx, and others. We celebrate and serve the full ethnic, cultural, sectarian, and
linguistic diversity within the Black Muslim community, recognizing this richness as essential to the
healing and liberation of all.
Through this mission, Black Crescent Wellness Foundation stands as a bold response to generations of
erasure and harm, committed to cultivating spaces of justice, wholeness, and collective resilience.
