Storyville: Muslim Voices of Newark

Muslim Voices is a national community history project founded by Scribe Video Center to highlight and celebrate the presence, history, contributions, and challenges of African American Muslims in America.  Express Newark's Community Media Center (CMC), in collaboration with Scribe, launched Muslim Voices of Newark, to support African American Muslim communities members of Muslim communities in developing their own documentary projects  - researching and sharing the stories, significant events, achievements, and issues that are part of both the history of Islam in the Newark area and the history of the region itself.

The Coalition: Voice of the Voiceless by Bibi Stewart

(USA, 2025, 20 mins) 

This film is set against the backdrop of the Rutgers Law School encampment in Newark, NJ—spearheaded by the Newark Solidarity Coalition.

Muslims of Hunterdon Street by Dr. Kalenah Witcher

(USA, 2025, 18 mins) 

Muslims of Hunterdon Street is a portrait of Muslim life in one small and diverse community within the Central Ward of Newark, New Jersey.

Bibi Stewart is the daughter of Guyanese immigrants, with African and Southeast Asian roots. She’s a Muslim, mother, Creative Director, and grassroots activist (among many other things), raised in the belly of America’s contradictions. Her life’s truth & purpose unfold as she stands at the intersection of faith, identity, resistance, and radical love.

Dr. Kalenah Witcher was born and raised in Newark and Irvington, New Jersey. Witcher completed her Doctor of Psychology at the Graduate School of Applied Professional Psychology at Rutgers University.