Welcome to the CWSC Town Hall!

An opinion, viewpoints, and perspectives discussion with live audience call-in sponsored by the Community Wide Shuraa Conference…

The CWSC National Town Hall is the place where we tackle the big issues facing communities nationwide in a “Straight to The Point” discussion live on-air at American Muslim 360 Radio (AM360.org) with guest panelists, moderators, and the AM360 Listenership that includes you. The Town Hall unlike any other AM360 programming offers an extended duration format and consequently indepth forum to help flesh out the issues, identify the causes and not merely the effects, and finally to discover the solutions without fear of touching the “third rail.”

From critical topics such as Identifying Effective Institutional Leadership, Diversity of Institutional Voice and the Changing Role of Women in the Group Intellect to Understanding the Importance of Respect for the Group Intellect in Properly Implementing Shuraa Baynahum, the CWSC Town Hall is designed to forge new thinking from dialogue and then help forge change via intelligentsia tools like the MCNRD and VHRN. The Town Hall is yet another path where together, we can remake the world!

CWSC aims to provide a shared freedom space for the group intellect. Views expressed in Town Halls do not necessarily reflect the official policies and /or opinions of CWSC or AM360.

Normally up to five Town Halls are announced per year on topics based on feedback from our listenership. Stay tuned to AM360.org or listen in at (701) 719-4197 and check out the CWSC National Calendar of Events. Send in your ideas for a Town Hall topic to info@cwsc.us, tweet @CWShuraa, facebook us, or leave us a listener comment at (910) 317-0297.

Archive of Town Hall Podcasts!

October 30, 2019 – National Domestic Violence Awareness: What are you willing to do?

June 29, 2019 – Prosperity in Historically Disadvantaged and Communities of Color: The Path Ahead – Part 2

May 18, 2019 – Prosperity in Historically Disadvantaged and Communities of Color: The Path Ahead – Part 1

February 23, 2019 – On the Model Communities National Resource Directory (MCNRD & VHRN) – Part 2

February 23, 2019 – On the MCNRD & VHRN Part 2

December 12, 2018 – On the Model Communities National Resource Directory (MCNRD) & Volunteer Human Resource Network (VHRN) featuring an introduction to Sister Everybody, Brother Somebody, Imam Anybody, and Dr. Nobody plus a focus on Babies in the River as a backdrop to the conversation. 

August 18, 2018 – Amruhum Shuraa Baynahum (On Mutual Consultation) in the 21st Century American Muslim Intelligentsia Part 3 

May 12, 2018 – Amruhum Shuraa Baynahum Part 2

May 1, 2018 – Amruhum Shuraa Baynahum (On Mutual Consultation) Part 1 

February 10, 2018 – Diversity in the 21st Century American Muslim Intelligentsia Part 3 

February 10, 2018 – Diversity in the 21st Century American Muslim Intelligentsia Part 2 

February 10, 2018 – Diversity in the 21st Century American Muslim Intelligentsia Part 1 for the first of the year National Community Conversations in a Straight to the Point Presentation. 

December 18, 2015 – Series Finale: Our 40th Anniversary Transition & Evolution to Al-Islam with Imam W. Deen Mohammed: A Look Back, Look Now & Look Ahead

Panelists reconvene in a dialogue on Imam W. Deen Mohammed’s (R) leadership and transformation of the American Muslim Community. Now 40 years later, we ask how far have we come–what remains to be done in the continuing evolution of a people. This final episode in a series that began earlier in 2015 will be a fitting finale as we look forward to 2016.

May 29, 2015 – 40th Anniversary of a Transition & Evolution: A Conversation with Dr. Khalil Gibran Muhammad…

Director of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture and author of The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America, Dr. Khalil Gibran Muhammad joins host Mark Shahid and AM360 Executive Producer William Kareem for a discussion on the Nation and its evolution, the impact of his great-grandfather’s (Elijah Muhammad) and great uncle’s leadership, Imam W. Deen Mohammed, and the current issues on race and crime in America. Plus in the first half hour, Director of CWSC Human Resources, Dharr S. Dihaan, discusses CWSC as a “Learning Organization,” committed to community service…Part VI of the special commemoration. Click here to listen to this presentation in the archives.

May 22, 2015 – 40th Anniversary of a Transition & Evolution: Shuraa in Practice…

The Honorable Judge David Shaheed joins host AM360’s Pearls of Wisdom Ni’mat Shaheed and AM360 Executive Producer William Kareem for a discussion on the Islamic principles of Shura Baynahum…at the intersection of faith and reasoning in decision making, an imperative junction for institutions that have evolved from centralized hierarchy to self-governance. Part V of the special commemoration. Click here to listen to this presentation in the archives.

May 15, 2015 – 40th Anniversary of a Transition & Evolution: New Millennium and Gen X voices on their Islamic inheritance…

A new generation perspective on our Evolution, Transformation and the leadership of Imam W. Deen Mohammed (R) and perspectives on the sacrifice of our pioneers to make a place for Al-Islam in America. Join us as the Roundtable welcomes Dr. W. Marcus Lambert, a graduate of the Mohammed Schools of Atlanta, now the Director of Diversity and Student Services at Weill Cornell Graduate School of Medical Sciences and Adjunct Professor of Microbiology at New York City College of Technology.  This Roundtable is dedicated to American Muslim Pioneer, the late Minister James Muhammad of Newark New Jersey. Click here to listen to this presentation in the archives.

May 8, 2015 – 40th Anniversary of a Transition & Evolution…A Witness to History – A Conversation with the Editor of Muslim Journal.  A CWSC On-Air special Roundtable focus on Imam W. D. Mohammed (R) and the transformation of a community. This Roundtable edition is dedicated to Al-Hajj Malik Al-Shabazz (RA). Click here to listen to this presentation in the archives.

May 1, 2015 – 40th Anniversary of a Transition & Evolution…The Voices of Our Pioneers.  A CWSC On-Air special Roundtable focus on Imam W. D. Mohammed (RA) and the transformation of a community. This Roundtable edition is dedicated to Sister Clara Muhammad, Pioneer in private Islamic education. Click here to listen to this presentation in the archives.

April 24, 2015 – 40th Anniversary of a Transition & Evolution…A Look back, Look Now & Look Ahead.  A CWSC On-Air special Roundtable focus on Imam W. D. Mohammed (RA) and the transformation of a community. He ascended the podium at the original Nation of Islam’s February 26, 1975 Saviors Day Annual Convention to begin a historic evolution…Now 40 years later we ask how far have we come and what remains to be done in the continuing evolution of a people. This Roundtable edition is dedicated to Imam W. Deen Mohammed (ra) and all our pioneers. Click here to listen to this presentation in the archives.