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Bisi Ideraabdullah: Never Losing Faith

November 28th, 2011 Written by | 122 Comments

by Iyana Robertson

In 1982, Brooklyn native Bisi Ideraabdullah suffered the stillborn death of her daughter after being turned away by a hospital while in trauma. With great discontent in America as a whole, including the immense racism of the times, Ideraabdullah decided to move to Liberia, West Africa with her husband Mahmoud and four children. Immediately upon their arrival, she formed an outreach agency, which she named Imani House, after her deceased child. (more…)

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