Trinity Trick and the Double Cross

• New York City

• 1970s

Two copies of a poem by Aliyah (A'aliyah) Abdul-Karim.

Notes: The first image is a photocopy of a page from Al-Jihadul Akbar, the newspaper of the Darul Islam movement, that published Aliyah's poem, then Aliyah Amatullah Hakim. The second image is the first page of the 3-paged document in which the poem was typed and stapled for distribution — there are 3 copies of this document in the archive. Umi would always do this. If she bought a book, she would get more than one copy; if she printed out an email, she would print out multiple copies; or if she picked up a flyer, she would always get a few and so on. Umi did this as a way of distributing important information, specifically information that was not easy to find or acquire from mainstream venues, thus making the information even more valuable for communities like ours. Noted Black Feminist, Barbara Smith, recounts a similar practice of study, copy, and distribution among the Combahee River Collective in the book, How We Get Free (pp. 56-59)