imam khalid griggs

Imam Khalid Fattah Griggs accepted Islam in 1972. He is the Imam of The Community Mosque of Winston-Salem in North Carolina. This is a position he has held since 1984. He is also co-chairman of the North Carolina-based Black Leadership Roundtable of Winston-Salem-Forsyth County.

This is a review of the 2007 CBS 60 Minutes Program "The Trials of Darryl Hunt" about Darryl Hunt, an African-American man wrongly accused of rape and murder in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Hunt conveted to Islam in prison, and with the help of local Imam Khalid Fattah Griggs and other supporters, was freed.

Imam Khalid Griggs reminds us that Muslims are divinely mandated to attend to the social needs of neighbors, not just in Muslim countries, but in America as well, where poverty is not as evident.