Composers Rhiannon Giddens and Michael Abels have brought a true story to the opera stage: the life of Omar Ibn Said, a Senegalese Muslim scholar who was enslaved and brought to the Carolinas.

Composers Rhiannon Giddens and Michael Abels have brought a true story to the opera stage: the life of Omar Ibn Said, a Senegalese Muslim scholar who was enslaved and brought to the Carolinas.

As part of our Juneteenth special broadcast, we feature our interview with pioneering musical artist Rhiannon Giddens, who ...

The opera "Omar," on a Muslim slave in America 07:22. Eerie – just as the curtain was about to rise on the opera based on his story, an image of Omar Ibn Said, dead more than 150 years, appeared ...

Today, the Masjid Omar Ibn Sayyid mosque in Fayetteville bears his name. Said was eventually claimed as property by James Owen of Bladen County (brother of N.C. Gov. John Owen), and he spent the ...

Omar Ibn Said, an enslaved African man, lived much of his life in 19th-century Wilmington. ... Today, the Masjid Omar Ibn Sayyid mosque in Fayetteville bears his name.

Composers Rhiannon Giddens and Michael Abels have brought a true story to the opera stage: the life of Omar Ibn Said, a Senegalese Muslim scholar who was enslaved and brought to the Carolinas.

Today, the Masjid Omar Ibn Sayyid mosque in Fayetteville bears his name. Said was eventually claimed as property by James Owen of Bladen County (brother of N.C. Gov. John Owen), and he spent the ...

Composers Rhiannon Giddens and Michael Abels have brought a true story to the opera stage: the life of Omar Ibn Said, a Senegalese Muslim scholar who was enslaved and brought to the Carolinas.

Composers Rhiannon Giddens and Michael Abels have brought a true story to the opera stage: the life of Omar Ibn Said, a Senegalese Muslim scholar who was enslaved and brought to the Carolinas.

The real man on whom this opera is based, Omar Ibn Said, was a Muslim man who became a slave in Charleston, like about 40 percent of other Africans who were forced into North America.

The real man on whom this opera is based, Omar Ibn Said, was a Muslim man who became a slave in Charleston, like about 40 percent of other Africans who were forced into North America.