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During the 1990’s UBUS Books & Things, a full service bookstore, Health Foods store, among many other products and services, was located in Hampton, Virginia.

 

H. Khalif Khalifah and his wife Reda Faard, owners of the retail business were separated by the death of Reda in 1997. Widower Khalifah closed the store in the year 2000 and moved the remaining business 75 miles west to Southampton County, Virginia; on a tract of land that was part of the birth land of Nat Turner.

 

Now he has formed a P

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BLACK BOOK AWARD GIVEN IN NAME OF YAHHA ABDUL KARIM Pioneering Independent Black Writer, Publisher and Muslim, Yahya Abdul Karim “joined the ancestors” in 2008. 2009 will be one of only three years his presence will not be there, when Black Writers gather at Khalifah’s Estate to “validate and celebrate” Black writers at the 18th presentation of Black Book Awards for Excellence in Black Literature. Brother Yahya will not be there but his spirit surely will. He was especially adept at recogniz
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