Nisa Islam Muhammad

Nisa Islam Muhammad is the Founder and CEO of Wedded Bliss Foundation, a national initiative to promote marriage in the Black community. Inspired by the Million Family March, she came upon this challenging work while researching an article for The Final Call Newspaper where she is a senior staff writer. She read in the Morehouse Research Institute publication, “Turning the Corner on Father Absence in Black America”, that married men make more money. She asked herself, “Does anyone else know this?” After researching the answer, she found that not many people knew the numerous benefits of marriage, especially in the Black community. That was the beginning of her quest to unearth a wealth of knowledge about the benefits of marriage and pass them on to the community where successful marriages are a wish and a prayer.

“Reviving Marriage in the Black Community” was the company’s debut conference in the Washington, DC area that gathered nearly 200 people interested in learning how to make their marriage successful. Participants engaged in workshops that explored topics such as “Fighting for Your Marriage: Resisting Divorce, Finding Your Soulmate and “Infidelity: Repairing a Broken Promise”. The conference received national press coverage and Wedded Bliss has been asked to bring the innovative conference to New York, Houston and Chicago next year.

Ms. Muhammad is a graduate of the University of Maryland and studied journalism at Howard University. In addition to writing for The Final Call she also writes for Azizah Magazine and is a guest columnist for The Washington Informer newspaper. Ms. Muhammad has written numerous articles on family issues.

Wedded Bliss Foundation is Ms. Muhammad’s vision to bring resources, support and direction to the Black community so happy marriages become the norm rather than the exception. Ms. Muhammad knows both the joys of marriage and the sorrows of divorce. She wants to create better foundations for successful marriages so her five children can enjoy Wedded Bliss.

Nisa Islam Muhammad’s Lecture topics:

Wedded Bliss

Wedded bliss is a wish and a prayer in the Black community where people want to get married but how to stay married is almost rocket science. The Black community is the most unpartnered group in America. The relationships you experience today lay the base and foundation for the success of your relationships tomorrow. What does it take to make a marriage work, how do you make love last, and what can you do to achieve wedded bliss? Marriage may not be in your immediate future but what you learn at this lecture may prevent divorce from being in your future at all.

The Gift of a Two-Parent Family

Children are the great benefactors of marriage. It provides them direct access to both parents for financial, emotional, social and spiritual resources. It provides them with a safety and security that cannot be duplicated in any other relationship. In the Black community where out of wedlock births are out of control few children receive the gift of a two-parent family. This lecture explores the benefits of marriage, what it does for children, what single parenting offers, how to avoid “baby mama drama” and the need to do revolutionary things like getting married.

The One You Are Looking For Is Looking For You

Believe it or not the one you are looking for to spend the rest of your life with is also looking for you. Will you be ready when that one finds you? Too many times we’re so anxious to find the right person we fail to ask ourselves are we the right person. This lecture looks at conducting a personal inventory to get a better sense of self. It will help participants explore what kind of person they are to get a better understanding of the kind of person they want in their life.

Husband and Wife

Most of us grow up with the desire to be someone's husband or wife. But where do we learn how to be successful in that role? Must it always be trial and error or are there some things we can learn to be a great husband or wife? This workshop will explore the role of husband and wife. How do they differ? How are they the same? What must a man do to be a successful husband and what must a woman do to be a successful wife. We can go to school to learn how to be a doctor, lawyer, teacher and all manner of things, but the school for husbands and wives does not exist. This workshop will give participants necessary information to be the best they can be in the most important relationship in their lives.

To have Ms. Muhammad conduct a writer's workshop for your staff, or as a speaker for your church, mosque, or civic organization call 312.617.6690. Submit the TEI Speakers' Request form.

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