Muslim Teens Break Barriers In Two YouTube Videos
Adam Saleh, Sheikh Akbar and Abdullah Ghuman are three Brooklyn, NY-born best friends who run a vlog on YouTube called TrueStoryASA. Watch any one of their weekly videos, which averages 20 to 25,000 views, and you’ll find yourself immersed in the random adventures of boyhood: riding shopping carts in the Staten Island Mall parking lot, slap fights that end when the first guy gives in, a bevy of pranks on the unsuspecting and unrelenting ribbing of each other. In other words, the boys are chronicling a day in the life of the average American teen.
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![](/sites/default/files/resize/images/Tenille-pic-3-340x291.png "Tenille sings "Lean On Me" with a Sunrise House resident at the 2013 Big Hearts For Big Kids fundraiser — photo credit: Suzanne Sagmeister Photography")
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