A dilemma Malcolm faced was thus that those whom he and his mentor Elijah Muhammad, among others, were struggling to protect against oppression were themselves fascinated with the nature of the ...

Taking over from the organization's founder, Elijah Muhammad helmed the Nation of Islam during a period of limited growth. Malcolm X's arrival in 1952 ushered in a time of dramatically increased ...

In the era of the civil rights movement, Malcolm X was America's most famous proponent of Black nationalism. A Muslim convert and a member of the Nation of Islam movement, Malcolm X believed that ...

As recounted in the book, Malcolm X was sent to Atlanta by Nation of Islam leader Elijah Muhammad to talk with the Klan about building an all-Black colony in Georgia. Both the Klan and the Nation ...

D. Fard, and ruled since Fard’s mysterious disappearance in 1934 by Elijah Muhammad. The Muslims offered Malcolm what Marcus Garvey had offered his father—and then some. They had caparisoned ...

FEBRUARY 2025 marked the 60th anniversary of the assassination of Malcolm X, who later took the name El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz after his pilgrimage to Mecca in 1964. As a revolutionary internationalist ...

His image, peering through curtains while holding a rifle, is iconic, seared into the collective memory of Black America. His message of racial progress — defiant, hopeful, or threatening, depending ...

Malcolm X was outlived by his monumental legacy. Malcolm was even more appalled by his leader’s transgressions at a personal level, after Elijah’s son Wallace confirmed that his dad had ...

“Malcolm assumed it was done by members of the Nation of Islam, likely on the orders of [the group’s leader] Elijah Muhammad,” Whitaker said. At the time of the firebombing, Malcolm X had ...

The Ohio Prep Sports Media Association 2024-2025 All-Central District high school boys and girls basketball teams, as ...

With Braedon Sloan graduated and Vaughn Pemberton transferred to Boston College, the Cardinals added two transfer running backs: Qua Ashley from Kennesaw State and Elijah Jackson from Purdue.