CHICAGO | The Nation of Islam, a secretive movement generally closed to outsiders, has planned a rare open-to-the public event at its Chicago-based headquarters in what the Minister Louis Farrakhan ...

A new era. When Elijah Muhammad died in 1975, his son, Warith Deen Mohammed, transformed the NOI into the “World Community of al-Islam in the West.”He downplayed previous teachings about Black ...

Kehinde Andrews has written a new biography of Malcolm X, titled Nobody Can Give You Freedom: The Real Mission of Malcolm X.

Wallace Fard Muhammad, the founder of the Black Muslim movement, concluded the tutorial of his designated successor, Elijah Muhammad, in 1934. That was the year Fard, who under the Nation of Islam ...

Fard said he had come from Mecca, and he proclaimed a new belief, a variant of traditional Islam. God was black, Fard taught, and so was the first man created in His image some 66 trillion years ago.

The civil rights leader Malcolm X was famously part of the Nation of Islam until his break from the group in ... Malcolm X was assassinated on February 21, 1965, during an OAAU event in New York.

A New York City street corner will soon be named after a Nation of Islam leader whom many hail for his contributions to the Black community, but who also made numerous antisemitic remarks.

The Nation of Islam's convention, known as Saviours' Day, is from Friday through Sunday. Workshops, concerts, vendor booths and townhalls are at Cobo Center on Friday and Saturday.

The Nation of Islam is reaching out to metro Detroit's sizable Arab American communities, as it has before, said Troy Muhammad. The last time Farrakhan delivered a speech at an Arab American ...

Nation of Islam reduced since time converting Muhammad Ali African-American movement once had 500,000 members By Lauren Markoe , Religion News Service June 10, 2016 ...

Muhammad and others with the Nation of Islam in Michigan are busy this month preparing for the group's annual gathering known as Saviours' Day, a holiday that celebrates the birthday of Master ...