The 79-year-old Nation of Islam leader made the ... with a proposal to become “natural soldiers” trained to protect Nation of Islam assets and property.

Malcolm X was a spokesperson for the Nation of Islam, or NOI, and helped to lead the organization until he left in 1964 – the year before his assassination. The NOI, whose role in civil rights ...

The Nation of Islam is an African American political and religious movement, founded in Detroit, Michigan, United States, by Wallace D. Fard Muhammad on July 4, 1930. Its stated goals are to ...

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 ...

His message resonated with her and 30 years ago, she became Muslim and joined the Nation of Islam, a religious group founded in Detroit in 1930. "All of the questions that I ever had about ...

That was the year Fard, who under the Nation of Islam’s theology was an “Allah,” one of a series of divine messengers whose time on Earth was limited, disappeared. The two men’s paths had ...