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’s ...

James 40X’s voice crackled through the phone, as if his whole life was on the move. I told him I’d meet him right away, near Supreme Bean Pie’s bakery, at the Nation of Islam’s headquarters in the ...

Federal prosecutors say the United Nation of Islam, a quasi-religious group deemed to be a "cult," used fear to coerce children into working up to 16-hour days in its storefronts, which were donated ...

Fifty years ago, American Islam changed course. On Feb. 26, 1975 — the day after the death of Elijah Muhammad, then the leader of the Nation of Islam — his son Wallace Deen Muhammad was lifted before ...

Minister Randy Muhammad, leader of Boston's Muhammad Mosque No. 11, speaks at a 40th anniversary gathering to celebrate the mosque's past leaders and future outreach efforts, Sept. 21, 2024. Boston’s ...

MINNEAPOLIS — State lawmaker Keith Ellison refused to let questions about his past slow down his campaign to become the first Muslim in Congress. On Tuesday, voters responded to his liberal message ...

CHICAGO — A year after delivering what the Nation of Islam deemed its ailing leader's final public address, Minister Louis Farrakhan has regained control of the movement and his place in its spotlight ...

NEWARK, N.J. (RNS) — The Muslim-American Ministry for Human Salvation has distanced itself from the Nation of Islam’s controversial Black supremacist discourse but celebrates its roots with Muslim ...