The civil rights leader gave furious clarity to black anger in the 1960s, but like several of his contemporaries met with a ...

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 ...

A top coordinator at a prominent left-wing nonprofit traveled to Chicago recently, attending the Nation of Islam's annual Saviours' Day event.

But that becomes a pretext for Elijah Muhammad to silence Malcolm. And really that silencing is based on a political dispute within the Nation of Islam over whether the organization is going to be ...

because I was introduced to a man named the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan and a Life giving teaching from the Most Honorable Elijah Muhammad. I can move/help my people like I do cause of Rev ...

What really happened the day Malcolm X was murdered and how can we understand his significance to civil rights in America?

Elijah Muhammad, the Nation's leader, named him national representative, second only to himself. Thanks in no small part to Malcolm X, the sect grew from a few hundred members to about 500,000.

Is an important event missing from this date? Email us. Elijah Muhammad, with two bodyguards, spoke with reporters at his home at 4847 Woodlawn Ave., Chicago on Feb. 22, 1965. (Leonard Bartholomew ...

Sixty years after his murder, it is up to all of us to defy ruling-class attempts to sanitise or distort his revolutionary ...

Malcolm further notes: “We aren’t a violent group. We are taught by the Honorable Elijah Muhammad to obey the law, to respect everyone who respects us. We’re taught to display courtesy ...

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 ...

"Muhammad Ali. When Malcolm X would be in Chicago, he would be a patron here. And of course, his teacher, Elijah Muhammad. Louis Farrakhan and Sam Cooke would come through. And even though it wasn ...