Most African American Muslims today are Sunni Muslims who pray to the formless Supreme Being they call Allah - God. They are not members of the Nation of Islam, but follow the leadership of Imam ...

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 campaign to liberate slaves would be a natural extension of the previous decade’s anti-apartheid movement, when major human-rights organizations and black leaders passionately took on the issue of r ...

One such group black nationalist group was the Nation of Islam – a religious and political organisation. The Nation of Islam argued that equality for black Americans could only be achieved by ...

who made up the majority of the members of the Nation of Islam. Malcolm X helped young black Americans to reconnect with their African heritage. Many of these young people would go on to be part ...