Nation of Islam
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The Nation of Islam is a religious organization founded in the United States by Wallace Fard Muhammad in 1930. A centralized and hierarchical group committed to black nationalism, it focuses attention
Elijah Muhammad, who took over the Nation after its founder's disappearance
Louis Farrakhan, who re-established the Nation of Islam after leaving Wallace Muhammad's group in 1977
Young members of the Nation of Islam in San Francisco in the 1990s
A member of the Nation, selling the group's newspaper, in 2015
Louis Farrakhan
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Louis Farrakhan is an American religious leader who has been the head of the Nation of Islam since 1981, a new religious movement which combines black nationalism and Islamic terminology. Prior to the
Nation of Islam
…renaming it the World Community of Al-Islam in the West. Members seeking to retain Elijah Muhammad's teachings re-established the Nation of Islam under Louis Farrakhan's leadership in 1977. Farrakhan expanded the NOI's economic and agricultural operations and continued to develop its beliefs, for instance by drawing…
Khadijah and Louis Farrakhan, 1996
Farrakhan in 1997
Farrakhan in Iran, 2018
Louis Farrakhan in 2016