Shortly thereafter, he joined the Nation of Islam temple in Louisville and changed his name to 2X.
So why did Army major Nidal Malik Hassan, a Muslim psychologist at Fort Hood go on a shooting spree after being assigned to debrief soldiers who came back from the theater of war.
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His portrayal of Elijah Muhammad, the Nation of Islam leader, in the film Malcolm X earned him the 1995 NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture.
Kinchlow, the son of a Methodist minister, came to Christianity in the 1970s after a period as a Black Nationalist influenced by Malcolm X and the Black Muslims.
During this time, in 1996, he had a meeting with the controversial leader of the Nation of Islam, Louis Farrakhan, who was on a high profile visit to South Africa.
(There have been riots and beatings and, sometimes, killings. Tensions peaked in 1997, when Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan threatened to join marchers to protest racial violence against the Irish.)
Nathaniel Musaaleh Muhammad, was the Nation of Islam minister of the Kansas City Mosque.
On April 14, 1972, dispatchers received a 9-1-1 call from a "Detective Thomas", claiming to need assistance at the Nation of Islam's Mosque No. 7 on West 116th Street in Harlem.
From the late 1980s, at the height of the Afrocentric movement in hip hop (when artists such as KRS-One, Public Enemy, A Tribe Called Quest, the Native Tongues, and Rakim hit success), the movement seemed to be incorporating many doctrines from the Nation of Islam, the Nation of Gods and Earths, and the Nuwaubians.
Mosque Maryam, a large mosque in Chicago, Illinois, and headquarters of the Nation of Islam religious movement
She was endorsed by Nation of Islam leader Minister Louis Farrakhan, who had recently been politically involved with Jesse Jackson's 1988 campaign only to be dropped at the recommendation of Jackson's campaign advisors.
Whereas the Civil Rights Movement advocated on behalf of integration and against segregation, the Nation of Islam favored separatism.