SANDERSVILLE, Ga. — A descendant of Nation of Islam founder Elijah Muhammad is asking Washington County officials to honor Muhammad's birthplace with a proclamation and historic marker, part of an ...

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 ...

CHICAGO — Imam W.D. Mohammed, who succeeded his father as leader of the Nation of Islam but abandoned its teachings of black supremacy and moved thousands of its followers into mainstream Islam, died ...

CHICAGO -- Nation of Islam Minister Louis Farrakhan stressed unity among religions while preaching a message of black empowerment at a public event Sunday deemed "a new beginning" for the ...

(RNS) — The Nation of Islam has repudiated last week’s attack on the U.S. Capitol that left a police officer dead and another injured and distanced itself from the suspect, after some reports that he ...