The Nation of Islam has great importance as the bridge for many black Americans to move from Christianity to normative Islam (i.e., the global religion dating to the 7th century). Despite its name, ...

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 ...

"You're really doing this, you're the youngest to ever do it," Elijah Muhammad says his father told him of the accomplishment Elijah Muhammad made history as he accepted his diploma from Oklahoma City ...

Elijah Muhammad is the youngest in his family to receive a degree. Elijah Muhammad has achieved something not many 13 year olds can brag about: He's a college graduate. The young teen recently walked ...

OKLAHOMA CITY (KOCO) — Four diplomas. Dozens of certifications and awards. And now, 13-year-old Elijah Muhammad’s family says he’s the youngest African American to graduate college with a degree in ...

NEW YORK — In a city where statues and schools have been named after one-time pimps, slave owners and wagers of war, it is not at all surprising that a street could be named for a man who called white ...

"You're really doing this, you're the youngest to ever do it," Elijah Muhammad says his father told him of the accomplishment Julia Moore is a TV writer-reporter at PEOPLE. A graduate of Northwestern ...