Tribe of Shabazz—According to NOI theology, the Tribe of Shabazz was the lone survivor of thirteen tribes that lived sixty-six trillion years ago. Led by a scientist of the same name, it was believed that members of the Nation were descendants of the tribe, which eventually settled in present-day Mecca.
Ummah—Arabic word meaning “community” or “nation,” it refers to the Arab world or, in Islam, the diaspora of believers throughout the world.
Umrah—Lesser pilgrimage compared to the hajj, it refers to travel to the holy sites out of season.
Walaikum salaam—The typical response to As-salaam alaikum, meaning “And upon you be peace.”
Well of Zamzam—A well located within the Masjid al-Haram, not far from the Kaaba. Pilgrims drink from the well each year during hajj or umrah.
“A White Man’s Heaven Is a Black Man’s Hell”—Song composed by calypso singer and future national minister Louis Farrakhan for the Nation of Islam.
X—Each Nation of Islam member was required to drop his or her surname and replace it with an X, representing the unknown ancestral surname that had been stripped away through slavery. Numbers preceded the X if more than one member of a mosque shared the same first name, progressing in order of membership.
Yacub’s History—According to NOI theology, Dr. Yacub (often spelled Yakub) was an evil scientist who lived in Mecca in 8400 BCE. After he and his followers were exiled to an island in the Aegean Sea, Dr. Yacub sought revenge by genetically grafting the black gene from the Original Man until the white race was eventually created, long after his death at the age of 152.
Zakat—Another of the five pillars, zakat is the calculated percentage of one’s possessions or earnings to be given to the needy and community.
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Federal Bureau of Investigation, U.S. Department of Justice (listed by numerical file number)
Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) releases
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Malcolm Little, Office of Public Safety and Security, Department of Corrections, State of Michigan
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Baltimore Sun
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Black Scholar
Black World
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The Catalogue of Brown University
The Challenger
The Charleston Chronicle (Charleston, SC)
Chicago Daily News
Chicago Defender
Chicago Tribune
Chicago’s American
Christian Century
Christianity and Crisis
City Sun (New York)
Columbia Daily Spectator
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Daily Telegraph
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The Detroit News
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Ebony
Egyptian Gazette
Emerge
Esquire
Essence
Ghanaian Times
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Hartford Courant
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