Warith Deen Mohammed

[instrumental music] Right? Worked at the Nation of Islam Chicago headquarters, taking the name Luther X.

Later followed Imam Warith Deen Mohammed and took the name Na'im Akbar.

Taught at Norfolk State University, then for twenty-eight years at Florida State, FAMU University, retiring in two thousand and eight.

President of the Association of Black Psychologists from nineteen eighty-seven to nineteen eighty-- Listen, damn the resume.

I had asked Minister Bachar, you know, where can I get more of this? Because he wasn't doing active ministry at that time.

And he went over, you know, the various students of the Messenger who were doing various work in Islam, all the way from Wallace D. Muhammad, Silas.

He even mentioned the Son of Man.

Of course, he mentioned Minister Farrakhan.

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... on one aspect of Malcolm X, or like for instance, I was also very interested by, and I started to write about it like the, what they call the transition from, uh, the old Nation of Islam with Warith Deen Mohammed and, uh-

Mm-hmm

... how he tried to bring them in a way if like kind of mainstream Islam.

When Malcolm passed away he was, I think, 21 or 22 years old.

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And, uh, he, uh, uh, uh, you know, when Malcolm, um, left the Nation of Islam or, uh, he has been put out or a- a- any way we call it, uh, at the same period of time, uh, Warith Deen Mohammed as well, Wallace Mohammed at this time, was also out of the Nation-

Mm-hmm