Minister Louis Farrakhan, leader of the Nation of Islam, gets a standing ovation from his followers as he makes a point while speaking at a press conference at Mosque Maryam on March 31, 2011, in ...

The Nation of Islam and its leaders have received hundreds of thousands of dollars from the U.S. government since 2008 to teach religious study programs for federal prison inmates, ...

The Nation of Islam is reaching out to metro Detroit's sizable Arab American communities, as it has before, said Troy Muhammad. The last time Farrakhan delivered a speech at an Arab American ...

The civil rights leader Malcolm X was famously part of the Nation of Islam until his break from the group in 1964. What is the history behind this small but influential religious movement?

(RNS) A diamond-encrusted gold ring worn by Nation of Islam leader Elijah Muhammad sold for $5,250. His signature kofia, or hat, went for $32,500. But documents from the early years of the ...

Chris Hawthorne was 16 in the spring of 1989 when the Nation of Islam brought hip-hop giant Public Enemy to the banks of the Anacostia River. Crack, AIDS and murder were running roughshod on the ...

The Nation of Islam’s current leader, Louis Farrakhan, 83, is considered controversial for his anti-Semitic and homophobic sermons, his claims to have visited outer space, ...

The Nation of Islam is reaching out to metro Detroit's sizable Arab American communities, as it has before, said Troy Muhammad. The last time Farrakhan delivered a speech at an Arab American ...

Louis Farrakhan, the leader of the Nation of Islam for more than three decades, has said that he first heard about Scientology 35 years ago from a former Nation minister who became a Scientologist.