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Why Malcolm X Left The Nation Of Islam
Why Malcolm X Left The Nation Of Islam Kwadwo Danmeara Tòkunbọ̀ Datɛ 78 Views • 3 years ago

In 1959, TV Producers Mike Wallace and Louis Lomax produced a five part TV special entitled, "The Hate That Hate Produced" about the Nation of Islam. The special introduced millions of Americans to the Hon. Elijah Muhammad, Malcolm X, and The Nation of Islam for the first time. Five years later, Malcolm X would leave the organization. In this video, we explore the reasons why.

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Books:

Lincoln, C. Eric. The Black Muslims in America. Bowker,
https://doi.org/10.1604/9780865433991.
Taylor, Ula Yvette. “The Promise of Patriarchy.” Women and the Nation of Islam, 2017.

Muhammad, Elijah. The Supreme Wisdom - Solution to the So-called NEGROES Problem VOL. 1. 1997. Bowker, https://doi.org/10.1604/9781884855139.

Muhammad, Elijah. The Supreme Wisdom - What Every American So-Called Negro Should Know About - Vol. 2. 1996. Bowker, https://doi.org/10.1604/9781884855191.

Gibson, Dawn-Marie, and Jamillah Karim. “Women of the Nation.” Between Black Protest and Sunni Islam, 2014.
Muhammad, Elijah. The Tricknology of the Enemy. Edited by Nasir Hakim, 1997. Bowker, https://doi.org/10.1604/9781884855214.

Muhammad, Elijah. Message to the Blackman in America. 1965. Bowker, https://doi.org/10.1604/9781929594016.
Gardell, Mattias. “In The Name of Elijah Muhammad.” Louis Farrakhan and the Nation of Islam, 1996. Bowker, https://doi.org/10.1604/9780822318521.

Articles/Journals:

Abdat, Fathie Ali. “The Moorish Science Temple of America.” Handbook of Islamic Sects and Movements, edited by Muhammad Afzal Upal and Carole M. Cusack, Brill, 2021, pp. 673–93. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.....1163/j.ctv1v7zbv8.3 Accessed 29 Dec. 2022.

Melnick, Jeffrey. Black-Jewish Relations on Trial: Leo Frank and Jim Conley in the New South. University Press of Mississippi, 2000. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt2tvfgn. Accessed 20 Jan. 2023.

MacLean, Nancy. “The Leo Frank Case Reconsidered: Gender and Sexual Politics in the Making of Reactionary Populism.” The Journal of American History, vol. 78, no. 3, Oxford UP (OUP), Dec. 1991, p. 917. Crossref, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078796.

“The Little-known Story Behind Marcus Garvey’s Fierce Fight With WEB DuBois - SamePassage.” SamePassage - Truth Untold, 20 Aug. 2020, samepassage.org/the-little-known-story-behind-marcus-garveys-fierce-fight-with-web-dubois.

MUHAMMAD, RICHARD. “Dreams, Delusions and Slander.” Dreams, Delusions and Slander, 18 Jan. 2019, www.finalcall.com/artman/publi....sh/editorials/Dreams

“The Imam’s Next Move : W. Deen Mohammed Has Moved the Black Muslims in His Ministry Toward Reconciliation With Other Races and Religions. Now, He Wants the Nation of Islam Leader Louis Farrakhan to Put Aside His Separatist Sentiments and Join Him.” Los Angeles Times, 4 Aug. 1994, www.latimes.com/archives/la-xp....m-1994-08-04-ls-3328

“Power, Ignorance, and Anti-Semitism: Henry Ford and His War on Jews.” Power, Ignorance, and Anti-Semitism: Henry Ford and His War on Jews, history.hanover.edu/hhr/99/hhr99_2.html. Accessed 20 Jan. 2023.

“Henry Ford and Anti-Semitism: A Complex Story.” Henry Ford and Anti-Semitism: A Complex Story, www.thehenryford.org/collectio....ns-and-research/digi Accessed 20 Jan. 2023.

“Annual 3 Chapter 7.” Annual 3 Chapter 7, www.museumoftolerance.com/educ....ation/archives-and-r Accessed 20 Jan. 2023.

“A Proletarian Critique of the Nation of Islam - Melancholic Troglodytes.” libcom.org, libcom.org/article/proletarian-critique-nation-islam-melancholic-troglodytes. Accessed 20 Jan. 2023.

The Crisis, Vol. 24, No. 5. (September, 1922). https://www.marxists.org/histo....ry/usa/workers/civil

“The Death of Ronald Stokes and the Birth of Black Power in Los Angeles.” CSUN University Library, 4 Apr. 2022, library.csun.edu/SCA/Peek-in-the-Stacks/ronald-stokes.

Research:

Fiske, Susan T. “Managing ambivalent prejudices: The smart-but-cold, and the warm-butdumb sterotypes.” The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science vol. 639,1 (2012): 33-48. doi:10.1177/0002716211418444

Lester, Julius. “BLACKS, JEWS, AND FARRAKHAN.” dissentmagazine.org, June 1994, www.dissentmagazine.org/wp-con....tent/files_mf/165090

Music:

All Music by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Songs:
“Dark Walk”
“Bicycle”
“Clean Soul”
“Dirt Rhodes”
“Dreams Become Real”
“Heavy Heart”
“Over Under”

Moni Tano: The Summer Of Gods- Conversation with Eliciana Nascimiento
Moni Tano: The Summer Of Gods- Conversation with Eliciana Nascimiento Kwadwo Danmeara Tòkunbọ̀ Datɛ 78 Views • 4 years ago

Conversation with Eliciana Nascimiento about The Summer of Gods.

Eliciana's The Summer of Gods follows Lilly, a little Afro Brazilian girl who goes with her mom to visit her grandmother. Her grandmother, a spiritual healer, teaches Lilly of the importance of her roots through stories.
The film is beautifully made and sheds positive light on African descendants practicing their ancestors' spirituality. The little girl playing Lilly is adorable, and the relationships between Lilly and her mother, Lilly and her brother, Lilly and her grandma, are so realistic... so too is the relationship between Lilly and the Orishas.

A gem for African cultural continuity, this film is a must-see for all pan-Africans, all Africans and African Diaspora seeking a clean, positive connection/reconnection to African culture, African spirituality, African religion.

You may shed some tears. But they're the reparative kind, the kind that help you emote as you consider the magnitude of the task ahead of us, only to give you renewed strength as you see that you are not alone, you exist within a continuum of which we are all part, and your efforts are validated and cemented through the space that we all inhabit with our wills, strong a rock, vast and deep as the world of Yemaya herself.

So head over to
www.thesummerofgods.com, purchase the film, enjoy it, and embrace every tear that it pulls from your soul, let it be a part of your own rebirth.

Moni Tano is a pan african perspective on topics big and small, from hair to religion, to economics and so on. It is a small effort at parsing through the highly effective program of mental colonization that we have gone through for generations. We decolonize our minds so as to better represent ourselves as defined by a truly informed and truly critical 'us.'
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