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Hon. Minister Louis Farrakhan speaks to thousands in downtown Detroit at Huntington Place on Saviours' Day on Feb. 25, 2024, expressing sympathy for Palestinians and Jews killed in recent months.
Louis Farrakhan (/ ˈ f ɑːr ə k ɑː n /; born Louis Eugene Walcott; May 11, 1933) is an American religious leader who heads the Nation of Islam (NOI), a black nationalist organization. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Farrakhan is notable for his leadership of the 1995 Million Man March in Washington, D.C., and for his rhetoric that has been widely denounced as ...
At the convention's keynote address, Farrakhan announced his attempt to restore the Nation of Islam under Elijah Muhammad's teachings. [110] In a 2000s interview featuring both Louis Farrakhan and Warith Deen Muhammad, Farrakhan argued that "Master Fard Muhammad taught us to accept our own and to be ourselves.
Farrakhan gave a speech titled A Torchlight for America on October 18, 1992, at the Georgia Dome with 55,000 people attending. [1] In 1993, Farrakhan publish an expanded form of the speech through FCN Publishing. [2] The book is anti-prison, suggesting that rehabilitation is best achieved through Islam, in particular for Black Muslims. [3]
Farrakhan held the 20th Anniversary of the Million Man March: Justice or Else on October 10, 2015, in Washington, D.C. [19] [20] [21] The New York Times published an opinion piece by Charles M. Blow, who found it difficult to "separate the march from the messenger", and criticized Minister Farrakhan's speech, calling it homophobic and ...
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In the June 6 assault in Ocean Beach, three men, ages 19, 20 and 21, were chased by members of the Hells Angels gang. Two were severely beaten.
The Nation of Islam uses the British spelling version of the word saviour, rather than the American spelling savior.The Nation of Islam under Louis Farrakhan's leadership places a possessive apostrophe at the end of the word, emphasising the plural to indicate that “Black men and women must be the ‘saviours’ of themselves and their communities.”