Yosef ben jochannan elijah muhammad

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          Yosef ben-Jochannan, one of the last of the Harlem activist-intellectuals of the 20th century—those fiery, independent scholars who taught.

        1. Later I was told of her position as Sister Tynetta Muhammad, wife of Elijah Muhammad.
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        3. African History Club recording of a speech by Dr. Yosef Ben-Jochannan on Founder's Day Shared for historical purposes.
        4. The meeting between the Honorable Elijah Muhammad and Dr Martin Luther King Jr. in forged a unity between the two spiritual leaders of.

          5. It was over 25 years ago that I was first introduced to the works of our beloved "Dr. Ben." I was a grass roots organizer for an anti-poverty program in Montgomery County (Dayton), Ohio. The late 60s and early 70s were turbulent times and many young black "revolutionaries" (including myself) had become disillusioned with religion.

          We believed as did Karl Marx that "religion was an opiate of the people" designed to anesthetize the minds of the many and line the pockets of the unscrupulous few. We preached that the so-called major western religions were white folk’s religions and offered the historically incorrect but universally accepted blond-haired, blue-eyed representation of Jesus Christ as proof that our enemy had become our deity.

          We quoted Dr. Carter G. Woodson, who said in his book, The Mis-education of the Negro, that the European destruction of African civilization was done under the guise of "saving souls." And we asked the rhetorical question, must one be dehumanized befo