The New York City Council on Thursday approved a plan to name a Harlem block in honor of Elijah Muhammad, the controversial late leader of the Nation of Islam. The bid to name the intersection of W.

In a city where statues and schools have been named after one-time pimps, slave owners and wagers of war, it is not at all surprising that a street could be named for a man who called white people ...

The strange story of Elijah Muhammad, leader of the Nation of Islam and onetime mentor of Malcolm X. Rarely one to miss an occasion for poetry (or publicity), Jesse Jackson waxed eloquent at the ...