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The 5 Percent Nation's Impact On Hip-Hop's Golden Era
Malcolm X. Mosque No. 7. Hotel Theresa. Remembering Harlem’s Muslim History.
The 5 Percent Nation's Impact On Hip-Hop's Golden Era
"Manifesting. Building. Letting knowledge be born. In 1986, urban America (and a growing segment of the rest of the country) was experiencing and repeating the Supreme Mathematics of the 5% Nation of The Gods & Earths."
The Five Percent Nation: A Brief History Lesson
Malcolm X. Mosque No. 7. Hotel Theresa. Remembering Harlem’s Muslim History.
The 5 Percent Nation's Impact On Hip-Hop's Golden Era
"The Five Percent Nation medallion worn by hip hop moguls such as Jay Z and Jay Electronica tends to raise a bit of controversy. We unravel the history behind this piece and what it exactly means to be a part of this Five Percent Nation."
Malcolm X. Mosque No. 7. Hotel Theresa. Remembering Harlem’s Muslim History.
Malcolm X. Mosque No. 7. Hotel Theresa. Remembering Harlem’s Muslim History.
Malcolm X. Mosque No. 7. Hotel Theresa. Remembering Harlem’s Muslim History.
"On the last Sunday in July, about 30 people gathered on a warm morning to walk through the Harlem streets for nearly three hours, to visit Muslim-related sites past and present. Many of the places Ms. Merriman pointed out were already gone or transformed beyond recognition."
The life and legacy of Ol’ Dirty Bastard
A Disciple of Malcolm X: Clarence 13X Smith’s Embodied Black God Rhetoric
Malcolm X. Mosque No. 7. Hotel Theresa. Remembering Harlem’s Muslim History.
"A new podcast, hosted by photographer and filmmaker Khalik Allah, seeks to strip away the bombastic persona and paint a more nuanced profile of the man. Over eight episodes, “ODB: A Son Unique“ unpacks the origins and impact of Ol’ Dirty Bastard, his influences — not the least of which was the Five-Percent Nation, an offshoot of the Nation of Islam — his style and the indelible mark he left on hip-hop through interviews with the people closest to him."
A Disciple of Malcolm X: Clarence 13X Smith’s Embodied Black God Rhetoric
A Disciple of Malcolm X: Clarence 13X Smith’s Embodied Black God Rhetoric
A Disciple of Malcolm X: Clarence 13X Smith’s Embodied Black God Rhetoric
"This essay links Clarence 13X Smith and the Five Percent Nation of the Gods and Earths to Malcolm X’s rhetoric about the Black Man as God. Smith, one of Malcolm’s earliest students and chief lieutenants, demonstrates the use of Malcolm’s “Black Man is God” trope as an embodied rhetoric, highlighting its relationship to the African American freedom struggle. This essay illuminates the logic embedded in the language of the Black Muslim tradition."
Hating Whitey Is Not All There Is to the Five Percent
A Disciple of Malcolm X: Clarence 13X Smith’s Embodied Black God Rhetoric
A Disciple of Malcolm X: Clarence 13X Smith’s Embodied Black God Rhetoric
"On April 1, Jay Z showed up at a Brooklyn Nets game sporting a large medallion of the Five Percenters’ Universal Flag. Once white people figured out what the medallion represented—a community founded upon the notion that black men are the supreme beings of the universe—they went ballistic...a New York Post writer named Gary Buiso contacted me for an interview. We talked for nearly an hour and he followed up with more emails and calls as he tried to sort out the story. I made it clear to him that I spoke as an outside researcher, not a card-carrying member of the community. On the subject of “white devils,” I let him know that in my decade with the Five Percent, I was never mistreated on the basis of racial prejudice."
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