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Louis Farrakhan
Louis Farrakhan is an American religious leader who has been the head of the Nation of Islam since 1981, a new religious movement which combines black nationalism and Islamic terminology. Prior to the NOI, Farrakhan was a calypso singer who used the stage name Calypso Gene from 1950 to 1955 and a violinist from 1939 to 1955. The longest-serving NOI leader, he also served as minister of several mos…
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culture · American religious leader (born 1933) · singer · civil rights advocate · journalist · politician · violinist · anti-vaccine activist · Muslim minister · black supremacist · religious leader · musician · also Louis Farrakhan, Louis Farrakhan Muhammad, Sr., Louis Eugene Wolcott, Louis X, Farrakhan
Born 11 May 1933 · Q49075
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2026· 8 entries
“But he has turned into someone else,”
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“Now that nation called Israel never has had any peace in 40 years and she will never have any peace because there can be no peace structured on injustice, thievery, lying and deceit and using the name of God to shield your dirty religion under His holy and righteous name. After it was reported that Farrakhan called Judaism the”
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Public attention spiked: 10,401 Wikipedia readers in one day, 4.1× the usual 2,545, with 0 article edits.
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Politico: Louis Farrakhan's wife, Khadijah Farrakhan, dies at 90
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Public attention spiked: 35,390 Wikipedia readers in one day, 13.9× the usual 2,545, with 7 article edits. Coverage that week: “Louis Farrakhan's wife, Khadijah Farrakhan, dies at 90” (Politico).
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Public attention spiked: 8,762 Wikipedia readers in one day, 3.4× the usual 2,545, with 1 article edits.
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nytimes.com: Louis Farrakhan
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2023· 1 entry
New York Post: Louis Farrakhan files $5B defamation suit against ADL over ‘false’ antisemitism claims
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2021· 1 entry
To celebrate the 250th anniversary of Beethoven's birth, Farrakhan performed Violin Concerto in D Major Op
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2020· 1 entry
Was carried by Revolt TV's YouTube channel, He claimed Jonathan Greenblatt, the head of the anti-bigotry nonprofit Anti-Defamation League, is Satan, and described Alan Dershowitz as "a skillful deceiver" and "Satan masqu
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2019· 4 entries
The Guardian: Louis Farrakhan denies antisemitism – then refers to 'Satanic Jews'
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At the Nation of Islam's annual Saviour's Day gathering, Farrakhan declared, "I represent the Messiah
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“I represent the Messiah. I represent the Jesus and I am that Jesus”
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Along with other public figures Meta considered to be political or religious extremists, and the official Nation of Islam YouTube channel was removed for "hate speech" in 2020
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2018· 6 entries
Yahoo: Louis Farrakhan Defends Kanye West: Rapper ‘Was Right’ About 13th Amendment (Video)
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The Forward: Louis Farrakhan Had Every Right To Be At Aretha Franklin’s Funeral
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The Guardian: Netflix won't stream Louis Farrakhan film after 'internal miscommunication'
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The Washington Post rated the claim “Keith Ellison ‘had no additional involvement with March organizer Louis Farrakhan or his organizations"” Four Pinocchios.
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Farrakhan again praised Trump for "destroying every enemy that was an enemy of our rise"
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Farrakhan's eldest son, Louis Farrakhan Jr., died on June 2, 2018.
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2017· 1 entry
Snopes rated the claim “During a speech in which he declared Jesus Christ his "redeemer," Muslim leader Louis Farrakhan gave indications that he was breaking with Islam in favor of following Christianity.” False.
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2015· 2 entries
Led the 20th Anniversary of the Million Man March: Justice or Else
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“White people deserve to die, and they know, so they think it”
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2012· 1 entry
And 2017 speeches, he said the American government were behind 9/11
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2011· 3 entries
Farrakhan, speaking at the American Clergy Leadership Conference, lambasted Obama over the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and the intervention in Libya, calling him an "assassin" and a "murderer"
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Farrakhan said President Obama's action in supporting the rebels in Libya were going to advance the arrival of UFOs, or divine spaceships, as punishments for black sufferings
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“s action in supporting the rebels in Libya were going to advance the arrival of UFOs, or divine spaceships, as punishments for black sufferings. Depicting Obama as engulfed by the people surrounding him, he said:”
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2010· 2 entries
Farrakhan publicly announced his embrace of Dianetics and has actively encouraged Nation of Islam members to undergo auditing from the Church
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The Nation of Islam has been hosting its own Dianetic courses and its own graduation ceremonies
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2008· 1 entry
Farrakhan publicly criticized the United States and supported then-Senator Barack Obama who was campaigning at the time to become the president of the United States of America
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2007· 2 entries
The Guardian: Louis Farrakhan, defender of faiths
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Farrakhan was released from his five-week hospital stay on January 28, 2007, after major abdominal surgery.
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2006· 1 entry
Farrakhan announced that he was seriously ill in a letter on September 11, 2006.
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2005· 2 entries
Together with other prominent African Americans such as the New Black Panther Party leader Malik Zulu Shabazz, the activist Al Sharpton, Addis Daniel and others, Farrakhan marked the 10th anniversary of the Million Man M
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Farrakhan stated that there was a 25-foot (7
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2002· 2 entries
Farrakhan visited Kahal Kadosh Shaare Shalom in Kingston, Jamaica, which was his first visit to a synagogue, in an attempt to repair his relationship with the Jewish community
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The Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts ruled that it was legal for Donaldson to be turned away because the public accommodation laws of Massachusetts did not require women to be admitted to a men's mosque meeting; a
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2001· 1 entry
The Guardian: Profile: Louis Farrakhan
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2000· 1 entry
“I may have been complicit in words that I spoke”
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1999· 1 entry
Released album “Calypso Favorites 1953-1954”.
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1996· 1 entry
And met with the country's leading Islamist political figure, Necmettin Erbakan, and his Welfare Party's officials
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1993· 1 entry
Farrakhan made his return concert debut with performances of the Violin Concerto in E Minor by Felix Mendelssohn
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1987· 2 entries
In The New York Times' Sunday magazine and on the front page of The Atlanta Constitution, the truth of my vision was verified, for the headlines of The Atlanta Constitution read, 'President Reagan Planned War Against Lib
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“In 1987, in The New York Times”
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1985· 2 entries
Farrakhan said of the Jews: "And don't you forget, when it's God who puts you in the ovens, it's forever
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Farrakhan obtained working capital in the amount of $5 million, in the form of an interest-free loan from Libya's Islamic Call Society to be repaid within 18 months which was to be used to create a toiletries firm with b
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1981· 2 entries
Farrakhan and his supporters held their first Saviours' Day convention in Chicago, Illinois, and took back the name of the Nation of Islam
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Officially adopted the name "Nation of Islam", reviving the group and establishing its headquarters at Mosque Maryam
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1979· 1 entry
Farrakhan's group founded a weekly newspaper entitled The Final Call, which was intended to be similar to the original Muhammad Speaks newspaper that Malcolm X claimed to have started
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1978· 1 entry
Farrakhan distanced himself from Mohammed's movement
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1973· 2 entries
“My time is up. I believe … that my time to be with my spiritual father and his sender has come. And your time to go through serious trial has come.”
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“Our lips are full of praise, but our hearts are far removed from the prophets we all claim. That's why the world is in the shape that it's in.”
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1965· 1 entry
Elijah Muhammad appointed Farrakhan to two prominent positions that Malcolm held before being dismissed from the NOI
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1955· 1 entry
Walcott fulfilled the requirements to be a registered Muslim/registered believer/registered laborer
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1953· 1 entry
Walcott married Betsy Ross (later known as Khadijah Farrakhan) while he was in college
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1946· 1 entry
Was one of the first black performers to appear on the Ted Mack Original Amateur Hour, where he also won an award
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1936· 1 entry
The Walcott family moved to Boston, where they settled in the largely African-American neighborhood of Roxbury
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1933· 2 entries
Born 1933-05-11.
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“s teachings. On October 24, 1989, at a press conference at the J.W. Marriott Hotel in Washington, D.C., Farrakhan described a vision which he had on September 17, 1985 in Tepoztlán, Mexico. In the vision, he was carried up to”
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