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...imagine as a summit between Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X. Last week 125 members of the First A.M.E. Church, the oldest and most influential black congregation in the city, traveled to a nearby mosque to worship with so-called black Muslims from the notorious Nation of Islam. The following night the Muslims reciprocated by attending a service at the church...
Less than a decade ago, many blacks regarded the Nation of Islam as little more than bow-tied black nationalists, peddling bean pies and hawking newspapers on street corners from Harlem to Watts. While they commanded respect for their neat appearance and abstinence from cigarettes, alcohol and drugs, the Muslims' rigid religious strictures and separatist political views kept them on the fringes of mainstream black America...
...black male," says Joseph H. Duff, president of the Los Angeles branch of the N.A.A.C.P. "And Muslims have always been a symbol of strong black manhood." In Los Angeles more than 1,000 black men, many of them former gang members, have recently joined the Nation of Islam. One new recruit is James Johnson, 18. "They told me how we were killing ourselves and showed me what's really going on in society," says Johnson. "Minister Farrakhan has a way of getting your attention...
Farrakhan's voice and the impact of his group's antidrug and anticrime work are resonating far beyond the boundaries of the Nation of Islam. Black filmmaker Spike Lee has spotlighted Farrakhan in his two most recent movies, School Daze and Do the Right Thing, and rap artists like Public Enemy, Big Daddy Kane and others are now wearing the Islamic star and crescent...
...compromises on acid rain and auto emissions leave environmentalists and business still squabbling. -- Muslim Comeback: The fight against crime and drugs gives new clout to the Nation of Islam. -- Iran-Contra: Poindexter is the scandal's ultimate fall...