On February 20, 2004 The Michigan Daily reported, "Speaking last night at the Michigan Union to more than 100 Ann Arbor residents and students, Warith Deen Mohammed said the identity of skin color has to end. He called on members of the Muslim community to reclaim their identity, not only as Muslims or as blacks, but also to think themselves as human beings above all...
On December 19, 2003 The Associated Press reported, "The nation's largest black Muslim organization, decimated in recent months by the resignation of founder Warith Deen Mohammed and other leaders, has hit bottom but can still be salvaged, according to a Newark...
On December 3, 2003 the Chicago Tribune reported that "three months after W. Deen Mohammed resigned from the Chicago-based American Society of Muslims, a preacher from New Jersey has vowed to reconstitute the group and accelerate the integration of its 1.5 million African-American members into the country's...
On September 26, 2003 The Philadelphia Inquirer reported that Imam Earl Abdulmalik Mohammed, the national emissary of Imam W.D. Mohammed, who resigned last month as head of the American Society of Muslims, was coming to speak in Philadelphia, to "pave the way" for a Nov. 2 talk by W.D. Mohammed. "The Chicago-based statesman [W.D. Mohammed], a widely respected spiritual...
On September 10, 2003 Beliefnet.com ran an editorial column by Precious Muhammad, a Pluralism Project research affiliate, on her experience of W.D. Mohammed's leadership while growing up as an African-American Muslim. She writes, "Imam Mohammed's teachings... incubated the desire within me to become a scholar of religion and champion of peace. I recall fondly how my siblings and I would listen to...
On September 9, 2003, Beliefnet.com ran an article on "the story behind W.D. Mohammed's momentous break with his father and his alliance with Malcolm X."
On September 6, 2003, The Sacramento Bee reported that " [Imam W.D.] Mohammed resigned...saying he was frustrated that some of his ministers have not fully embraced the religious teachings of mainstream Islam.
Although he had scuttled old racial rhetoric, changed the group's name and moved his followers into line with traditional, or Sunni, Islam, Mohammed,...
On September 5, 2003, PBS's Religion and Ethics Newsweeky featured an interview with Geneive Abdo, religion reporter for the Chicago Tribune, who spoke with W.D. Mohammed after his resignation.