The Five Percenters: Islam, Hip hop and the Gods of New York by Michael Muhammad Knight

The Five Percenters: Islam, Hip hop and the Gods of New York

Michael Muhammad Knight

328 pages • first pub 2007 (editions)

nonfiction history religion challenging informative reflective fast-paced
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Sensationalized and reviled as the Hell’s Angels of Black America, the Five Percenters (also known as the Nation of Gods and Earths) began as a cluster of outcasts from the Nation of Islam’s Harlem mosque in the 1960s. Led by a man named Allah, th...

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