Harlem commemorated the legacy of Elijah Muhammad by co-naming the intersection of 127th Street and Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Blvd.
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“This is a great day where we pay homage to the Most Honorable Elijah Muhammad,” moderator Julius Tajiddin began, before acknowledging an absent Councilwoman Kristin Richardson Jordan and several others who supported the campaign for the renaming. Then Sister Shanni read the proclamation. Yusef Salaam, a member of the Exonerated Five, added, “When you come through a door, you have to acknowledge that door. You have to be able to speak truth to power because if it were not for that door, we wouldn’t be the people we are today.”
Muhammad’s granddaughter Llaila described her grandmother, Clara, as “a wife who was brave and a worker. She introduced her husband to their teacher, W.D. Fard. We have this, but it cannot stop. We have too much work to do.”
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