Elijah Muhammad

The charismatic leader at the time was rivaled by his former mentor Elijah Muhammad.

Charming as Street, who spiffs up Malcolm in Boston, the tenor Victor Ryan Robertson largely handles Elijah Muhammad’s muscular high lines but strains to convey his magnetism.

The Sudanese artist narrates the experiences that led him to wide acclaim as a painter challenging paradigms of African, Islamic and “Western” modernism, including encounters with Elijah Muhammad and the African American painter Hale Woodruff.

Appearing in Reader’s Digest, “Mr. Muhammad Speaks” was an in-depth examination of the Nation of Islam, led by Elijah Muhammad, and its growing attraction to Black Americans.

But in 1964, fissures between him and the sect’s leader, Elijah Muhammad, widened into a messy split.