American criminal and religious leader (born 1945)
Dwight York (born June 26, 1945), also known as Malachi Z. York, Issa al-Haadi al-Mahdi, et alii, is an American cult leader, black supremacist, and convicted child molester, best known as the founder of the Nuwaubian Nation, a black supremacist new religious movement that has existed in some form and under various different names since the 1960s. York's origins are contested. After converting to Islam in prison, in 1967 he began preaching to African-Americans in Brooklyn, New York, during the black power movement.
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