Ava Muhammad (November 9,1951 – 25 August 2022) was an American Black Muslim. In 1998 she became the first female Minister to preside over a

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and region in the history of the

Nation of Islam The Nation of Islam (NOI) is a religious organization founded in the United States by Wallace Fard Muhammad in 1930. A centralized and hierarchical organization, the NOI is committed to black nationalism and focuses its attention on the Afr ...

(NOI). Her job as national spokesperson for Minister Farrakhan was among the most prominent in the organization — a post formerly held by

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under former Nation of Islam leader Elijah Muhammad. Minister Ava Muhammad was also a member of the Muslim Girls Training (MGT). In addition to administering day-to-day affairs at the mosque Muhammad was named Southern Regional Minister, giving her jurisdiction over Nation of Islam mosque activity in Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, and parts of Tennessee.

Biography

In 1975 she received her Juris Doctor from

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Law Center. She later became a member of the New York Bar Association. She married Darius Muhammad in 1988; she was a lawyer, minister, and also the National Spokesperson for the Minister

Louis Farrakhan Louis Farrakhan (; born Louis Eugene Walcott; May 11, 1933) is an American religious leader who heads the Nation of Islam (NOI), a Black nationalism, black nationalist organization. Farrakhan is notable for his leadership of the 1995 Million M ...

and the

. She was a researcher and author of several books and hosted a weekly radio talk show title
"Elevated Places"
which airs every Sunday on WVON 1690AM in Chicago. Dr. Muhammad was also a cancer survivor. She had talked about overcoming it in the past, but recently, she spoke about he
life-changing journey in extraordinary detail
in recognition of Cancer Survivors Month in the United States.

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