A poet, columnist, and photographer, Muhammad was News Director for WPFW-FM, a columnist for The Washington Informer, and a commentator on NPR’s “All Things for Considered.” He was honored multiple times by the National Association of Black Journalists. Other honors included a DC Mayor’s Award for Excellence in Service to the Arts, and a DC City Council resolution honoring his writings on race in 2009.
Born Charles K. Moreland, Jr. in Yazoo City, Mississippi, Muhammad was raised in Los Angeles, and became active in the Nation of Islam and changed his name in 1969. He started his career in journalism working for the Nation’s publications Muhammad Speaks and The Final Call. Muhammad moved to DC in 1977, and worked as a White House correspondent for the Chicago Defender over the course of nine presidential administrations.
He was the author of three books: The Autobiography of Charles 67X, a collection of personal essays, poems, and photographs about his experiences as a journalist (2018), Black Muslim Millennium (2017), and and Behind Enemy Lines (1996). His articles and photographs appeared widely, in such journals as The Nation, Jet, The Baltimore Sun, USA Today, the Boston Globe, and the Washington Post.
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