Email Author Peter Noel

1999 Stories by Peter Noel

• Nations of Islam at War

  published May 18, 1999

  When firebombers lobbed an arsenal of molotov cocktails into a tiny mosque in Washington, D.C., last month, officials in the Atlanta-based... More >>

• Louima Time

  published May 11, 1999

  Abner Louima's father, Jean, winced and buried his face in his hands as a defense lawyer played back a videotape of his son's first news... More >>

• Race Under Fire

  published May 11, 1999

  Eric Leroy Covington contends that had he not made it appear that he was being insensitive to a Jewish personnel investigator who was upset over... More >>

• Rudy Kisses Butts

  published April 27, 1999

  By defiantly embracing Rudy Giuliani in the throes of a popular movement led by some activists who have compared the mayor to Hitler, Reverend... More >>

• Return To Ground Zero

  published April 13, 1999

  Amid growing fears that he is headed for another tense showdown with the city, Million Youth March organizer Khallid Abdul Muhammad vows that... More >>

• Father of the Movement

  published March 30, 1999

  It has been six hours since the Reverend Al Sharpton orchestrated the largest multi-ethnic sit-in of his 15-day campaign of civil disobedience in... More >>

• Who is Gunning for Ex-Farrakhan Spokesmen?

  published March 23, 1999

  Khallid Abdul Muhammad and his top aide, Quannel X, say that Texas federal agents have notified them of a plot in a Nation of Islam mosque to kill... More >>

• In the Shadow of Death

  published March 16, 1999

  Louis Farrakhan, the controversial leader of the Nation of Islam, who is suffering from prostate cancer, may be dying. But it is not the cancer... More >>

• It Takes a Woman

  published March 9, 1999

  In a move aimed at encouraging white celebrities to voice outrage over the police killing of her son, the mother of Amadou Diallo is seeking to... More >>

• Raising Patrick Bailey

  published March 2, 1999

  For the past 16 months, Lloyd and Evadine Bailey, Jamaican immigrants mending broken dreams, have been living the ultimate American nightmare.... More >>

• Bring Me The Head

  published February 2, 1999

  In an upcoming biography of black power advocate Kwame Ture, Eric T. Muhammad claims that on his deathbed Ture confessed to knowing about a black... More >>

• A Bullet For Big Baby Jesus

  published January 26, 1999

  It was almost a quarter past eight on the evening of Dr. Martin Luther King's birthday when a police siren from an unmarked black car with a... More >>

• Murder on a Liquor High

  published January 12, 1999

  About 20 past midnight on the wintry day of December 6, James Harris, a bumbling 15-year-old roughneck high on Alizé liqueur, hovered... More >>

• One in the Chamber

  published January 5, 1999

  An undercover cop, who prosecutors formally accused last month of lying to the FBI to protect colleagues charged with torturing Abner Louima,... More >>