Nation of Gods and Earths
The Harlem-founded Five Percenters, an offshoot of the Nation of Islam.
The Five-Percent Nation, also called the Five Percenters or the Nation of Gods and Earths (NGE), is a black supremacist movement influenced by the Nation of Islam. It was founded in 1964 in Harlem, Manhattan, by Clarence 13X, a former Nation of Islam member previously known as Clarence Edward Smith.
Quick Facts
- Founded
- 1964, Harlem, New York City
- Founder
- Clarence 13X (Clarence Edward Smith)
- Also known as
- Five Percenters, NGE
- Origin
- Offshoot of the Nation of Islam
Lore & Background
Members call themselves Allah's Five Percenters, reflecting the idea that ten percent of the world's people are elites and their agents who know the truth and keep eighty-five percent in ignorance, while the remaining five percent know the truth and are determined to enlighten the rest.
Reader's Guide
The Nation teaches that Black people are the original people of the Earth and therefore the fathers (Gods) and mothers (Earths) of civilization, and that the Supreme Mathematics and Supreme Alphabet, principles created by Allah the Father, are the key to understanding humankind's relationship to the universe. Clarence 13X founded it after leaving the Nation of Islam's Temple No. 7 in Harlem, where Malcolm X had been minister from 1960 to 1963.
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