I'm familiar with both locations (and I first learned about Five Percent/Gods and Earths in Bushwick a long time ago), but my knowledge of the Nation of Islam derives mostly from the time I spent living on 52nd Street and Kenwood in Chicago - exactly three blocks south of Mr. Farrakhan's pulpit and five blocks from his mansion.
In my neighborhood I had to wait until 7 a.m. for the Trib, but I could buy The Final Call at 5 the morning it came out.
I spent living on 52nd Street and Kenwood in Chicago - exactly three blocks south of Mr. Farrakhan's pulpit and five blocks from his mansion. Do you realize that there is now a Starbucks a little more than a block away from your old pad (I think its on 53rd and Woodlawn if memory serves). The NOI used to hang out there when they weren't selling "The Final Call."
I lived at 60th and Drexel when I was at U of C. You lived in a better part of the neighborhood.