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Article: An angry 'charmer.' (Louis Farrakhan)(includes related article)(Cover Story)
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- Newsweek
- Article date:
- October 30, 1995
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Louis Farrakhan has always been a man of many faces. Now the calypso singer turned separatist wants to move into the mainstream of American politics. Even blacks are divided about his appeal - but they're listening.
As a youth, Louis Farrakhan was "The Charmer," a $500-a-week calypso singer who could transfix a nightclub crowd with his ukulele and clever lyrics. But in the four decades since joining the Nation of Islam, he's become a spellbinding performer on another stage, and with a different instrument: his own deep hatred of the white-run power structure in America. He is king of an angry carnival.
So it wasn't easy for him to relax on the night after the ...