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3. Other Newspapers and Publications h addition to the above-mentioned newspapers, articles 7 _, concerning the NOI and columns by NOI leaders have appeared on numerous occasions in the New York Amsterdam News, * the New Jersey Herald News, * | | the St. Louis Argus, * and the Afro-American.* Articles favorable to Elijah L. | : Muhammad and the NOI also have appeared in the publications, Ebony* and a | the Moslem World and the U.8.A.* The effort expended by NOI members in selling the publications mentioned above can be shown by the commissions paid to the NOI by Ebony magazine. In the Spring of 1958, NOI officials and vee ae . et ren at oe ne the publishers of Ebony made arrangements for NOI members to sell annual if _ subscriptions to the magazine. Part of the money from each sale was 4 forwarded to the publishers, and the remainder was retained by the NOI. “From May to September, 1958, Ebony publishers paid commissions of more | : than $13,000 for the sale of nearly 8,000 magazine subscriptions by members __ of the Chicago NOI temple. qq In March, 1960, The New Crusader, a weekly Negro newspaper fe atl cade tenes ee _! published in Chicago, started to regularly carry Muhammad's column, as well as other articles about the NOI. As with other papers, . “The New York Amsterdam News, New Jersey Hernia ews, and ot. nouls _d&rgus are Negro weekly newspapers; the Afro-American, national iseue, ig a Negro semiweekly newspaper; Ebony magazine is a Negro monthly; and -Moslem World and the U.S.A. is not now in publication, but this magazine was irregularly published as an attempt, according to the editor, to promote (g:5u3" understanding between Islam and the West. =~ 33: - wt atlas ame