Brian E. Williams

Born December 16,1965 in Brooklyn, New York to Bennie Lee and Marjorie Williams, Brian Williams grew up in Laurelton, Queens.  He recalled the milkman delivering real milk at 5am. “I can remember as a child, the milkman dropping off fresh milk and taking the old bottles.”

Brian attended parochial schools in his early education years. He graduated from Springfield Gardens High School.  After graduation, he attended HBCU Morgan State University, where he started gravitating towards organizations on campus that he felt displayed some level of consciousness. In that searching, he met Kwame Ture (formerly Stokely Carmichael) and began studying with the All African People’s Revolutionary Party (AAPRP). Growing up, Brian, as young as four or five years old, felt particularly sensitive to the plight of black people. “I wasn’t exposed to anything that early, but it was something in me,” he once shared in an interview.

On campus, he encountered a poster with a roster of names such as Jesse Jackson, Kwame Ture and the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan to appear at a convention in Chicago.  He soon discovered it was an advertisement for the Nation of Islam’s Saviours' Day Convention.  The Department of Communication’s Director was M.G.T. Captain Sister Dr. Claudette X [McFadden] of Muhammad Mosque No. 6 who was the impetus for his joining the Nation of Islam.  Sister Velma Muhammad was the first to welcoming Bro. Brian to Muhammad Mosque No. 6.

Bro. Brian returned to New York City, where he became a registered member of the Nation of Islam at Muhammad Mosque No. 7 in 1985.  Shortly after registering, he was given his first assignment in the Nation of Islam, working with the newly implemented “fish program.” Bro. Brian answered the phone and took orders. “Every morning at 9 am Bro. Wazir Muhammad MABP, [former Mosque No. 7 Secretary and National Business Accountant] called, without fail, and I better be at my desk. He was no joke,” Bro. Brian recalled of first job.

Soon, thereafter, he began being placed on assignments with Brother Abdul Akbar Muhammad, the International Student Minister of the Nation of Islam, by the then Student Secretary, Bro. James L. Muhammad.

In 1992, he joined Student Minister Abdul Akbar Muhammad, Kwame Ture and others, on a trip to Egypt and Ghana, Africa marking his first visit out of the country.

In December 1993, Student Minister Abdul Akbar Muhammad asked him if he would live in Accra, Ghana to assist his team to prepare for the Nation of Islam’s first International Saviours’ Day in Africa. Bro. Brian along with a staff of nine people including the family of Student Minister Abdul Akbar, Sister Velma Muhammad and Sister Brenda Muhammad, went on to live in Africa for several years, aiding the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan’s International Student Minister in spreading the Teachings of the Most Honorable Elijah Muhammad and developing relationships.  He was also instrumental in overseeing the construction of the Alex Haley Mosque in the village of Juffure, Gambia, West Africa, which was donated by Minister Farrakhan. Marking another great milestone in his life, he accompanied Minister Farrakhan’s delegation on the 1996 World Friendship Tour.

In the late 1990’s Bro. Brian began, periodically, making contributions to the Final Call Newspaper and later became a beloved and cherished staff writer, where his primary focus was global affairs.  “It is imperative, as the Minister desires, to make known the international thrust of the Nation of Islam,” Bro. Brian shared.  “The experience to say the least was life changing. It placed me on a trajectory that I had not planned nor calculated. It propelled me into a world of service that brought me face to face with the global vision of the Most Honorable Elijah Muhammad of reconnecting the Original Family worldwide through His National Representative, the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan.”

After many years living abroad, Bro. Brian Muhammad returned to the U.S., settling in Columbia, S.C. where he became the Student Assistant Minister and F.O.I. Orientation Instructor of Muhammad Mosque No. 38. He also established the Global Peeks Podcast.

Brother Brian was preceded in death by his parents, Bennie Lee and Marjorie Williams, his brothers Rodney Williams and Eric Williams.

He leaves to cherish his memory his big brother, J. Michael Williams; loving sisters, Mary McClary and Angela Guy; his beloved aunt, Shirley McClary; and a host of nieces, nephews, cousins and friend; and a Nation of Brothers and Sisters who loved him dearly.

“…Surely we are Allah’s, and to Him we shall return. Those are they on whom are blessings and mercy from their Lord; and those

are the followers of the right course.”

                                                                                 ~Holy Qur’an, 2:156-157

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