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Dwight York, later known to his followers as Malachi Z. York, began preaching to Black audiences in Brooklyn in the late 1960s after converting to Islam. Over the following decades he built a succession of organizations under changing names and theologies, a pattern of reinvention that eventually settled on the Nuwaubian Nation of Moors as the movement's lasting identity.
In 1993 the movement relocated from New York to a compound it built near Eatonton, Georgia, called Tama-Re. The site combined ancient Egyptian architectural imagery, pyramids and sphinxes raised in rural Putnam County, with York's own evolving teachings, which drew on esoteric and UFO themes alongside Black nationalist and Islamic material absorbed from his earlier organizations over the prior two decades.
Even a basic fact as ordinary as his birth date is disputed in the sources: York himself and an FBI report both give June 26, 1945, while an outside critic has instead claimed 1935. That uncertainty about his own biography sits inside a movement whose founder rewrote his organization's name and theology repeatedly across four decades, ending with the Georgia compound that gave the Nuwaubian Nation its most visible and widely documented public identity.