Talib Ahmad Dawood (formerly Alfonso Nelson Rainey,Cf. Robert Dannin: Black Pilgrimage to Islam. New York: Oxford University Press, 2002, S. 58 born January 26, 1923, on Antigua; died 9 July 1999, New York City) was an American jazz trumpeter.
In 1954 he married Sayida Fazl of Cleveland, Ohio, his second marriage. They bore a daughter Rafiqa and his second son Idris after having a son Farouq by his first marriage.
In 1958 he then married the singer Dakota Staton. He was no longer working as an active musician since 1959 and operated an Africa-Import Shop in New York City. As a member of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, which distanced itself from the Nation of Islam, he wrote numerous articles in the African-American Chicago daily New Crusader on the controversy between Elijah Muhammad and Malcolm X. "MALCOLMOLOGY 101, #18: NOI ANSWERS MUSLIM CRITICS", Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention, March 14, 2011.
In his later years he took up the study of martial arts in his native country Antigua, and became a multi degree black belt in three disciplines and sensei.
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