1. John Collins-Muhammad served on the Board of Aldermen of the City of St Louis representing the 21st Ward.
22 Facts About John Collins-Muhammad
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John Collins-Muhammad led protests during the 2014 Ferguson Uprising and is a prominent figure in the Nation of Islam.
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John Collins-Muhammad was raised in North City, St Louis, Missouri in the Greater Ville Neighborhood.
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John Collins-Muhammad has a twin sister, Jazmine who is a public educator, and a younger sister, Kimberly-Ann Collins, who is a Missouri state representative.
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John Collins-Muhammad is a Muslim and is a member of the Nation of Islam under Louis Farrakhan.
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John Collins-Muhammad is an assistant minister at the Nation of Islam temple in St Louis.
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John Collins-Muhammad has strong ties to the St Louis branch of the Moorish Science Temple, a controversial Islamic sect.
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In 2017, John Collins-Muhammad proposed a major redevelopment plan on Natural Bridge Avenue; one of the city's most derelict and less economically developed Corridors.
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John Collins-Muhammad's plan included a blighting, and a 15-year tax abatement on property on Natural Bridge Avenue, and additional funding in Tax Increment Financing to developers.
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In 2018, in response to high freezing temperatures, John Collins-Muhammad gained local media attention for opening up an emergency homeless shelter at St Peter community center in his ward.
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John Collins-Muhammad wrote an open letter to the Missouri Governor to call attention to the homeless epidemic in St Louis.
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John Collins-Muhammad sponsored legislation creating the one dollar housing program; a year-long pilot program aimed at selling residential properties owned by the city's real estate department known as Land Re-utilization Authority for $1.00.
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John Collins-Muhammad was one of the organizers of many protest demonstrations which led to mass arrest and police militia response.
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John Collins-Muhammad gained widespread controversy for presenting an honorary resolution remembering Smith.
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John Collins-Muhammad led the Board of Aldermen in unanimously approving and passing the resolution which sparked outrage from the St Louis police officers association.
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John Collins-Muhammad was arrested by the Florissant Police Department for failure to pay parking and traffic tickets and driving with a suspended license in Fall 2018.
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John Collins-Muhammad had warrants for traffic violations in three St Louis area municipalities.
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John Collins-Muhammad was a leader in the protest movement following the 2014 death of teenager Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri.
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John Collins-Muhammad expressed criticism of police militarization and the way the crisis was handled within the community.
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John Collins-Muhammad assisted in the organizing of rallies, events, and protest demonstrations calling for the resignation of Ferguson Police Chief Tom Jackson and the immediate arrest of police officer Darren Wilson.
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John Collins-Muhammad was fired in 2014 from the Village of Uplands Park in St Louis County for making inflammatory remarks on national television about the shooting of two St Louis area police officers.
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Fellow Ferguson protester and Black Lives Matter surrogate Tory Russell is a known associate of John Collins-Muhammad and served as his campaign manager.