25 Facts About Muhammad Kenyatta

In 1975, Kenyatta had an unsuccessful run for Democratic nomination for mayor of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania against Frank Rizzo.

Muhammad Kenyatta was a fellow in the Harvard Divinity School and Harvard Law School and led a boycott against minority hiring practices at Harvard.

Muhammad Kenyatta was active in international human rights education and advocacy through the United Nations and TransAfrica organizations.

Muhammad Kenyatta attended a segregated elementary school and was ordained a minister in the Calvary Baptist Church in Chester at the age of 14.

Muhammad Kenyatta attended Lincoln University in Pennsylvania then joined the United States Air Force at age 17 when he could no longer afford tuition.

In 1981, Muhammad Kenyatta received his bachelor's degree from Williams College.

Muhammad Kenyatta attended Harvard Divinity School, where he was a Merrill Fellow.

Muhammad Kenyatta supported the occupation of a building owned by Quakers demanding they pay reparations.

Muhammad Kenyatta worked for the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, a group that challenged the denial of voting right to African Americans in Mississippi.

Muhammad Kenyatta left Mississippi, but later sued the Government for violating his constitutional right to free speech.

Muhammad Kenyatta gained prominence in the Harvard community as an organizer of a nationally controversial boycott of a Law School civil rights course.

Muhammad Kenyatta was angry about what he saw as indifference to minority concerns at the Law School and had reservations about the teachers that "represent civil rights strategies from the 1950s".

Muhammad Kenyatta thought the affirmative action controversy at the Law School was only a part of a national problem.

Muhammad Kenyatta felt economic issues were the most important concern for Blacks in America at the time and that affirmative action was "a key concept" to help Blacks escape poverty.

Muhammad Kenyatta ran for the Democratic nomination for Mayor of Philadelphia in 1975.

Muhammad Kenyatta did not support Hill and ran for the Democratic nomination himself.

Muhammad Kenyatta denied that he made any deals with Rizzo in exchange for his protest candidacy, however the charges of collusion were supported by the fact that two of his close friends were appointed patronage positions in the Rizzo administration.

Muhammad Kenyatta was vice chairman of the Pan African Skills Project, an international education program including the United States, Tanzania and Ghana and was a permanent representative to the United Nations nongovernmental organizations section.

Muhammad Kenyatta helped to organize the Western New York Chapter of TransAfrica, a Washington-based lobbying group for African and Caribbean interests.

Muhammad Kenyatta was a visiting professor at the University at Buffalo School of Law from 1988 until his death on January 3,1992, at age 47.

Muhammad Kenyatta had long been in ill health, said university officials, who added that the professor had suffered complications from diabetes and was hospitalized at the time of his death.

Muhammad Kenyatta is survived by his wife, Mary Muhammad Kenyatta of Buffalo and a daughter, Luana, of Buffalo.

Muhammad Kenyatta has two sons, Malcolm, of Philadelphia, and Muhammad Santiago, who lives in Virginia, and three brothers and three sisters.

Muhammad Kenyatta's grandson, Malcolm Muhammad Kenyatta, is an active community and LGBT advocate in Philadelphia, and won election to District 181 of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives in 2018, and is a Vice Chair of the Democratic National Committee.

Muhammad Kenyatta was a candidate in the 2022 Democratic primary for Pennsylvania's US Senate seat being vacated by retiring US Senator Pat Toomey.