Who are the Black Hebrews / Black Israelites?
” Answer: The terms Black Hebrews and Black Israelites refer as a categorical whole to several independent sub-sects whose unifying characteristic is that their members are of black African descent who claim Hebrew / Israelite ancestry. Apart from this unifying characteristic, however, these sub-sects are very distinct from one another. For example, members of The Original African Hebrew Israelite Nation of Jerusalem (or, the African Israelites for short) believe that following the Roman expulsion of the Jews from the land of Israel, many Jews migrated to West Africa. From there their descendants were transported by slave ship to the United States, where the group began in the 1960s. According to this view, the biblical Hebrews of the Old Testament times had multiracial descendants. Members of the Nation of Yahweh, on the other hand, believe that all of the Old Testament prophets, Jesus Christ, and God Himself are all black. They believe that all whites, but especially Jews, are infide
