I feel about the Trowbridge article quoted as you do; reminds of Lame Cherry but with better grammar. Just a whole lot of way over-cleverness that is so convoluted as to appear purposefully confusing. Maybe with a small (teeny) nugget of something true (or possibly) to lure people.
It was the image on page 18 of Muhammad Speaks that was interesting, and I imagine she got that lead from Erik Rush, probably part of his research for the book Negrophilia
Muhammad Speaks was the publication of NOI which grew considerably in circulation due MX's promotion.
A remembrance: Fred Newman, 1935-2011 from New York Amsterdam News
Was Fred Newman (Communist subversive) Valerie Newman Sarruf’s dad? Did he get her the job on the paper? Did she write the obituary for her lover Malcolm X?