IS HE DEAD OR ALIVE?

Khalid Muhammad’s associates insisted last night the firebrand black activist was alive – capping a day of conflicting reports about his fate.

While a top law-enforcement source said the organizer of the Million Youth Marches in Harlem died Thursday night, the national spokeman for his New Black Panther Party said it wasn’t true.

His condition “is serious, it is critical, it is life-threatening. He is not dead,” said Malik Zulu Shabazz.

And Elaine Morgan, a spokeswoman for Wellstar Kennestone Hospital in Marietta, Ga., told The Post the 53-year-old Muhammad “is currently a patient” at the hospital.

The law-enforcement source said Muhammad was rushed to the hospital in a coma Tuesday after suffering a ruptured brain aneurism. Doctors found he was brain-dead.

After a Johns Hopkins doctor concurred in the diagnosis, the source said the family told doctors to withdraw life support Thursday afternoon.

But at a news conference outside the hospital, Shabazz and 10 other New Black Panther Party members – wearing black uniforms and berets – said Muhammad was alive.

Shabazz threatened reporters, saying, “We warn you and your counterparts to stay out of this hospital, or you will meet with severe consequences.”

After joining the Nation of Islam, Muhammad rose through the ranks to become one of Louis Farrakhan’s top lieutenants.

Farrakhan dismissed him after a 1993 Union, N.J., speech during which he referred to Jews as “bloodsuckers,” called the pope a “no-good cracker” and urged the murder of white South Africans.

Muhammad, who became national chairman of the New Black Panther Party, organized the Million Youth Marches that drew, at best, only 6,000 people.

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