Saviours’ Day 2007: All roads lead to Detroit
Saviours' Day 2007 (Official Site) Detroit Mayor welcomes Nation for Saviours' Day (SD2007.com) DETROIT, MI (FinalCall.com) - Whether you’re on 10 East coming from Los Angeles or Houston, 75 North from Florida, 70 West from DC or 80 West from New York, all roads, for many in the Black community will lead to Detroit for the crowning event of...
Allah (God) is curtailing America on all its sides Billions in damages with Hurricane Ida, the latest Act of God to ravage the country
by Tariqah Muhammad and Shawntell Muhammad The Final Call @TheFinalCall In a time of continued natural disasters and destruction, Hurricane Ida struck the Gulf Coast, leaving behind a path of devastation, and projections that it will take millions of dollars and years to return things to normal. Early reports of few lives lost were tempered by the reality that there would be...
Black students building community at schools
by Grace King The Gazette CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (AP)—Washington High School senior Deon Harrison, 17, wants Black students in the Cedar Rapids Community School District to realize their “great potential,” succeed academically and become leaders of their schools. Harrison is a member of Washington’s Black Student Union, an organization working to build up a community of Black students at all four...
A Black Florida couple stood their ground, now they face attempted murder charges
Diamonds Ford, a 29-year-old mother, wife and business owner, is being charged with her first felony. The morning of Sept. 28, 2020, set off a chain of events that would leave her and her then fiancé now husband Anthony Gantt in jail facing charges of attempted murder and facing life in prison. Though the two are now out on...
‘There is no real reason for us to kill each other’
Contributing Editor CHICAGO - The Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan was embraced by crowds of mostly young Black men on the West Side of Chicago as he crisscrossed the Austin community to deliver a message of inspiration, self-knowledge and pride in an effort to stop the senseless gun violence that has gripped many communities across the country. “There is no...
‘When you’re Black, you’re never blue enough’: The experiences of Black women in policing
Former Boston Police Officer Brenda James has been fighting alone for over a decade. She began her career in the early 1990s after a tumultuous time in the city of Boston, where racism is known to be pervasive, according to her written interview with The Final Call. Ms. James was entrusted to be one of the faces of community policing...
Mumia Abu Jamal court victories finally win new trial
WASHINGTON—Mumia Abu-Jamal, the Pennsylvania political prisoner who spent more than 20 years on death row for a crime he insists he did not commit, moved closer to possible exoneration and freedom in mid-December. The state’s Supreme Court dismissed Dec. 16 a challenge by the Fraternal Order of Police (FOP) Lodge Five and Maureen Faulkner, the widow of Philadelphia Police Officer...
Capturing Black history through the legendary lens of Roy Lewis
WASHINGTON—To say that Roy Lewis is a legendary photographer is an understatement. He is a cinematographer on an Oscar-awarded film, a photographic griot, a visual historian. Through his lenses, he has documented 60 years of Black history. “Roy Lewis’s primary concern has been to be a real organic part of local, national, and global Black community,” James Early, Assistant Secretary...
Nashville Prison Reform Ministry’An Example Of 10,000 Fearless
By Flarrie K. Muhammad Surah 110 in the Holy Qur'an: Al-Nasr (The Help) states, “In the Name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful. When Allah's help and victory comes, And thou seest men entering the religion of Allah in companies, Celebrate the praise of thy Lord and ask His protection. Surely He is ever Returning (to mercy).” The city of Nashville...
Justice for Ahmaud? Old hatreds, old entitlements spill out in the killing of a Black male in Georgia
by Naba’a Muhammad, Brian E. Muhammad and Nisa Islam Muhammad There were protests by religious leaders, alongside defense calls to bar Black pastors from a Georgia courtroom with potential Black jurors racially weeded out. And a White man shot an unarmed Black man to death but claimed to be the victim. All of it revived old notions, old narratives, and sadly,...