‘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,...
Missing Maleah – The profound problem of children, boyfriends and dangers in the ‘hood
, Contributing Writer Maleah Davis could be a poster child for the struggle happening within the Black family in America. The precious four-year-old has captured the hearts and minds of the Houston community as she has been missing since May 4. She is presumed to be dead. The Houston Police Department has charged the mother's boyfriend, 26-year-old Derion Vence,...
The impact of wrongful convictions
by Gregory Muhammad In an article written by Samantha K. Brooks and Neil Greenberg (SAGE Publication), I found the following: “In the USA, a non-profit organization called the Innocence Project is committed to exonerating wrongfully convicted individuals through DNA testing and, in 2019, reported that 362 people in the USA previously convicted of serious crimes had been exonerated since the...
Honoring a great one Celebrating the life and the contribution of President Jerry Rawlings of Ghana
In the pantheon of great African leaders who have joined the ranks of the ancestors, Kwame Nkrumah, Nelson Mandela, Robert Mugabe, Muammar Gadhafi, Sekou Toure and Gamal Abdel Nasser, it would be impossible to exclude Flight Lt. Jerry John Rawlings from that number. Mr. Rawlings led the Republic of Ghana for 19 years from 1981 to 2000 as its longest...
The Genocidal Plot Against the Rise of Black People Being Exposed
On December 21, 2021 a federal jury found Dr. Charles Lieber guilty of two counts of making false statements to the U.S. government about whether he participated in Thousand Talents Plan, a program designed by the Chinese government to attract foreign-educated scientists. They also found him guilty of failing to declare income earned in China and failing to report...