Bold, Defiant Words From Mr. Trump
The president’s vow to make final decision on more stringent safety requirements for Covid-19 vaccine increases fears a harmful product could be rushed to market by Naba’a Muhammad and Charlene Muhammad Final Call Staffers The president dropped a powerful, but perhaps unsurprising bombshell when he declared he could veto a Food and Drug Administration decision to employ more stringent safety standards...
We Can’t Trust You: Experimentation, Exploitation and the Hidden History of American Medical Abuses
by Naba’a Muhammad and Michael Z. Muhammad | The Final Call | @TheFinalCall Emphatically no, Walt Boarderly, an entrepreneur and Philadelphia business owner, replied when asked if he would take the Covid-19 vaccine. Mr. Boaderly isn’t anti-vaccine, saying he will take the flu shot. “There is just too much uncertainty when it comes to this new vaccine,” he said. Blacks do...
We won’t be guinea pigs: Skeptical Blacks are balking at pressure to trust and join Covid-19 vaccine trials
Naba’a Muhammad and Charlene Muhammad Final Call Staffers @TheFinalCall Companies involved in Covid-19 vaccines and federal authorities bankrolling the research are running into a problem. Despite ads for the BET cable network, ads in some Black newspapers, Black surrogates saying the vaccine and trials will be safe, much of Black America isn’t drinking the Kool-Aid. They see Coivid-19 as serious, know...
‘Why would we send our people to the slaughterhouse?’
Amid tens of thousands of new Covid-19 cases reported daily in the United States, the fever pitch to get a vaccine on the market in a fraction of the time it normally takes is pressing forward. This, despite a lack of participation in clinical trials from Blacks, who second only to health workers, have been targeted for a vaccine by...
Thousands declare ‘get your knee off of our necks’ at March on Washington anniversary gathering
WASHINGTON—The summer of virus and rage culminated at the Lincoln Memorial with the political gathering of the summer as thousands of mostly Black and Brown people, young and old gathered to demand change on the same day as the first March on Washington almost six decades ago. It was 57 years to the day when Martin Luther King predicted in...
Justice for Breonna Taylor! Marches, protests, pressure still mounting, and a stubborn campaign pushes forward
“You’re going down there and you’re fighting for me. You’re fighting for your niece, Layla. You’re fighting for mom,” Larry Powell’s sister told him. He has been in Louisville, Ky., for over two weeks to help in the fight for justice for Breonna Taylor. The 26-year-old emergency room technician died when police officers forcibly entered her apartment and, after a...
America caught Covid-19; Black America caught hell, says Urban League
True to form, the National Urban League’s 2020 State of Black America Report highlights the plight of Black inequality and economics in America. And, this year’s 44th edition focuses on the Covid-19 global pandemic, racial justice, and imperatives for Black survival. “America caught the coronavirus and Black America caught hell,” opens “Unmasked,” the benchmark report. It outlines the coronavirus’ impact...
Hope, hype aren’t enough to give Black votes to Biden
Coming out of their convention, Democrats are braced to attack an embattled president trailing in the polls, who is pushing fears of a stolen election, and sabotaging vote-by-mail during a pandemic seeking to use race, White fear and White animosity to stay in office. Eager to contrast their nominee with President Trump, the Democrats cast Joe Biden as a man...
Exposed on the world stage: U.S. police violate human rights at home
America loves to operate as the world’s moral police, but now, the world is watching her. At least, according to a recent report by Amnesty International, titled, “USA: The World is Watching: Mass Violations by U.S. Police of Black Lives Matter Protesters’ Rights.” Following the killing of George Floyd, the human rights organization documented what it reports as “serious human rights...
Second Choice Matters: Biden’s VP pick and Election 2020
WASHINGTON—With news that Joe Biden is days away from choosing a vice presidential candidate, talk has centered on whether he should pick a Black woman, why, what his campaign stands to gain and what each potential woman brings to the table. Mr. Biden, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, is considering former National Security Adviser Susan Rice; California Sen. Kamala Harris;...