A weekend of healing at Mosque Maryam
By Charlene Muhammad CHARLENEM CHICAGO (FinalCall.com) - The Nation of Islam opened the doors of its international headquarters to the public for a weekend of healing through its life repair seminar on June 29-30. The gathering stemmed from the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan's desire to share a tool that helps promote healing: Dianetics. Dianetics was created by Church of Scientology founder L....
Record rise reported in anti-Muslim incidents in U.S. in 2023
Discrimination and attacks against Muslims and Palestinians in the United States have reached an all-time high, with over 8,000 incidents reported in 2023, fueled by increasing Islamophobia during the Israeli war on Gaza. The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) released a report indicating a significant surge of 56 percent in reported cases, marking the highest figure since the organization’s inception...
Violence stalks America
By Charlene Muhammad CHARLENEM A tragedy bring questions, pain and a search for answers (FinalCall.com) - As funeral services began for the 20 children and six adults murdered at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut, the search for answers about how such a tragedy could happen and why dominated millions of hearts and minds. While the true reason may never be known,...
Report suggests cancer deaths among Blacks is rising
Junk food diet linked to cancer in women (Daily Mail, 03-27-2007)Take a stand against cancer (FCN, 11-08-2006)Farrakhan survives prostate cancer, urges all men to get tested (FCN, 05-27-2003)Is there a ‘secret’ to health? (FCN, 04-22-2007) NEW YORK (FinalCall.com) - Lonnie Barton was 51 years old when he died of lung cancer in 2004. According to his sister, Bernadette Barton, 48,...
Zimmerman case sign of U.S. divide
By Charlene Muhammad CHARLENEM (FinalCall.com) - As the trial for the killer of Florida teen Trayvon Martin moved toward closing arguments, America's racial divide was clearly evident as jurors considered whether George Zimmerman racially profiled, stalked and killed the teenager or acted in self-defense. The trial also stands as an important marker in the history of the American legal system,...
The Valley of the Shadow of Death
FC: Recent news reports have revealed a relationship among drug manufacturers, agricultural firms and the Food and Drug Administration. This has allowed substandard, chemically riddled food to be approved that will undoubtedly lead to illness, more illness, for which the pharmaceutical companies produce so-called medicine to alleviate. What are your views on this and how can an unsuspecting public protect...
Celebrity accountability: Should it matter to Black America?
By Charlene Muhammad CHARLENEM (FinalCall.com) - Star power, social responsibility and controversy surfaced again over a partnership between hip hop entrepreneur Jay Z aka Shawn Carter and a high end store accused of racially profiling customers and rapper-businessman Kanye West's appropriation of the Confederate Stars and Bars flag for a clothing line. Jay Z issued a statement Nov. 15 defending his...
America’s War Against Black Power
By Charlene Muhammad CHARLENEM (FinalCall.com) - Human rights activists are calling on the government to grant amnesty and unconditional freedom to all political prisoners incarcerated because of COINTELPRO, a secret federal law enforcement program that destroyed Black and dissident organizations in the 1960s and 1970s. Men and women who sacrificed their lives so others could enjoy civil liberties and human rights in America...
U.S. police militarization heightens tensions, problems
By Charlene Muhammad CHARLENEM Citizens of Ferguson, Missouri awakened to a scenario similar to residents in some major U.S. cities: a local police force armed with heavily militarized weapons and equipment. The question being asked is, are police here to protect and serve or maim and kill? Demonstrators outraged over what they charge as Officer Darren Wilson's execution-style shooting of unarmed,...
Finally the International Decade for African Descendants begins
By Saeed Shabazz -Staff Writer- UNITED NATIONS - People of African descent still face racism in every nation, region and continent of the world, according to the president of the 193-member UN General Assembly, Sam Kutesa, a Ugandan diplomat. UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, speaking through a representative said people of African descent suffer from inequality and disadvantage from the history of slavery. Both...