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East Coast cleans up after deadly storms

SILVER SPRING, Md.—Crews across the eastern U.S. worked in early August to clear downed trees and power lines and restore electricity following severe storms...

Maryland’s emergency room wait times are the worst in America

Maryland leads the nation with the worst emergency room wait times with patients sitting on average close to four hours from arrival to departure....

Black Women’s Expo showcases ‘strength, success and sisterhood’

CHICAGO—Each year, the Black Women’s Exposition never fails to provide a glamorous showcase of businesses and workshops by and for Black women. Its 28th...

Act like an angel, train like a soldier

My first interaction with Minister Jabril Muhammad was years ago at a conference; I believe it was in Atlanta. My brother was selling our...

Saviours’ Tour hits New York

by West Muhammad NEW YORK—On a recent Saturday, F.O.I. (Fruit of Islam) assembled in the Bronx, New York, for another successful Saviours’ Tour.  Brothers from...

Mississippi activists demand justice

BRANDON, Miss.—Kareem Muhammad, co-chair of the Local Organizing Committee (LOC) of Mississippi, and other local activists recently held a news conference at the Rankin...

Minister Farrakhan speaks on love, life and letting God in

CHICAGO—Love radiated through the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan at the Sheraton Grand Chicago Riverwalk, the host hotel for the 28th annual International Training Conference....

Physical and spiritual preparation takes center stage at International Training Conference

Charlene Muhammad and Donna Muhammad CHICAGO—Another International Training Conference hosted by Grandmaster Abdul Azziz (Anthony) Muhammad is in the history books, and this year’s was...

Henrietta Lacks’ family settles lawsuit with a biotech company that used her cells without consent

BALTIMORE—More than 70 years after doctors at Johns Hopkins Hospital took Henrietta Lacks’ cervical cells without her knowledge, a lawyer for her descendants said...

The ‘real lead conspirator’ Federal judge criticizes U.S. gov’t for fake terrorism plot in Newburgh Four case

David Williams, Onta Williams, Laguerre Payen, who is Haitian, and James Cromitie, four Black Muslim men known as the “Newburgh Four,” have spent over...