AIPAC and the end of democracy: Money, power and picking U.S. lawmakers who will support, defend Israel’s interests.
NEWS ANALYSIS Donna Edwards seemed headed to an easy victory in the primary for Maryland’s 4th Congressional District, a predominantly Black suburb of Washington, D.C., in Prince George’s County. Early polls showed her having a 13 point lead ahead of former state attorney Glen Ivey. Ms. Edwards served eight years as the first Black woman elected to Congress from Maryland...
Racial, religious profiling root of terror cases?
- WASHINGTON (FinalCall.com) - Even as federal officials insist that each newly exposed “terror” plot is worse than the last, many observers fear that the rash of prosecutions, almost exclusively involving Muslims and Blacks, are part of a backlash that is building throughout the country. Attorney General Eric Holder called the latest arrest, the alleged hydrogen peroxide bomb plot that led...
President Obama grapples with Middle East issues
- WASHINGTON (FinalCall.com) - In what was billed as a reprise of his 2009 Cairo-speech to the Muslim world, President Barack Obama attempted to lay down a new marker for U.S. Middle East policy at the State Department May 19. This time his address was intended to reflect the changes in the region in light of uprisings this year in Muslim...
Celebrating the life and the gift of Mayor Marion Barry
ASKIAM and Nisa Islam Muhammad Final Call Staffers WASHINGTON (FinalCall.com) - After a joyous, but dignified memorial service attended by thousands of Washingtonians Marion S. Barry, Jr. was quietly and solemnly laid to rest at the Congressional Cemetery by 50 tearful family members and supporters Dec. 6. Mr. Barry was remembered again and again at the memorial as a “hero,” a “freedom...
Growing concern over vaccine injuries, deaths and mandates
An effort to mandate or force acceptance of Covid-19 vaccines continues in the face of a refusal by Black, indigenous and others who are dead set against or worried about taking the experimental vaccines. Reasons for concern were illustrated again as a leading California health official asked for a “pause” on use of a lot of Moderna’s experimental vaccine. A...
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 County Sheriff’s Office to call attention to misconduct by law enforcement and to demand justice for victims of police brutality. Supporters from various parts of the Southern Region with victims and their loved ones and...
Community fights to save historic Bronzeville church from demolition
CHICAGO—A South Side church in Bronzeville’s Grand Boulevard community that was the launching pad of Operation Rainbow/PUSH, the United Negro College Fund, hosted the funeral of legendary singer Sam Cook, was visited by Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and presidential candidate Jimmy Carter, and welcomed major Nation of Islam events, now faces an uncertain future. Due to much needed...
Marcus Muhammad wins third term in office Benton Harbor Mayor says ‘servant-leadership’ is the key to good government
Effecting quality of life concerns in real-time, local politics carry the most weight in the daily lives of the average American citizen. For Marcus Muhammad, his November 7 election to a third term as mayor of the City of Benton Harbor, Michigan, is an example of what he calls the success of servant-leadership and how coalition building creates trust...
‘We’ve had enough!’ More Black female cops sue D.C. Metropolitan Police Department
WASHINGTON—Serious charges have been added to serious charges against Washington’s Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) by two more veteran, Black, female, former cops who insist they were forced out of the department’s Internal Affairs Division (IAD) by Assistant Chief Wilfredo Manlapaz “to prohibit their opposition to race discrimination and professional misconduct in MPD, and within IAD,” the women said according...
Gang wars report proves racial targeting of Black males
ASKIAMSenior Correspondent WASHINGTON (FinalCall.com) - Police crackdowns, aggressive gang enforcement, and legislation targeting gangs are failing so badly that they are actually making U.S. cities more dangerous so says a July 17 report by the Justice Policy Institute titled: “Gang Wars: The Failure of Enforcement tactics and the Need for Effective Public Safety Strategies.” Though it is a popular U.S. political...