Creating a supreme curriculum, supreme educators for students
CHICAGO (FinalCall.com) - In 2008, the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan issued a challenge for a new educational paradigm for the 21st century at the Nation of Islam's first Ministry of Education National Conference. He challenged teachers and educators to enact God-centered solutions in an educational system that has “flatlined” and failed to cultivate and educate Black children to achieve their...
Minister Farrakhan challenges educators at 3-day conference in Chicago
A New Mind: ‘Think like a ruler!' CHICAGO (FinalCall.com) - The Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan told parents, students and educators that the time is now to create a new educational reality, rendering the old White supremacist educational system and its curriculum irrelevant. “If a curriculum does not prepare a student for life itself, then it is a worthless curriculum,”...
Obama surrenders on debt ceiling deal
- WASHINGTON (FinalCall.com) - A united, committed faction of rabid, right-wing Republican members of the House of Representatives changed the face of U.S. politics July 31, dictating to the Democrat in the White House and to the Democrat-controlled Senate, the terms of an ultra-conservative budget slashing deal, in exchange for preventing the first ever default on the U.S. debt. Republican and...
Judge oks $25 million settlement in Katrina hospital suit
(FinalCall.com) - A Louisiana judge has given a preliminary approval to a $25 million settlement in a class-action lawsuit by plaintiffs against a New Orleans hospital that was submerged in flood waters after the levees broke following Hurricane Katrina. The settlement was reached between Tenet Healthcare Corp, which owned New Orleans' Memorial Medical Center at the time, and an...
Lighter skin brings less prison time for Black women?
-Staff Writer- (FinalCall.com) - A study by Villanova University found light-skinned Black women were sentenced to an average of 12 percent less time than their darker-skinned peers and served an average of 11 percent less time in jail. The lighter a convict's skin, the shorter their prison sentence tends to be and the less time they have to...
Muslim revolutionizes CPR technology with Transmax
(FinalCall.com) - As a six-year-old growing up in Joliet, Illinois, Oneal Muhammad saw something no child should ever see but children in U.S. cities large and small too often witness, gun violence. It was at this young age Brother Oneal saw a young man shot and killed in front of his eyes for the first time. That split second...
ISNA holds 48th Annual Convention
Loving God, Loving Neighbor, Living in Harmony ROSEMONT, Ill. (FinalCall.com) - The Islamic Society of North America held its 48th Annual Convention here July 1-4 at the Stephens Center under the theme, “Loving God, Loving Neighbor, Living in Harmony.” The convention is one of the largest Muslim gatherings in North America, bringing together thousands of attendees including individuals, families, businesses,...
The collapse of America’s wealth: Prophecy fulfilled
“And he cried mightily with a strong voice, saying, Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen, and is become the habitation of devils, and the hold of every foul spirit, and a cage of every unclean and hateful bird.” (Rev. 18:2) “And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come out of her, my people, that ye be not...
Alleged Strauss-Kahn rape victim tells her story
FCNNEWSSOURCE NEW YORK - The hotel housekeeper accusing Dominique Strauss-Kahn of sexually assaulting her is telling her story publicly, she says, because she wants the former International Monetary Fund leader behind bars. But it's hard to say whether her striking move will help or hobble her goal. Nafissatou Diallo's decision to speak out in media interviews is an unusual and...
Inmates end hunger strike while pushing policy reforms
CHARLENEM (FinalCall.com) - Inmates at California's Pelican Bay State Prison have ended their hunger strike but their families, prison reform advocates and supporters have vowed to carry on their struggle for measurable improvements in the Security Housing Units. Prison officials and outside representatives of the inmates confirmed that the hunger strikers accepted an offer from the California Department of Corrections and...