Learning loss further exposes racial gap in education
WASHINGTON—Online learning according to researchers has left many students with learning loss in math and reading. Is this learning loss real or another reflection of the systemic oppression Black and children of color face with majority White teachers in classrooms where these children are undervalued and overdisciplined or both? “When districts shifted to remote instruction, students in high-poverty schools were...
Minister Farrakhan: A Divine Warner
Bob Woodward's new book verifies truth revealed in Minister Farrakhan's letter of warning to Bush (FinalCall.com) - The verity of the warning given by the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan in a Dec. 1, 2001 letter to President George Bush against the war that the president was considering at that time has been confirmed by a recounting of events and...
After Yellowstone, floodwaters menace Montana’s largest city
BILLINGS, Mont.—Devastating floodwaters that wiped out miles of roads and hundreds of bridges in Yellowstone National Park and swamped scores of homes in surrounding communities moved downstream and threatened to cut off fresh drinking water to residents of Montana’s largest city. Heavy weekend rains and melting mountain snow had the Yellowstone River flowing June 15, at a historically high level...
U.S. house fires killing black children
NEW YORK (FinalCall.com) - A nationwide Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) study of Centers For Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) data, dating 1989 to 1998, determined that Black children under age 5 in Maryland and Illinois are four times more likely to die in a house fire. The federal agency said that, in the decade that covered their study,...
Guns, violence and America’s savage descent
America, land of the free and home of the brave, is descending into more and more madness and chaos. In his book “The Fall of America,” the Honorable Elijah Muhammad, Eternal Leader of the Nation of Islam, wrote about the country’s descent into savagery. He started by talking about her greatness: her richness, her institutions, her towns and cities, her...
With little Black support, Bush is expected to continue rightward drift
By George Curry and Hazel Trice Edney WASHINGTON (NNPA) - Having won re-election with little Black political support, President George Bush is expected to appoint three or four right-wing judges to the Supreme Court. Such a move is virtually guaranteed to eventually end the use of affirmative action programs in public institutions. Pres. Bush is also expected to preside over a...
‘A total execution’: Kansas City activists continue yearlong fight for justice for Malcolm Johnson
It has been over one year since Malcolm Johnson, a 31-year-old Black man, died after a fatal police encounter, but the investigation into his death is still ongoing and activists are demanding answers. On March 25, 2021, Mr. Johnson was in a BP gas station in Kansas City, Missouri, when two officers entered guns drawn. In a surveillance video from the...
Advocates say NYC child agency forcing AIDS drug experiments on children
NEW YORK (FinalCall.com) - Outraged community activists, reacting to the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) documentary “Guinea Pig Kids,” demonstrated Dec. 30 in front of the Incarnation Children's Center (ICC) located in Washington Heights. The documentary, which aired in late November, charged the New York City Administration of Children's Services (ACS) with the “experimental” use of toxic drugs on HIV-positive...
The harsh reality facing Black voters and the need for unity
Black America has long based its hopes on the campaign promises of politicians, and with the national mid-term elections less than 90 days away, party loyalties have yielded little for the masses as pledges are again made to herd Black voters toward the White liberal or White conservative agendas of the left or the right. As the country clashes over...
ADL targets Russell Simmons
(FinalCall.com) - Music mogul Russell Simmons has refused to bow to pressure from the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) to denounce Minister Farrakhan as being anti-Semitic as part of Mr. Simmons' involvement with the Foundation for Ethnic Understanding's new campaign to raise awareness of anti-Semitism. The program involves actors and musicians to film public service announcements identifying with the Jewish people...