Student Minister Troy Muhammad returns to prison bringing the light of Islam
By Abdullah Muhammad - National Prison Reform Minister The last time Student Minister Troy Muhammad walked the hallways and yards of Ryan Correctional Facility it was in shackles as an inmate. But earlier this year he returned to Ryan Correctional Facility, not as a repeat offender or parole violator, but as the Detroit Representative of the Honorable Louis Farrakhan, Student...
Sickle Cell Disease foundation serving needs in Philly
PHILADELPHIA—Born at Chestnut Hill Hospital in Philadelphia, where in the late 1980s there was no Sickle Cell Disease testing for infants, Tahiirah Austin-Muhammad went for six years without being diagnosed as carrying the disease. Primarily affecting African Americans, Ms. Muhammad was initially diagnosed as suffering from Leukemia before a Black hematologist, Dr. Kim Smith, intervened and correctly diagnosed Ms....
Spelman women continue to rap about hip hop
By Janelle Richards andNisa Islam Muhammad Spelman students cancel rapper's charity event (FCN, 04-19-2004)Rapping for a cause vs. rapping for money (FCN, 09-30-2002)Farrakhan challenges the hip hop community (FCN, 06-13-2001)Millions More Movement & Hip Hop (MillionsMovement.com)Spelman College Online (Atlanta, Georgia) ATLANTA (FinalCall.com) - Last year, the young women of Spelman College started a national conversation against the denigration of Black women in the...
National Black Agenda Convention explores needs of Black people
FCNNEWSSOURCE BOSTON (FinalCall.com) - "We need an agenda that energizes and guides our movement for self-determination, self-reliance and self-respect. We need an agenda that informs and guides our domestic policy interests, and an agenda that articulates and directs our international and foreign policy concerns, and we need an agenda that keeps our leadership accountable to us," said former Massachusetts...
City of Houston chosen as first city outside of Africa for Diaspora African Forum location
HOUSTON—On Sept. 20 Ambassador H.E. Dr. Erieka Bennett, founder and Head of Mission for the Diaspora African Forum (DAF), and leadership visited Houston to scout locations for what will become the first DAF location outside of the African continent. This achievement is the direct result of relationships forged during the trade and investment mission, led by Mayor Sylvester Turner,...
Family of Georgia woman who died after falling from moving patrol car files wrongful death lawsuit
DECATUR, Ga.—The family of a Georgia woman who died last year after she fell from a moving patrol car has filed a civil rights lawsuit, saying sheriff’s deputies improperly arrested her and ultimately caused her death, attorneys announced May 31. The deputies who put Brianna Grier in the back of a patrol car to take her to the Hancock County...
Coronavirus still ravaging Black communities
Covid-19 is still ravaging Black communities with many households facing serious financial problems with job loss, and difficulty managing childcare in the four largest cities in America with large populations of Blacks and Latinos, according to an NPR, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health Poll. The poll, released in September, surveyed 3,400...
Tragedy brings opportunity for youth in Chicago neighborhood
By Richard Muhammad CHICAGO (FinalCall.com) - The month of March was not a good one for Rep. Bobby Rush, with the tragic deaths of two young girls killed by stray bullets fired on the streets of Englewood. The Democratic congressman didn't despair. He went to work convening major corporate, political and community leaders. He called for a joint effort to bring...
Obama quietly backs Patriot Act provisions
, IPS NEW YORK - With the health care debate preoccupying the mainstream media, it has gone virtually unreported that the Barack Obama administration is quietly supporting renewal of provisions of the George W. Bush-era U.S.A. Patriot Act that civil libertarians say infringe on basic freedoms. And it is reportedly doing so over the objections of some prominent Democrats. When a...
Reparations Summit – NDABA IV comes to Baltimore
Fort Worth joins Dallas, passes slavery reparations resolution (FCN, 06/01/2004)Ndaba III: Taking reparations to the streets–and Congress (FCN, 04/06/2004)Ndaba: ‘A great sitting-down' (FCN, 08/09/2003)The Movement for Reparations (Minister Louis Farrakhan, 08/16/2002) BALTIMORE (FinalCall.com) - The reparations movement came to the city by the bay for the fourth ndaba, a South African Zulu word for “the great sitting down.” Activists from...