Wall Street banks accused of trying to sabotage key consumer protection rule
by Julia Conley - CommonDreams.org Consumer advocates applauded last month as the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau finalized a rule aimed at making it easier for people to switch financial institutions if they’re unhappy with a bank’s service, without the bank retaining their personal data— But on Nov. 15, more than a dozen groups warned the CFPB that major Wall Street firms...
Sharing a message of freedom, justice and equality
The Fruit of Islam (F.O.I., the men of the Nation of Islam), share the Teachings of the Most Honorable Elijah Muhammad as taught and exemplified by the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan each week in cities large and small. The brothers distribute The Final Call newspaper in communities across the country. They are men on a mission to serve a...
Palm Springs officials approve $5.9M to pay Black and Latino families displaced from neighborhood
PALM SPRINGS, Calif.—A Southern California city will pay $5.9 million to compensate Black and Latino families who were displaced from a neighborhood in the 1960s and decades later led a fight for restitution. The Palm Springs City Council approved the deal in a unanimous vote Nov. 14. The council also approved $10 million for a first-time homebuyer assistance program, $10 million for a...
Dozens are sickened and 1 person died after eating carrots contaminated with E. coli
NEW YORK—An outbreak of E. coli has infected dozens of people who ate bagged organic carrots, and one person died from the infection. Altogether, 39 people were infected and 15 were hospitalized in 18 states after eating organic whole and baby carrots sold by Grimmway Farms, the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Nov. 17. Grimmway Farms, based in Bakersfield, California,...
Never forget Tamir Rice
Samaria Rice is on a mission to preserve her son’s legacy 10 years after his death CLEVELAND—It has been a decade since the tragic death of young Tamir Rice. On a recent cool, breezy evening at the Gordon Green Event Hall in Cleveland, his family and community gathered to reflect on the life of the 12-year-old Black boy. Tamir’s mother,...
Black activists and leaders convene post-election town hall in D.C.
WASHINGTON, D.C.—A 2024 post-election town hall organized by the Institute for the Black World 21st Century convened to discuss the results and the way forward for Black America. This meeting abandoned the age-old hand-wringing that typically happens after election results, and speakers reminded the audience that Black people had been in this situation before but that a new path...
The Black male is endangered, Part 1
The Black male is in a very particular place of endangerment not only by environmental factors, but the Black man’s attitude, our ignorance, our savagery, are all lending to a plan, a conspiracy. The scientists say that when a species is endangered, the next stage is extinction. If the condition of the Black Male in particular is not checked...
Woman fired for refusing COVID shot wins $12.7 million in jury trial
Lisa Domski sued Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan after the company refused to grant her request for a religious exemption to the company’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate. by Michael Nevradakis, Ph.D. The Defender This article was published on The Defender—Children’s Health Defense News & Views Website on November 13, 2024 A federal jury in Detroit last week awarded nearly $12.7 million to a Catholic...
Separation and the survival of the Black community
In the Name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful. As-Salaam Alaikum Our subject today is ‘The Survival of the Black Community.’ To survive means to live on. Survival is defined as the state of continuing to live or exist, typically, in spite of an accident, some ordeal or difficult circumstances. We all are here, and we have continued up to this...
The daughters of Malcolm X sue the CIA, FBI and NYPD over his assassination
NEW YORK—Three daughters of Malcolm X have accused the CIA, FBI, the New York Police Department and others in a $100 million lawsuit Nov. 15 of playing roles in his 1965 assassination. In the lawsuit filed in Manhattan federal court, the daughters—along with the Malcolm X estate —claimed that the agencies were aware of and were involved in the assassination plot...