Hunger afflicts one in ten globally, UN report finds
As many as 783 million people faced hunger worldwide in 2022 in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, repeated weather shocks and conflicts, including in Ukraine, according to a study launched by five United Nations agencies on July 12. The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World revealed that between 691 and 783 million people faced hunger in...
Longest Walk emphasizes Native American concerns
ASKIAM-Senior Correspondent- THE WHITE HOUSE (FinalCall.com) - When militant Native American activists captured Alcatraz Island in the San Francisco Bay, reclaiming it as Indian land more than 30 years ago, the group was referred to in the local White-media as “Red Muslims,” hoping that linking them with not-well-spoken-of Nation of Islam “Black Muslims” would tarnish their reputation. They continued to organize,...
An Angel Among Men
Download Special 8-Page Spread: Minister Jabril Muhammad “O soul that art at rest, Return to thy Lord, well-pleased, well-pleasing, So enter among My servants, And enter My Garden!”—Holy Qur’an, Surah 89 Verses 27-30 CHICAGO—Mosque Maryam at The National Center of the Nation of Islam was full to capacity as family members, friends, and Believers from around the world gathered to pay...
Michelle Obama shines during Democratic convention
CHARLENEM ‘The world as it is just won’t do’ DENVER (FinalCall.com) - When Michelle Obama, wife of Democratic presidential nominee Sen. Barack Obama, planted trees and filled care packages for U.S. military troops overseas at Curtis Park, she was far from the southside Chicago neighborhood she grew up in. But she was continuing a personal commitment to help others. Mrs. Obama...
‘I declare that our men stand up!’ Community stands in solidarity concerning increase in gun violence in Chicago
CHICAGO—Chicago’s gun violence has produced 350 victims at Final Call press time, for the year 2023, with 30 Black females ranging in age from a one-year-old to a 69-year-old, dying from their injuries. Englewood community organizers joined together in solidarity on August 2 to hold a news conference addressing the increase in gun violence, throughout the city, and specifically expressing...
Renewed effort to execute Mumia Abu-Jamal?
PHILADELPHIA (FinalCall.com) - "These people are pushing for Mumia’s death, despite his innocence. We need to organize like we never have before,” declared Pam Africa of the International Concerned Family and Friends of Mumia Abu-Jamal in the call for a Dec. 6 rally in support of the death row inmate in the “City of Brotherly Love." The 27th anniversary of...
God is at work: Weather and divine warning
An onslaught of record-breaking weather events has been striking throughout the planet. Earthquakes, extreme drought conditions, tropical storms carrying torrential rains and their destructive spinoffs of floods and mudslides brought affliction. At Final Call presstime Tropical Storm Idalia was strengthening, moving toward Cuba and was projected to strike the coast of Florida as a Category 3 hurricane. Parts of...
Activists unhappy with Obama boycott of racism meeting
NEW YORK (FinalCall.com) - Unhappy with the Obama administration’s decision not to attend an April meeting of the Durban Review Conference, which is connected to an international race gathering, activists plan to hold a Harlem rally to protest the action and urge the U.S. to participate in the important meeting. “We want to get the message to President Barack Obama...
Silencing the noise to build strong, God-centered Black marriages and families
In today’s society, ever-evolving dynamics threaten Black couples’ efforts to develop and sustain strong marriages and families. But the journey to become one as man and woman under God “until death do us part,” as pledged during marriage vows, can be a both a beautiful and challenging endeavor. Poverty, unemployment, health disparities, incarceration and financial hardships cut across racial lines,...
Pharmaceutical companies stand to make profit from ‘swine flu’
(FinalCall.com) - A Boston-based company, Emerging Portfolio Fund Research Global, Inc. (EPFR), a provider of fund flows and asset allocation data to financial institutions around the world, reported on May 1 that health-care and biotechnical companies recorded their first week of stock price increases since February. According to market watchers, the biotech industries stock section was one of the few...