Afro-Latinos want to be recognized as Black
Related news: The Secret Relations Between Blacks and Mexicans (FCN, 05-28-2014) Don't be fooled: Latino = Indigenous (FCN, 05-01-2014) Keeping Black culture alive in Brazil (FCN, 12-11-2009) Afro-Latino Heritage Must be Highlighted (FCN, 10-23-2009) The Basis Of Black-Latino Unity Is Not Political (BEC, 07-24-2001) Who is Black? (Rosa Clemente, 07-10-2001) NEW YORK (FinalCall.com) - Scholars, activists and cultural representatives from Latino grassroots organizations gathered here...
Noted Black historian and scholar Dr. Yosef A. A. ben- Jochannon dead at age 97
NEW YORK (FinalCall.com) - Dr. Yosef A. A. ben-Jochannon, engineer, linguist, anthropologist and historian died in a New York City nursing home on March 19 at the age of 97. “Dr. Ben” as he was affectionately referred to was born on December 21, 1918 to a Puerto Rican mother and an Ethiopian father, in what is known as the “Falasha”...
The time is ripe for economic justice – #BoycottChristmas
By Charlene Muhammad CHARLENEM In his call for ‘Justice Or Else,' the 20th Anniversary gathering of the Million Man March on October 10, in Washington, D.C., the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan also called for a boycott of Christmas. Leading experts and economists agree the time is now and the time is ripe for the Muslim leader's clarion call for economic justice,...
Justice Or Else! Local Organizing Committees Convene At Annual Saviours’ Day Convention Review Successes And Share Some Strategies
-Contributing Writer- DETROIT–Members of Justice Or Else! Local Organizing Committees (LOC) representing cities from across the country were reunited here at the Nation of Islam's annual Saviours' Day convention where they reviewed the successes of recent campaigns–and shared pointers for continuing their work for justice. Student Min. Ishmael Muhammad of Mosque Maryam, representing Chicago's LOC, echoed the sentiments of...
Caught In The Crossfire— Black, Blue And Called To Protect And Serve
By Charlene Muhammad CHARLENEM Black police officers are often caught between White peers accused of police violence and criminality while trying to protect and serve their own communities. In some instances Black officers remain silent, willing and active participants in mistreatment and abuse Black communities are all too familiar with. Amid distrust and dissatisfaction, Black police activists work knowing they are...
Blacks left out of immigration debate, strategies?
By Charlene Muhammad CHARLENEM LOS ANGELES - Blacks are absent from the narrative about executive orders, chilling raids, and deportations, say advocates who have increased efforts to help Black immigrants survive in America's ugly political climate. They say Blacks are suffering more from everything, including criminalization under expanded police authority. “They're not really paying much attention to us,” said Albert Saint Jean,...
False flags and Black America’s salvation
ASKIAM And Richard B. Muhammad, Final Call Staffers NEWARK–Some scholars and scientists demonstrate their intellectual prowess by observing simple phenomena, natural phenomena, and explaining their observations to other scholars in fancy polysyllabic terms. The Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan however, takes the complex and sometimes confusing concepts of nature and society, explaining them so that both the unlettered and the learned understand...
Jewish anti-Black racism, double standards and hypocrisy
“The Talmud is to this day the circulating heart's blood of the Jewish religion. Whatever laws, customs or ceremonies we observe–whether we are Orthodox, Conservative, Reform or merely spasmodic sentimentalists–we follow the Talmud. It is our law.”–Herman Wouk When reports circulated that Israeli Sephardi Chief Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef referred to Black people as “monkeys” during a recent sermon and...
A Holy Day of Atonement message resonates with Detroit inmates
By Charlene Muhammad CHARLENEM DETROIT–Over 50 inmates at the Ryan Detroit Re-entry Center received a message on the fulfillment of prophecy and unity as part of their celebration of the 23rd Anniversary of the Million Man March and Holy Day of Atonement. Abdullah Muhammad, the Nation of Islam's Student National Prison Reform Minister, and Abdul Rahman Muhammad, volunteer for Mosque No....
The Pittsburgh district attorney fumbled case of cop who killed unarmed teen, say activists
, Contributing Writer Social justice activists in Pittsburgh were left in bewildered after a jury found former East Pittsburgh police officer Michael Rosfeld not guilty of homicide or any crime in the fatal shooting of unarmed teenager Antwon Rose II. Seventeen-year-old Antwon is one in a stunning number of Black men and youth killed by law enforcement officers without any...