House Dems, GOP team up to expand warrantless spying on Americans
The U.S. House recently passed legislation to expand a major mass spying authority after voting down a bipartisan push to attach a search warrant requirement to the heavily abused surveillance law. The bill to reauthorize Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) for two years passed by a vote of 273-147, with 59 Democrats and 88 Republicans voting...
‘The Math Doctor’ offering online math classes for students!
CHICAGO—Shahid Muhammad, affectionately called “The Math Doctor,” has taught math on all grade levels including the college level, for the past 39 years, via the classroom setting, videos, lectures, and now on-line. Most of his teaching career has taken place at Muhammad University of Islam located in Chicago and also at Malcolm X College since 2008. “Watching how my high school...
Are Democrats picking the right political battles?
WASHINGTON—Even as the enthusiasm over the defeat of Donald J. Trump and his forces in 2020 has faded in political circles, many desperate Democratic Party legislators have taken matters into their own hands, using new methods and old methods to prevent Republicans from fencing Black people off from their voting rights. Ohio Rep. Joyce Beatty, chair of the Congressional Black...
Farrakhan: Nation of Islam mourns assassination of Muammar Gadhafi
FCNNEWSSOURCE CHICAGO (FinalCall.com) - In his first major national interview since the death of Libyan leader Muammar Gadhafi, the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan sat with prominent radio personality Cliff Kelley in studio at WVON 1690AM. Minister Farrakhan entered the studio with an extremely serious look on his face and was very focused as Mr. Kelley asked him the how he was...
UN offers a helping hand to victims of hurricane
Farrakhan: Take in families left homeless (Richmond Times Dispatch, 09-04-2005) UNITED NATIONS (FinalCall.com) - Secretary-General Kofi Annan phoned Pres. George W. Bush on September 2, to offer United Nations aid to the victims of Hurricane Katrina, while the world body's entire emergency relief system went on standby for a possible request for help. "The American people — who have always been the...
Black males racially targeted in 2012?
FCNNEWSSOURCE (FinalCall.com) - “Trayvon Martin. Trayvon Martin.” Before February 26, 2012, despite repetitious thought, his name might not have rung a bell for many. But since that rainy night when George Zimmerman fatally shot the Black 17-year-old while he walked home from a convenience store, Trayvon Martin has become a household name. Trayvon has come to symbolize an era of...
Rebranding Jim Crow in the New South?
In the name of combating crime in Mississippi’s state capital, the recent passage of an amended House Bill 1020, to create a separate and unelected court system within the city, recently passed a Senate committee, after removing language that the state would appoint non-elected judges there while adding a provision to expand the jurisdiction of Capitol Police to the...
More than a memory: The importance of the Million Man March—then and now
by Michael Z. Muhammad, J.A. Salaam and Brian E. Muhammad In 1995, the year of the Million Man March, the Black family, in particular, and the Black community, in general, were in trouble. The result of years of neglect, chemical warfare perpetrated against Black people in the form of crack cocaine, and the mass incarceration of Black men followed under...
Training, elevating and cultivating our youth
TINLEY PARK, Ill.—The 29th Annual International Training Conference held July 26-28 attracted participants of all ages and this year’s weekend included informative and life-saving workshops geared toward youth. Student Minister Nuri Muhammad of Mosque No. 74 in Indianapolis opened the weekend with, a message themed, “Attack on the Black Youth: Root Causes and Solutions.” “Our young soldiers that are being...
Business is warfare
By Charlene Muhammad CHARLENEM Learning more about the Secret Relationship Between Blacks and Jews ROSEMONT, Ill. - “Business is booming” is a popular phrase in U.S. economics or at least it was for many before the mortgage crisis crippled financial markets, bankrupted the middle class, and decimated the already poor. But in fact, business is warfare, with Blacks the usual casualties, the Honorable...