Remembering Joseph Certaine, whose contributions helped make Million Man March a success
PHILADELPHIA—The city of Philadelphia recently commemorated the life and legacy of former city managing director Joseph “Joe” Certaine. His organizational skills and work helped guarantee the success of Philly’s participation in the historic 1995 Million Man March called by the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan of the Nation of Islam. The Million Man March was held October 16, 1995 with the...
Justice for Trayvon ignites a new movement, say activists
By Charlene Muhammad CHARLENEM (FinalCall.com) - Angry protestors took the streets with demonstrations, marches, “read-ins,” and prayer vigils in more than 100 cities for a national day of action. The protests came one full week after a jury in Sanford, Florida acquitted George Zimmerman of killing unarmed Florida teen Trayvon Martin. From New York to Los Angeles, from Miami to Baltimore,...
Venus and Serena’s dad speaks
By Saeed Shabazz -Staff Writer- Richard Williams writes about life, race and reality NEW YORK (FinalCall.com) - Richard Williams, best known as the father of tennis champions Venus and Serena Williams, has written his first book. It isn't about how to play tennis. “There are enough books out about tennis–tired of teaching tennis, tired of talking about tennis,” Mr. Williams told a standing-room only...
FOI in Chicago Spread message of Peace on the West Side
CHICAGO—The Fruit of Islam (FOI) brought high spirits to the people on the city’s West Side July 3. With a Final Call newspaper in hand, warm smile and kind word as exemplified by their teacher the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan, the FOI set the tone the day before July 4. Celebrated as America’s Independence Day, July 4 also marks the...
‘Things seem to be going in the wrong direction’ Police logged increased fatal shootings in 2021
WASHINGTON—An’Twan Gilmore, a 27-year-old Black man, was asleep at the wheel of his idling BMW with his foot on the brake. On the late summer night last year, several District of Columbia police officers approached his car. They noticed he had a gun in his waistband. The officers knocked on the window to wake him up. Suddenly, according to...
U.S. Jews mobilize to free convicted spy, Rabbi threatens Obama
-Staff Writer- Rabbi tells Obama: ‘Free Jonathan Pollard or Else!' (FinalCall.com) - Yonah Metzger, Israel's chief Ashkenazi rabbi, has a message for President Barack Obama: Free Jonathan Pollard or don't expect American Jews to back your presidential campaign. Rabbi Metzger, said during a pre-Passover sermon in Jerusalem that President Obama should prove he is a friend of Israel and “immediately...
Black network launched to teach Black History year round
A common complaint among African Americans, especially during the month of February, is why Black history—all of Black history—is crammed into 28 days when the full range of a rich, vibrant and essential living history of a people demands to be taught year-round. One way to correct this, according to Dr. Ron Daniels and Don Rojas of the Institute of...
French President Macron holds crisis meeting as protests rage on over teenager’s killing by police
French President Emmanuel Macron has held a crisis meeting with some of his ministers, as security forces have arrested 150 people in a second night of violence after the killing of a teenager by police. In a sign of the seriousness of the situation, Mr. Macron held an early morning crisis meeting of his ministers on June 29, the Elysee...
Warren and Khanna demand probe into undercounting of civilians killed by U.S. military
By Julia Conley, CommonDreams.org Sen. Elizabeth Warren recently called on the U.S. Department of Defense to review “significant discrepancies in civilian casualty counts,” a month after the Pentagon released its annual report on civilian deaths and injuries as a result of U.S. operations in Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Yemen, Nigeria, and Somalia. The Massachusetts Democrat spoke out July 6 on social media...
Hate crimes sweep Mid-Atlantic region
ASKIAMSenior Correspondent WASHINGTON (FinalCall.com) - A 10-day rash of racist crimes and Ku Klux Klan propaganda including nooses and racial torture spread over the National Capital area in mid-September, from Washington, to Prince Georges County, Md., even to a Maryland state prison, and to Virginia and West Virginia. The bloodiest incident took place in a ramshackle trailer, deep in the rural...