Plans to unveil a bust of Marcus Garvey in Ethiopia revealed
NNPA—Now, 81 years after his death, officials in Ethiopia plan to unveil a bronze sculpture in Addis Ababa to honor the legacy of Marcus Mosiah Garvey, the Pan African independence movement architect. According to a news release, the sculpture highlights Ethiopia as a focal point for Pan-Africanists to engage in constructing a unifying African heritage and destiny. “Our history...
Justice for Kendrick: Finally, a troubling Ga. case is reopened
Martin Luther King Jr. once said, “Let us realize the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.” For Kendrick Johnson’s family, it has been eight long agonizing years since the 17-year-old was found dead in the gymnasium at Lowndes High School in Valdosta, Ga., wrapped in a gym mat upside down on January 11, 2013. The county sheriff’s department...
Get ready for National Black Leadership Summit II on April 3!
Unity is the key and what is needed for Black progress. The push toward unity is a continuous work and the Nubian Leadership Circle is striving to do its part with the second National Black Leadership Summit. The Nubian Leadership Circle—a nationwide alliance of Black leadership groups and organizations—will host its second summit virtually on April 3, from 10:00...
Largest U.S. public university system requires ethnic studies
SACRAMENTO, Calif.—Ethnic and social justice studies will join English and science courses as graduation requirements at California State University, after the Board of Trustees at the nation’s largest four-year public university system approved the idea July 22. The change made amid the national reckoning over racism and police brutality will take effect in three years and represent the first change...
Advocacy, input, skills, land critical for Black progress
New Chicago, a majority Black neighborhood in North Memphis, used to be a thriving community. But over time, businesses dwindled and left behind poverty in their wake. Other thriving Black neighborhoods, such as Greenwood, or Tulsa, Okla.’s Black Wall Street, and Rosewood, Fla., were destroyed, its people massacred. And then there was New York City’s Seneca Village, a hub...
The Great Black Debate 2020: How do you hold someone accountable who already has your support and vote?
Hate it or love it, like it or not—Joseph Robinette Biden Jr., 77, and Kamala Devi Harris, 55, are the presumptive 2020 Democratic Party nominees for president and vice-president of the United States. Depending on who you ask in Black America, reactions to the Dems’ ticket range from excitement, to disappointment to indifference. However, what is clear is that regardless of...
Family demands transparency, justice in case of Lamond Moses
WILMINGTON, Del.—Overlooked in the long shadows of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor is the January death of Lamond Moses, 30, at the hands of the New Castle County Police Department. Mr. Moses nodded off while warming his car after visiting his mother when the fatal encounter began. In the early morning hours of a frigid January 13, police bodycam video...
Armed Whites targeted Blacks in Kenosha
By Patrice Nkrumah, Special to The Final Call KENOSHA, Wisc.—Authorities in Kenosha County released the names and booking photos of some of the people arrested there during the unrest since the police shooting of Jacob Blake. Of the 252 arrested, over half are from outside of Kenosha County and most are White. The information contradicts the public perception that most of...
Ending the stigma of mental health in the Black Community
Tennis player Naomi Osaka declared to the world that she would not be doing any press during the French Open, a major tennis tournament, due to her mental health. Not long after, Grand Slam organizers slapped her with a $15,000 fine and threatened her with expulsion if she refused to participate in media interviews. Instead of subjecting herself to...
A final salute to Flint, Michigan’s ‘dean of the FOI’ Roy Muhammad
by Tariqah Shakir Muhammad and Andrea Muhammad FLINT, Mich.—Hundreds gathered to pay their final respects at the Salat al-Janazah (Islamic funeral prayer service) honoring Brother Roy Anthony Muhammad’s life, service and sacrifice in Flint, Michigan, at Sheldon T. Banks Funeral Chapel September 23. He was affectionately referred to as the “dean of the FOI” for his dedication in spreading the teachings...