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Sisters on the rise

By Charlene Muhammad CHARLENEM The beauty, power and the achievements of Black women LOS ANGELES–From tanning salons, to spray on tans, fake afros, and injections to make posteriors larger, women of other colors are breaking their backs and their banks to look like the Black woman. But at the same time, the Black woman remains degraded, mocked, insulted, and assaulted in...

Urban League: Racial equality gap persists

- Targeted jobs program needed in bad economy WASHINGTON (FinalCall.com) - "Chronic unemployment" persists in Black communities, which is helping to worsen the racial “equality gap” in this country in education, housing and social justice: That is the true “State of Black America 2010,” according to the National Urban League. “I believe that we're at a time of crisis and crossroads,”...

Movement toward peace in Newark’s streets

Contributing Writer @mzmuhammad1 NEWARK–According to law enforcement officials and advocates in the juvenile justice arena, street organizations or “gangs” in New Jersey have changed. It's alarming, according to New Jersey State Police data, that the new gangs are smaller, younger, less entrepreneurial and more violent than their traditional, older predecessors. The older gangs were focused on making money through...

Police shooting raises questions on review process

CHARLENEM INGLEWOOD, Calif. (FinalCall.com) - Officer Brian Ragan of the Inglewood Police Department was already under investigation for the shooting death of an unarmed man in May when he fatally shot a 38-year-old postal employee at his home on July 21. Family members and friends told The Final Call that at about 12:30 a.m., Kevin Wicks was in his home, minding...

Competency trial date set for accused killer of teen girl

By Charlene Muhammad CHARLENEM A judge granted prosecutors' request and ordered the 27-yearold White male accused of fatally stabbing Black teen Nia Wilson on a Bay Area train platform to undergo an expert psychiatric evaluation on May 30. In a hearing on May 6, the judge set a competency trial date for July 29. John Cowell, a convicted felon and an...

‘Trial 4:’ What the Netflix documentary left out

When Boston Police Officer Detective John Mulligan was murdered while he slept in front of a Walgreens in 1993 many in the Black community were not surprised. “He was a known corrupt cop. There were plenty of people he put in jail because of his false testimony,” Ralph Muhammad, a longtime Boston resident told The Final Call. “He wrongfully arrested...

Anthony Fauci’s Disastrous COVID Policies

Part 2 of a Series on Best-selling Book Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.’s new book, The Real Anthony Fauci: Bill Gates, Big Pharma, and the Global War on Democracy and Public Health (Skyhorse Publishing), is again the Number One best seller at Amazon.com. We continue this week with Part 2 of the Introduction to this 452-page book which has exposed the satanic aims and...

Inequitable algorithms: Facial recognition’s alarming pattern of misidentifying Black people sparks calls for reform

Recent research conducted by Scientific American Online supported fears that facial recognition technology (FRT) can worsen racial inequities in policing. The research found that law enforcement agencies that use automated facial recognition disproportionately arrest Black people. The report’s authors stated that they believe these results come from factors that include the “lack of Black faces in the algorithms’ training data sets,...

Thousands enjoy Saviours’ Day 2011 message, convention

Saviours' Day 2011 Website (http://NOI.org/SavioursDay) (FinalCall.com) - It was a scene like no other. Traveling by any means of transportation available; airplane, car, bus and train, thousands upon thousands of men, women and children from around the country packed Allstate Area in Rosemont, Ill., Feb. 27 to witness the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan deliver the keynote address at Saviours'...

Top Doctor Alleges: ‘A psychopathic entity is influencing health policy’

by Tingba Muhammad The world depopulation agenda has been dealt a serious blow with the recent revelations of the noted British cardiologist Dr. Aseem Malhotra, a twice “vaccinated” jab proponent who is now demanding a worldwide halt to the COVID-19 vaccine program. “There is a strong scientific, ethical and moral case to be made that the current COVID vaccine administration...