Student Minister Troy Muhammad returns to prison bringing the light of Islam
By Abdullah Muhammad - National Prison Reform Minister The last time Student Minister Troy Muhammad walked the hallways and yards of Ryan Correctional Facility it was in shackles as an inmate. But earlier this year he returned to Ryan Correctional Facility, not as a repeat offender or parole violator, but as the Detroit Representative of the Honorable Louis Farrakhan, Student...
Thousands outside arena pay tribute to ‘Neighborhood Nip’
CHARLENEM and Abdul A. M. Muhammd LOS ANGELES–Tens of thousands of people, many of them without tickets showed up outside the Staples Center to mourn but also to celebrate the life of Ermias Joseph Asghedom, the rapper and self-made businessman known as Nipsey Hussle. One young man who identified himself only as Dominique from Riverside didn't have a ticket, but...
Commissioners rule LAPD force excessive
LOS ANGELES (FinalCall.com) - The Los Angeles Police Department's (LAPD) Board of Commissioners ruled four to one Jan. 31 that Officer Stephen Garcia acted out of policy when he shot and killed 13-year-old Devin Brown during an early morning traffic stop Feb. 6, 2005. According to community activists, the unprecedented ruling followed two decisions that followed the...
M.G.T. and G.C.C. of Mosque No. 5 hosts a sisterhood circle
CINCINNATI—A small, but mighty group of M.G.T. and G.C.C. (Muslim Girls Training and General Civilization Class, the women of the Nation of Islam) at Muhammad Mosque No. 5 in Cincinnati, Ohio, gathered in an intimate, cinema style setting at the first Sisters’ Circle social to view the recently released and much talked about Netflix film Leave the World Behind...
Dis-United States of America
and Richard B. Muhammad -Final Call Staffers- Nine years after 9/11 tragedy, America suffers from serious divisions, rhetoric is heating up. Where is the country headed? NEW YORK (FinalCall.com) - A strong anti-Islam sentiment and national disunity on the nine-year anniversary of September 11, 2001 has many asking what happened to that sense of solidarity, the seductive dream of unity that engulfed...
Saving the Queen Mother Moore International House
(FinalCall.com) - For more than 20 years, the Queen Mother Moore International House has provided a range of services to the Black community in Harlem. Named after the mother of the Reparations Movement, Audley Moore, the building is now under threat of foreclosure for failure to pay over $400,000 in back taxes. “We're fighting to keep our building,” Dr....
Soldiering and service in a mighty mission
Every week the Fruit of Islam (F.O.I.) push hard to deliver The Final Call newspaper to the people in their communities around the country. The brothers share the wisdom and information contained in the paper and also share the divine word of God and the life-changing message contained in the Teachings of the Most Honorable Elijah Muhammad under the leadership...
Blacks face fatal police, vigilante encounters as 2020 closes
“Fatal police shootings are a public health emergency that contribute to poor health for BIPOC.” This was the conclusion to a recent report about racial inequity in fatal police shootings during the time span of 2015-2020. BIPOC is short for Black, Indigenous, and People of Color. The report was done by researchers at Yale University and the University of Pennsylvania, and...
Racist column spawns dialogue, not division
LOS ANGELES (FinalCall.com) - A column titled, “Why I Hate Blacks,” advocating discrimination and hatred, was published in the San Francisco-based AsianWeek newspaper Feb. 23, near the close of Black History Month. The piece sparked the usual outrage, apologies, terminations, dialogues and press conferences that routinely follow outbursts of bigotry. But beyond the question of accountability, time,...
A shared struggle for freedom, justice and equality
The Final Call examines the historical parallels and intertwined struggles of Blacks in America with the Palestinian people for freedom, justice, and equality. The temporary halting of the bombarding of Gaza by the Israeli occupation forces is no more, as attacks resumed on the Palestinian people at Final Call press time. With carnage and devastation in Gaza dominating media since...