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...
Neo-slavery in the American South
By Brian E. Muhammad and Richard B. MuhammadFinal Call Staff Writers Though called by other names, poor Blacks are kept in bondage today in the United States COLUMBIA, S.C. (FinalCall.com) - Nearly 150 years after Emancipation, trapped by extreme poverty, isolation, fear and shame, some Blacks remain victims of neo-slavery in rural areas of the South, locked into work in...
Massachusetts Dems urge Biden to take Cuba off U.S. terrorism list
Following a private briefing on Capitol Hill in which a U.S. State Department official angered Democratic lawmakers by revealing that the Biden administration has not yet begun a lengthy review process to remove Cuba from the government’s list of “State Sponsors of Terror,” Reps. Ayanna Pressley and Jim McGovern led other Massachusetts Democrats in demanding that the White House expedite the...
Spreading word about what health reform means now
-Staff Writer- WASHINGTON (FinalCall.com) - Several health care benefits took effect September 23, including a patients' bill of rights that prohibits insurance companies from discriminating against children with pre-existing conditions and allows young people to stay on their parents' plans until age 26 if necessary. “This issue is really personal for me,” said Toby Serrano from Immaculate Heart of Mary...
Tyre Nichols remembered by family, friends one year after his death
by Zakiyyah Muhammad @zakiyyahmaryam_ MEMPHIS—Candles, framed photos of Tyre Nichols, and “Justice for Tyre” signs surround the exact spot where the young, Black man was brutally beaten by Memphis police. One year later, a vigil honoring Tyre Nichols was held on Jan. 7 at 6727 Castlegate Lane in the city. And, one year later his family and friends are still demanding...
Justice: God’s weapon in judgment of this world
ROCKFORD, Ill. (FinalCall.com) - God created man to experience a full and complete freedom by giving humanity a moral compass to determine right from wrong, said the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan to an attentive audience in this once thriving but now struggling city. Human beings are either creating good for themselves and generations to come, or bad, based on...
California pummeled by first of back-to-back atmospheric rivers
LOS ANGELES—Heavy rain flooded roadways and much-needed snow piled up in the mountains on Feb. 1 as the first of back-to-back atmospheric rivers pummeled California. The storm focused its energy on the southern and eastern parts of the state after initially hitting the San Francisco Bay Area on Jan. 31, where it halted cable car service. The Los Angeles and San Diego areas were expecting a deluge...
HUD report: Low income renters suffering
(FinalCall.com) - The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development recently released its bi-annual report to Congress on the housing needs of low income Americans. It shows an increased number of very low income households have severe housing difficulties, particularly housing costs that far exceed what they can afford. The findings of the 66-page“Worst Case Housing Needs 2009: Report To...
Wet winter storm hits California, closing regional airport and trapping people in swollen rivers
SAN FRANCISCO—Another wet winter storm swamped California with heavy rainfall on Feb. 19, flooding the runways at a regional airport and leading to several rescues on swollen rivers and creeks. The Santa Barbara airport, on the state’s central coast, closed Feb. 19 after as much as 10 inches of rain had fallen in the area by noon, covering the runways...
Overfunding prisons while neglecting education
Study examines misplaced priorities in United States (FinalCall.com) - A new report from the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is critical of America's “misplaced priorities” in overemphasizing and overfunding the prison industrial complex while underfunding education. According to NAACP President and CEO Benjamin T. Jealous, excessive spending on incarceration undermines educational opportunities and destabilizes Black communities nationwide. “Today,...