Covid-19 Exposes Rotten Core of America’s ‘Health Care System’
“My aim is to destroy the medical profession, because it is a culture of drugs not a culture of healing.” –The Honorable Elijah Muhammad There is a reason why America’s healthcare system did such a dismal job of confronting the COVID-19 so-called “pandemic.” Her system was already rotten to the core and must be replaced. In fact, according to an...
Five officers charged after Black man paralyzed in police van
NEW HAVEN, Conn.—Five Connecticut police officers were charged in late November with cruelly neglecting a Black man after he was partially paralyzed in the back of a police van, despite his repeated and desperate pleas for help. Randy Cox, 36, was being driven to a New Haven police station June 19 for processing on a weapons charge when the driver...
ADL targets Russell Simmons
(FinalCall.com) - Music mogul Russell Simmons has refused to bow to pressure from the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) to denounce Minister Farrakhan as being anti-Semitic as part of Mr. Simmons' involvement with the Foundation for Ethnic Understanding's new campaign to raise awareness of anti-Semitism. The program involves actors and musicians to film public service announcements identifying with the Jewish people...
Justice Or Else! Local Organizing Committees Convene At Annual Saviours’ Day Convention Review Successes And Share Some Strategies
-Contributing Writer- DETROIT–Members of Justice Or Else! Local Organizing Committees (LOC) representing cities from across the country were reunited here at the Nation of Islam's annual Saviours' Day convention where they reviewed the successes of recent campaigns–and shared pointers for continuing their work for justice. Student Min. Ishmael Muhammad of Mosque Maryam, representing Chicago's LOC, echoed the sentiments of...
Farrakhan issues pointed warning, guidance in perilous times
- Minister Farrakhan calls Black America to action, warns of God's Chastisement MEMPHIS (FinalCall.com) - The Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan issued blunt warnings Oct. 18–commemorating the 14th anniversary of the Million Man March–to the United States government, to the Black community at large, and to Black clergy and other leaders, that conditions today in this country are as bad as...
Wildfires grow bigger and strong winds, snowstorms hit Rockies
BEAVERCREEK, Ore.—Nearly all the dozens of people reported missing after a devastating blaze in southern Oregon have been accounted for, authorities said as crews battled wildfires that have killed at least 35 from California to Washington state. The flames up and down the West Coast have destroyed neighborhoods, leaving nothing but charred rubble and burned-out cars, forced tens...
A demand for justice and transparency Family of young, Black woman killed by police file $30 million lawsuit
The family of a Niani Finlayson, a young, Black woman fatally shot during a 911 domestic violence call has filed a $30 million federal lawsuit against the County of Los Angeles and its sheriff’s department. As 2024 begins, activists are also continuing to demand justice and transparency in the investigation into her tragic death they argue could have been...
Peace activists protest Washington Post coverage
WASHINGTON (FinalCall.com)–The major corporate-owned news media in this country are indifferent to voices of dissent against President George W. Bush’s calls for another war against Iraq, and may actually be hostile to Black opponents, according to a group of activists here who protested outside the offices of The Washington Post to illustrate their point. "There is clearly a political...
Officer’s conviction in the death of George Robinson is overturned
JACKSON, Miss.—The Mississippi Court of Appeals overturned the conviction of a former Jackson Police Department (JPD) detective in the 2019 death of George Robinson, 62, the brother of Bettersten Wade. Former JPD Detective Anthony Fox was acquitted of culpable negligence manslaughter. In the January 30 acquittal, the appeals court majority wrote that the prosecution failed to prove the detective...