Perspectives
Can Gaza ‘ceasefire’ bring peace?
“Every human being has value. And the value of every human being is what God has put within them when He made them after His own image and likeness. So, as they were minimizing Palestinian life, in the night He was showing me: ‘With every life that they take, that they have diminished, they have diminished the value of...
Making Snow Angels While Black: Cops traumatize an 11-year-old girl
What started as a walk home from school ended with an 11-year-old Black girl in handcuffs, crying, shaken and traumatized after a dangerous encounter with White Onondaga County deputies in Syracuse, New York. Stopping to make snow angels, the young child, who was with her cousin and other girls, was grabbed, cuffed and told she was a car thief. The deputies...
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.: More than a dreamer
by Dr. Khalilah T. Muhammad —Guest Columnist— Shortly after the celebrations of a new year, everywhere around the world, people unify, collaborate and commemorate the birth anniversary and the legacy of America’s Civil Rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. His legacy includes keywords, phrases and titles like, “Give Us the Ballot” (May 17, 1957); “Letter from Birmingham Jail” (April...
A special prosecutor, body cams and questions about justice for Robert Brooks
Letitia James, the Black woman who is New York state attorney general, was applauded after releasing horrific video capturing the merciless beating of a 43-year-old handcuffed Black man by White corrections officers at Marcy Correctional Facility in New York. She also vowed a vigorous investigation into the death of Robert Brooks, after the unwarranted beatdown inside a facility with a...
It’s Saviours’ Day season!
We are coming into a special time of year for the Nation of Islam, Black America, international guests and even curiosity seekers: It’s Saviours’ Day season! It’s time for our annual convention which returns to Chicago, our headquarters’ city, in 2025. The base for our gathering Feb. 21-23 will be the grounds of our National Center and Mosque Maryam. We...
The horrific death of Robert Brooks
The brutal videotaped beating of a handcuffed Black man by White corrections officers at the Marcy Correctional Facility in New York was horrific but not surprising nor shocking. Three corrections officers beat Robert Brooks, 43, the same day he entered the prison, which has a troubled history of abuses and lawsuits. “Robert Brooks died on December 10 following a vicious...
‘We’re in real time watching the system murder my father’
The son and supporters of onetime Black liberation soldier Imam Jamil Al-Amin refuse to watch him die. They are fighting to get him emergency medical treatment in federal prison now. As a soldier in the Black liberation movement, he was known as H. Rap Brown, a bold defender of freedom, justice and equality who earned the enmity of the U.S....
We must depend on Allah God in 2025
As we enter the New Year, it is wise to consider the previous year and lessons to be learned. The New Year can also bring up new vision and inspiration about what we would like to accomplish in 2025 as we seek to make progress and do better. Black America in 2024 faced again serious challenges and were haunted by...
Life, Legacy and Longevity
Remembering Abdul Wali Muhammad “Jesus said, ‘Let him that would be great among you, let him be your servant.’ You cannot serve if you think you are greater than that which you are called to serve. To be a servant means you must see those whom you are called to serve as greater than yourself.” The Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan, speaking...
Syria, America, Israel and a dangerous time
With what is described as the sudden fall of Bashar al-Assad’s regime in Syria, Israel unleashed hundreds of air strikes on its neighbor. America joined the bombing frenzy, saying she wanted to destroy ISIS forces that are among different groups involved in a long, bloody civil war. Fourteen years of conflict have killed more than 350,000 Syrians, displaced millions and...