Perspectives
The unraveling of soulless America
Despite calls from Democratic presidential hopeful Joe Biden to take the country back and restore its soul, the soul of America died long ago. If she ever had one.Thousands of people in the streets don’t signal an awakening in America, it is another sign of the failures of this nation. The only thing that seems to move the powerful and...
Obama Distances Himself From Blacks: Is There a Cost?
By Ron Walters-Guest Columnist- Is There a Cost? Just back from the Rainbow Push convention in Chicago sponsored by Rev. Jesse Jackson, Sr., I was struck by the fact that neither Barack nor Michelle Obama showed up and they live virtually right down the street. The symbol of Obama’s absence was made even more vivid to me because he was out...
African Union High Level Panel on Darfur – A Blueprint For What Plagues Africa
While my mind focuses on the billions of dollars the Obama administration and its so-called allies will have to somehow cough up to “secure” Afghanistan, I begin to wonder why the world community couldn't apply the same math to the nearly two-year-old promise of the UN Security Council to supply the African Union/United Nations Hybrid operations in Darfur...
A Brief History of ‘Latinos’ in the Nation of Islam
By David J. Muhammad -Guest Columnist- In the early 1930s Master Fard Muhammad, the supremely wise teacher of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad taught his student of the ultimate unity between Blacks and the native indigenous peoples of this hemisphere. This process began first with qualifying Black people through a process of re-education and civilization, undoing the damage done to them...
Go Back to Africa: Did Hip Hop Sell Out ?
For the last 20 years there have been numerous discussions about the plight of Hip Hop and the pseudo-culture that it created. What is rarely discussed, however, is the historical fact that the further the genre became disconnected from its African roots, the worse it became. Although, many people point to some sort of government conspiracy or...
Armed, angry, dangerous’and White
By FinalCall.com News America's angry White men are claiming a victory in Nevada after punking the federal government in a dispute over land, fees and grazing rights. Rancher Cliven Bundy, backed by gun-toting supporters, political leaders and the right wing media, forced federal officials to high tail it off federal land and fall back on efforts to collect $1 million the...
The King letter and sordid government surveillance
By FinalCall.com News (FinalCall.com) - The recent disclosure that a researcher found an unedited copy of an infamous FBI letter sent to civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr., may have taken some by surprise and may have left the mainstream media gasping in shock. But these responses betray a woeful ignorance that exists among the American public and the media's...
Black America’s preeminent leader performs another miracle
By Richard B. Muhammad - Editor There is an old joke that goes if Jesus got out of a boat and walked on water, today's media headlines would read: “Jesus can't swim!” Deliberately deceptive and dangerous mis-characterizations of the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan of the Nation of Islam take the modern Jesus reference out of the realm of humor and into...
Who will defend and develop Haiti?
By Final Call News The news is horrible and heartbreaking from Haiti with the death toll of some 1,000 people and hundreds of thousands of others lacking food, clothing, shelter and clean water in the Black Republic. Word of aid to Haiti is coming out now but we cannot be satisfied with promises and platitudes. We have to be engaged and...
Learning the lessons of history and rejecting the lies of the past
By Richard B. Muhammad - Editor The Jewish and right wing media have gone wild with publication of a photo of Nation of Islam Minister Louis Farrakhan and then U.S. Senator Barack Obama taken over a decade ago. Not content with howling at Mr. Obama, these jackals now clamor and declare: how could the Congressional Black Caucus associate with the Minister...