Editorials
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...
The blind and the seeing are not alike
By FinalCall.com News Word that 14-year-old Endia Martin was dead from a gunshot, a shot allegedly fired by another 14-year-old girl, was very painful. She was laid to rest on May 5 in a service that attracted grieving mourners, adults and children and even Chicago Bulls basketball star Derrick Rose, a product of the Windy City. The girl's funeral was held...
FCN Editorial The peril of an imperial presidency
FINALCALLNEWS October 22, 2002 If lines were not clear before Oct. 10, the congressional vote to give President Bush war-making powers against Iraq will further expose domestic and international divisions over how America should proceed. With the peace movement growing and the world still unconvinced, America’s democratically elected leaders bowed a bit lower to an imperial presidency. A presidency that apparently knows...
Who framed Marilyn J. Mosby and what are we going to do about it?
By Richard B. Muhammad BALTIMORE- There are some predictable things in my hometown: Downtown crowds will drown their woes in beer after the Orioles major league team has a bad night. Baltimore Ravens football fans will paint their faces purple and black, donning like colored wigs to show support for the NFL team and sharing deep hatred for the Pittsburgh Steelers...
We Must Fulfill The Vision Of Nipsey Hussle
FINALCALL.COM Related news: Statement on the Passing of Nipsey Hussle Mourning, Missing, Honoring Nipsey Hussle Rebuilding and Buying the Block Nipsey was true hip hop culture: revolutionary, unapologetic, standing for the rise of a people Ermias Asghedom, who was born to an Eritrean father and a Black American mother, grew up in the Crenshaw section of Los Angeles and was known to the world as...
TRUTH IS BEING REVEALED: DON’T BE MISLED
News coverage and analysis of a yet-to-be-released official federal report on what has been referred to as UFOs has exploded. This summertime blockbuster isn’t a movie and it isn’t even out yet, but we should all be paying attention. Some most important aspects of this “controversy” have already been admitted even as we await the report’s findings. These forced admissions of the...
Defending our voice of comfort and love
The service at the Christian Cultural Center in Brooklyn was a special moment for Black people and countless others who were touched by the life, the legacy and the love of Earl “DMX” Simmons. In a very painful moment, those who were sorrowing, especially the women and children in his life, were able to enjoy some measure of relief...
Van Jones’ Misguided View
By Richard B. Muhammad - Editor Van Jones should know a thing or two about mischaracterizations, false narratives and unequal comparisons. The CNN contributor was driven out of the Obama White House by Republicans who accused him of a ton of things–ranging from accusations he was a Communist, to charges he was a left wing extremist, to the charge that...
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...
Omarosa, the ADL and Farrakhan
By Final Call News Omarosa Manigualt was going about her business during a call in to WVON-AM 1690, Chicago's Black Talk radio station. She was interviewed by morning show hosts Maze Jackson and Charles Thomas about her role in the Trump administration as the point person for outreach to Black America. In the conversation, Omarosa shared her priority issues–education, economics, crime...