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Out of prison and on a mission

By FinalCall.com News When it comes to incarceration, the numbers and the reality are daunting: There are about 2.3 million people locked up in prisons and jails across America. Nearly one million of those who are incarcerated are Black. The Pew Center reports, “Black men were more than six times as likely as White men to be incarcerated in federal and...

Carnage In Two Cities And A War On Two Fronts

By Final Call News Running for your life has to be one of the most terrifying experiences that a person can have. Imagine the heart pumping fear, adrenaline pulsing through the veins, panicked prayers and hope for someone, anyone to help. Two reports of Blacks running for their lives are heart wrenching and heart breaking as both of these people, in...

The Crucifixion of Cori Bush

The Zionist lobby has struck boldly and dastardly once again. AIPAC, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, pumped in millions of dollars to defeat Cori Bush, a Black female congresswoman from St. Louis. She had the audacity to believe she should be able to speak her mind, act on her political beliefs and serve her constituents in...

Black Lives Matter or Black Lives Should Matter …

By FinalCall.com News As the year comes to a close, reflections about what the outgoing year brought and what the upcoming year will bring are appropriate. The point of such reflections is to learn from what has happened and to take those lessons into the new year. This year has brought a declaration that is truly worthy of thinking about and it...

The value of guidance in dark times

By Final Call News Whatever your spiritual or political persuasion, you could likely agree that these are dark times. Whether the issue is the level of violence, intractable poverty, confusion of leaders, sheer lack of morality and empathy or a type of manic, self-absorption that demands individual satisfaction no matter the cost, these are truly times that try the souls...

Peace On Earth ‘¦ Good Will Toward Men?

FINALCALL.COM This time of year brings music, sentiment and declarations of joy to the world. It's lovely music and a lovely thought but it's also a lovely lie. We need a proper understanding of this man Jesus, who is supposed to be the reason for the season. Nothing could be further from the truth. We need a different understanding of the...

Targeting Islam when Muslims suffer most from violence

By FinalCall.com News The eyes of the world have been turned to France and America seems poised to reenergize paranoia about terrorist threats and a false image of a psychotic Islam. The killing of innocent people in France is something that is to be condemned by all who understand the sacredness of life and who follow the law of God, which prohibits...

Sin sick America’s gun madness and solutions from a divinely guided warner

Mason Schermerhorn is a 14-year-old Black child who was tragically killed during a mass shooting at Apalachee High School in Winder, Georgia. After tears, expressions of condolences and prayers, a gun-addicted country will continue to do almost nothing to save lives. This is a society devoid of spiritual values and dominated by gun madness. “As chairman of the Senate Study Committee...

Pseudo slavemasters and an assault on Black leadership

By Final Call News The sharp knives are out and demands for the political castration of Black lawmakers and leaders have been issued by Jewish publications, groups and the right wing media. After falling into rabid fake outrage with the publication of a 12-year-old photo of then-U.S. Senator Barack Obama and the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan, these demons upped the pressure...

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...