Editorials
Leadership You Can Disbelieve In
By Final Call News The presidential election for 2016 is unlike any in modern U.S. history and perhaps in the history of the United States as two widely unpopular, distrusted and polarizing candidates seek to lead the country. Neither seems particularly outfitted to handle such a role in a way that will bring America together and neither seems to have...
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...
A voice for Black America passes
By Richard B. Muhammad - Editor The passing of George E. Curry, a great defender and supporter of the Black Press and an important editor and journalist, was sudden and difficult for me to hear. I had known Mr. Curry, as I usually called him, for some years. I took a trip with him to Algeria and Western Sahara in North...
Independence Day for the Black Man and Woman
By Final Call News The Independence Day celebrations are over. The barbeques are done. The flags are put away. America has marked another year of her sovereignty and her break with Great Britain to chart her own course. When she broke away 240 years ago, she was an upstart and a rebel against one of the greatest powers in the...
What About Jessica?
By Richard B. Muhammad - Editor Murder is a horrible thing but some killings are so gruesome, so wanton that they elicit a special brand of shock, horror, pain and dismay. The brutal and public killing of a young mother on a Chicago subway train is an infuriating horror story. In broad daylight, Jessica Hampton was stabbed and had her throat cut...
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 Protocol For A New Black Man And Return To God-Hood
By Final Call News In a powerful message delivered at Mosque Maryam, the center for the retraining of the Black Man and Woman and a house devoted to the work of the Messiah and the Great Mahdi, Dr. Wesley Muhammad explored and explained the efforts to destroy the masculinity of the Black man and to feminize the Black man. In...
Sowing seeds of rage
By Final Call News Just over a year ago, The Final Call newspaper published its first cover story about unrest in Baltimore. The headline read, “Black pain, Black rage!” and attempted to tell the story of what was underneath unrest that exploded in the city. The fights, protests and fires eventually drew the attention of the world and the intervention...
Police Surveillance Of Protest Groups: A Problem We Can’t Afford
By Final Call News Arrests may be down and killings may be up, but the Chicago Police Department has been diligently spying on groups that have the audacity to exercise their so-called democratic right to protest and their civic duty to hold elected officials accountable. The Chicago Sun-Times reported April 9, “As Mayor Rahm Emanuel faced growing criticism last fall over...
An Unhappy Anniversary
By Final Call News This year marked the 48th anniversary of the death of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and included remembrances and writings that paid tribute to the drum major for justice and civil rights movement martyr. Absent from the remembrances and the ceremonial programs was a very simple tribute to Dr. King: A demand that all involved in his...