Editorials
An Enemy Disagreeable To Live With In Peace And Our Self-InflIicted Wounds
By Final Call News Revelations that the Nixon administration fostered the War On Drugs as a way to neutralize political enemies seen in Black America and the counter culture hippie movement during the 1960s and 1970s barely brought a reaction from Black leaders and Black organizations. Writer Dan Baum repeated an admission he attributed to Nixon-aide John Ehrlichman, who served jail...
America’s Failing Democracy
By Final Call News The United States has tried to export and bludgeon nations into accepting her version of democracy. But the death of a system corrupted by big money, special interests and obstacles to the basic right to vote is on display in 2016 runs for the Republican and Democratic presidential nominations. The GOP debacle is the biggest example of...
Stop Hiding Behind Lies’A Challenge To The ADL
By Richard B. Muhammad - Editor Jonathan Greenblatt, the national director and CEO of the Anti-Defamation League, has started his new tenure playing the ADL's old, tired track falsely painting the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan as a bigot and an anti-Semite. Despite an admirable, well-reasoned argument and appeal for dialogue from hip hop guru Russell Simmons, who has worked with Jewish...
Nation Of Islam Responds To Recent ADL Anti-Semitism Claim
By Attorney Ava Muhammad (Editor's note: We are pleased this week to share on our Editorial page a defense of the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan delivered in writing by a member of the Nation of Islam Executive Council, a student minister and the spokesperson for the Minister and Nation of Islam.) Over the years, the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan has been...
Defending Farrakhan In 2016
By Richard B. Muhammad - Editor In any situation, there comes a time when enough is enough and that time has come for those who malign and attempt to smear the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan. Some of the latest slime was thrown by columnist Mary Mitchell of the Chicago Sun-Times, who took great umbrage at the fact that Min. Farrakhan said the...
Black Lives Matter-More Than Just A Debate Topic
By The Final Call Black voters and issues were given center stage in the 2016 presidential election for the first time during the recent Democratic Party debate in Charleston, S. C. Finally, it was admitted in a big way that Black Voters Matter when it comes to who will capture the White House in the fall. All three Democratic hopefuls, Hillary...
No justice for Tamir Rice, no faith in the system
By Final Call News With the decision not to indict officers in the killing of Tamir Rice in Cleveland Black people once again come face to face with what happens when you “respect the process” and “reserve judgment:” Nothing. Over a year after the 12-year-old was shot to death in a park after playing with a toy gun, Cuyahoga County Prosecutor...
A mistrial in Baltimore must not equal a missed chance for justice
By Richard B. Muhammad - Editor In Baltimore a jury was unable to reach a verdict in the trial of Officer William Porter, who was charged with manslaughter, assault, reckless endangerment and misconduct in the death of Freddie Gray. That must not mean deserting the fight for justice for the 25-year-old Black man who died after a ride in a...
Embrace opportunity, not opportunism in Chicago
By Final Call News Chicago is on fire with a level of awareness, outrage and activism not seen since the heady days when the late Mayor Harold Washington was trying to reform a system and government rife with racism, patronage and corruption. An uprising led by young people who have been in the streets protesting for over a year and a...
Make America great again – for who?
By Final Call News When Donald Trump entered the race for the Republican Party nomination for president, the laughter was loud and long among the pundits and GOP establishment. The laughing is over now as “the Donald” continues to lead in polls as other “serious” candidates have dropped out of the race or are mired in extremely low poll numbers. The...