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Defending Kanye West

By Richard B. Muhammad -Editor- Black Twitter was ablaze and much of Black America was enraged after a meeting between Kanye West and President Donald...

Sixteen shots, a cover up and challenging authority

By Final Call News “Sixteen shots and a cover up!” was the cry of protestors and activists as the hidden video of a 2014 police...

Twisting Aretha’s Gospel

By Final Call News While Jewish groups and leaders love to recite the myth of an incredible Black-Jewish relationship, history proves otherwise. And, in their...

The Farrakhan Question and the Problem with White America

By Richard B. Muhammad, editor There are some things that White America simply did not understand about the funeral service and memorials for the late,...

A violent video and message to Black Chicago?

By Final Call News After the shooting of a 37-year-old Black barber by a rookie police officer in Chicago's South Shore neighborhood, the police chief...

Police public relations isn’t transparency and won’t end the policing crisis

By Final Call News A freeze frame video released by police showed Harith Augustus confronted by officers and that he was apparently armed in a...

Time to join movement for power in Chicago?

By Final Call News Father Michael Pfleger of St. Sabina Church in Chicago drew national news and set the city abuzz with chatter after a...

The sadness, sorrow and necessity of fighting a war on two fronts

By Final Call News Antwon Rose, Thana Muhammad and Lesandro Guzman-Ortiz never knew one another in life. But their tragic and painful deaths remind us...

Race-splaining, ‘problematic friends’ and Shaun King

By Richard B. Muhammad -Editor- As a writer, Shaun King is a racial explainer paid to decipher issues of bias, injustice and America's inescapable crisis...

Unsettling murder in Oklahoma

By Final Call News of   two young men whose dismembered bodies were found chained to cinder blocks in a pond has spread across Black...