Editorials
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...
Conspiracy theories and unnecessary Black deaths
By FinalCall.com News When an emergency arises in Africa or elsewhere in the Black world, our vulnerability to those who provide care for us surfaces alongside the threat to life that must be responded to. Such vulnerability should lead to questions about who is providing the care and the service, their agenda and whether we are truly being served. Such questions about...
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...
We shut this down! No justice, no profit more than a slogan as holiday spending falls
By FinalCall.com News It has been well over 100 days since Mike Brown, 18, lay in the street near where he lived shot dead for over four hours. Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson shot the unarmed Black teen to death. It has been well over 100 days that Black youth have been in the streets unafraid, unwavering and unwilling to just go...
Lessons for Ferguson and beyond
By FinalCall.com News When the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan spoke at Morgan State University, his words were powerful and his warning was clear: America is on the edge of a racial explosion and no amount of pacification nor denial can solve the problem. He described Ferguson, Mo., as the spark that could ignite the country and the reason why any who...
The King letter and sordid government surveillance
By FinalCall.com News (FinalCall.com) - The recent disclosure that a researcher found an unedited copy of an infamous FBI letter sent to civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr., may have taken some by surprise and may have left the mainstream media gasping in shock. But these responses betray a woeful ignorance that exists among the American public and the media's...
Disunity, money, midterm madness and the continued decline of a nation
By FinalCall.com News Midterm elections are over and the president whose party lost seats and control of the Congress has had his obligatory post-election meeting with GOP leaders. The mainstream pundits, commentators and columnists insist voters sent a signal: Government needs to work and people are tired of gridlock. If that was the signal voters aren't likely to see much evidence...
The fire next time’in Ferguson
By FinalCall.com News If protests are supposed to last a maximum of three days, demonstrations in Ferguson, Mo., and nearby St. Louis must seem like a lifetime to those tired of the noise, the disruption, the anger, the focus on and monitoring of law enforcement agencies and political leaders. It has been nearly three months since the body of 18-year-old Mike...
Black problems, politics and our survival
By FinalCall.com News Mid-term 2014 elections scheduled for Tuesday, Nov. 4, have candidates out shaking hands and running attack and counter attack ads with all of the seats in the House of Representatives and 33 seats in the Senate on the line. Governors will be chosen in 38 states and territories along with representatives for state legislatures and local governments. Much...
The test of time and divine ideas
By Richard B. Muhammad KINGSTON, Jamaica (FinalCall.com) - If time is the test of all men and all ideas, the Nation of Islam's highly successful 19th anniversary celebration of the Million Man March in Jamaica was further proof that there is something special about this movement that started nearly 85 years ago in Detroit. It was 40 years ago that Muhammad Ali,...