Editorials
Biden’s Backstabbing, Haiti, Blacks, and False Promises
“The government only wants to pacify her once slaves with fancy false promises that she knows she cannot fulfill without the loss of friendship and bloodshed among her own people. But there is nothing like a good future in these rosy promises for the so-called Negroes.” —The Honorable Elijah Muhammad, “Message To the Black Man,” 1965 When thousands of Haitian immigrants...
The Color of American Injustice
By FinalCall.com News When certain things happen, you almost automatically can assume that the victim is Black, such things include fatal police encounters with officers during routine traffic stops and criminal justice decisions that defy logic and render no justice. In recent weeks there have been stories of Black men in Florida, Arkansas and North Carolina, who died in incidents with...
The NFL, domestic abuse and Black America’s degraded condition
By FinalCall.com News The videotaped encounter between former NFL player Ray Rice and his then-fiancée have opened floodgates of discussion about domestic violence and the respect and treatment of women. It has also shown just how far this society is off when it comes to understanding the value of women, family and civilized behavior. It has shown just how much celebrity,...
Black America’s preeminent leader performs another miracle
By Richard B. Muhammad - Editor There is an old joke that goes if Jesus got out of a boat and walked on water, today's media headlines would read: “Jesus can't swim!” Deliberately deceptive and dangerous mis-characterizations of the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan of the Nation of Islam take the modern Jesus reference out of the realm of humor and into...
The awful price of violence today and tomorrow
By Final Call News There was good news for six days in the city of Chicago: No one had been shot and killed. It's sad that such a small window without a gun death was major news because it flew in the face of almost daily reports that someone in the third largest city in America lost life at the barrel...
In Defense of Farrakhan
By Richard B. Muhammad -Editor- It was a beautiful October day. The spirit was high despite a sometimes brisk wind, but those assembled and many others tuned in via the internet were uplifted and inspired by words spoken by the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan at the Aretha Franklin Amphitheater in Detroit. But the enemies followed behind a good man, a great...
Trump, Treason And The Fall Of America
FINALCALL.COM Upset by demands for documents, witnesses to testify and a fast-moving impeachment process unfolding in the U.S. House of Representatives, the president of the United States declared the country could be headed toward a “civil war” if he is removed from power. America has moved to another critical point, a potential point of explosion as House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.)...
Kind words can’t save a troubled nation
A year after the Covid-19 pandemic struck, President Joe Biden delivered a prime time address from the White House and offered a much different tone than his predecessor, Donald Trump. Yet for all of Mr. Biden’s words and wishes, he still presides over a divided republic and, at times, his call for bipartisan legislative action is being used against...
Happy Saviours’ Day 2022! We Stand With Allah (God)!
“And proclaim the Pilgrimage among men: they will come to thee on foot and (mounted) on every kind of camel, lean on account of journeys through deep and distant mountain highways … ” Holy Qur’an, Chapter 22, Verse 27, Abdullah Yusuf Ali translation For the global Islamic community, there is the beauty of the pilgrimage to the Holy City of Mecca...
A sign of troubling times?
By FinalCall.com News Just a couple weeks into the New Year comes an incident that raises concerns, questions and fears about what Black folks can expect in 2014 and the climate in the country. Not surprisingly it involves a Black male driver and an encounter with law enforcement. The circumstances reported by the man's family and the images posted on his...