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Ignoring divine guidance and growing chaos in Iraq

By FinalCall.com News After spending billions of dollars and with the loss of thousands of lives, the United States is again looking at Iraq and pondering what to do.   At Final Call press time, Secretary of Defense John Kerry was touting possible air strikes to stop the reported lightning quick strike of Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham forces nearly...

A liar in the White House, danger for the country

FINALCALL.COM Dear America, Your president is a liar. It may seem impolite or indelicate to call him such, but too much is at stake to not speak the truth. This is especially important for news media, the so-called guardian of democracy whose lap dog repetition of Bush administration lies about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq helped lead to almost two decades...

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...

EDITORIAL: Reaping the bitter fruit of rejection

“And on the day when the wrongdoer will bite his hands, saying, would that I had taken a way with the Messenger!” Holy Qur’an 25:27 The loss of life in Afghanistan is horrifying, whether the images of bodies falling from U.S. planes, or those who died in what American officials described as a suicide bombing. It reportedly killed 13 U.S....

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...

Redistribute the pain: Keep your dollars in your pockets

FINALCALL.COM It's been four years since the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan introduced the subject “Justice Or Else!” to mark the 20th anniversary of the historic Million Man March, which drew some two million Black men to Washington, D.C., under the banner of atonement, reconciliation and responsibility. A major part of responsibility is taking charge of the destiny of our community and...

The Medium, the Messenger and the Media Mission Matter

By Final Call Staff When a video clip of powerhouse CBS interviewer Gayle King was posted online, it went viral for all the wrong reasons. In the clip, Ms. King is interviewing basketball legend Lisa Leslie and dredges up an assault allegation about the late basketball star Kobe Bryant. Ms. Leslie responds that the unproven allegation doesn't complicate Kobe's legacy...

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...

No rights a White man is bound to respect or protect?

If voting is the foundation of democracy and a sacred right of the citizens of any nation, the explosion of coverage about recent changes to voting laws in Georgia and pending voting rights legislation at the federal level should be getting intense scrutiny. And for Black folks who have invested so much into elections and voting, in particular in national...

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...