Editorials
The Day of Judgment –in which we now live
By FinalCall.com News All of the Abrahamic religions teach about the coming of God or a messianic figure at the end of the world. But teachings of God's coming and a day of judgment appear to be either an apocalyptic razing of the planet or day that will never actually come. When the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan delivered his Feb. 22 Saviours'...
Economics and progress in Black History Month
By FinalCall.com News Each February there are celebrations, assignments, contests and even deals and promotions as Black History Month comes in. And while we look back at historical figures, enjoy recitations of speeches and dressing up to act out historic events and personalities, perhaps in 2015, this month can be devoted to looking forward. It's time we not only examine...
‘No one is watching the watchers’
By FinalCall.com News The United States has over one million people locked up in jails and prisons across the country and just over 4,300 people behind bars died in local jails and state prisons in 2012, according to federal officials. On paper most of the deaths are linked to suicide and illness, such as heart disease, but recent disclosures about some...
America’s economic nightmare
By FinalCall.com News Each year the president gives a State of the Union address and each year America pauses to pay symbolic homage to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. As the president speaks to a variety of issues an overriding problem connects the State of the Union and the legacy of Dr. King: economic injustice. Relegating Dr. King to the...
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...