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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...

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 city that allows for legal carrying of concealed weapons. The video also shows the 37 year old Black barber breaking away from officers in the South Shore community in Chicago. Officials say the video shows...

The color of compassion

FINALCALL.COM Much of the country was tuned in to see the outcome of the trial of former Dallas police officer Amber Guyger, a White female, who was charged with murdering a Black man in his own home. She was found guilty by a jury, sentenced to 10 years in prison and embraced by the brother of the man she killed...

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 Saturday shutdown of a major South Side expressway. Unless you want people dying as a result of getting struck by cars, the authorities absolutely had to get involved because protestors walking on a highway is a...

The Aim of This World? Kill The Messenger of God

FINALCALL.COM Unrelenting attacks on the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan have continued and moved again into Congress under the guise of an anti-hate resolution. It is insulting and beyond ironic that a man who repairs and uplifts those damaged and destroyed by hatred has become the target of such blatant and vicious lies. But, it's not an unexpected travesty for a nation...

America’s Deep Decline

“The responsibility of the well-being of the people of this nation rests primarily on the shoulders of the leadership. The Honorable Elijah Muhammad said to us that neither justice nor peace shall come to the nations of the earth until the 400-year-old problem of Black people in America has been solved with justice. The reason why no other nation...

The sting of hatred and our survival

By FinalCall.com News Just when you thought Halloween, blackface and slave costumes had retired for the year comes news of a “Catch An Illegal” immigrant event on a college campus in Texas. According to writer Scott Kaufman of rawstory.com, the University of Texas at Austin chapter of the Young Conservatives of Texas scheduled the “game” for Wednesday, Nov. 20. “According to event's Facebook...

The Bitter Tears Of Angela Rye And Other Black Apologists

By Final Call News Analyst Angela Rye decided to wade in on the attacks on the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan and the   continued targeting of the Nation of Islam minister by Jewish leaders, groups and organizations. Through tears, she spoke of her “pain” over words allegedly spoken by Min. Farrakhan. He needs to just stop talking about Jews, she declared,...

Hiding the truth about CIA secret prisons

By Final Call News While all things Russian, Putin and Trump dominate much of U.S. news coverage, another important aspect of U.S. history and policy is going largely unnoticed and may never see the light of day. In news reports June 2, the New York Times and CNN were among outlets that revealed plans by the Trump administration to lock away...

Misguided talk of misogyny

By Richard B. Muhammad - Editor A snippet of an interview the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan conducted recently has sparked intense debate and been filed under headlines decrying misogyny–“dislike of, contempt for, or ingrained prejudice against women.” The misdirected headlines and the Twitterverse fire were based on mischaracterization of the Minister's words as he spoke of the need to elevate and respect...