Editorials
Kanye, Drake And Signs of Brotherhood
There has not been a lot of joy in the world of hip hop lately. Manipulated by powerful forces in the music and cultural industry, hip hop’s lyrics, language and spirit have been contentious, hypersexualized, violent and filled with disunity. The billion dollar, global art form is far from its origins today. Tragically, hip hop battles have not simply been...
Hope for change isn’t change: Don’t be confused
FINALCALL.COM While thousands have been in the streets with protests in all 50 states and some 18 countries, declarations that the United States is on the cusp of major change are premature. That might not be the popular thing to say, but it's true. White demonstrators in the streets don't guarantee change has arrived nor the beginning of a new...
Jelani Cobb and his Twitter buck dance
By Richard B. Muhammad - Editor Buck dancing: A type of folksy tap or soft-shoe dance common in the southern U.S. states during the slave era. Performers incorporated buck dancing into “cooning” shows, where a black person (or white person in blackface) would dance and sing for a white audience's enjoyment. (Urban Dictionary) Intellectual discourse is part of the Black tradition and...
Race-splaining, ‘problematic friends’ and Shaun King
By Richard B. Muhammad -Editor- As a writer, Shaun King is a racial explainer paid to decipher issues of bias, injustice and America's inescapable crisis tied to racism. While Mr. King is noted for his race-'splaining, reporting on racial wrongs and activism, he recently joined the “let's explain and condemn Farrakhan' chorus” caterwauling since February. At its root are Zionists slandering...
Redistribute the Pain
By Final Call News The most valuable dollars you will never spend ‘Tis almost the season to be jolly, especially corporations and merchants, but the laughter you are hearing doesn't note tidings of comfort and joy but product peddling profit seekers, who want to capitalize on your emotions and your insecurities. This Christmas don't let dollar hungry businesses lure you into a...
FCN Editorial The peril of an imperial presidency
FINALCALLNEWS October 22, 2002 If lines were not clear before Oct. 10, the congressional vote to give President Bush war-making powers against Iraq will further expose domestic and international divisions over how America should proceed. With the peace movement growing and the world still unconvinced, America’s democratically elected leaders bowed a bit lower to an imperial presidency. A presidency that apparently knows...
Hands off Ava Muhammad!
FINALCALL.COM In scripture and in history, those who stand against oppression and evil often find themselves falsely accused of wrongs committed by those who are actually guilty. This ugly, disturbing and unacceptable pattern played out recently at San Diego State University where Dr. Ava Muhammad, gifted spiritual teacher, author, radio personality, attorney and national spokesperson for the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan...
Sports, statements and racial reality
By Final Call Editor-In-ChiefRichard B. Muhammad The Black Twitterverse exploded and off-line discussions erupted when quotes from an interview with basketball great Kobe Bryant in The New Yorker magazine came out. The NBA All-Star was involved in an exchange with writer Ben McGrath that included Kobe's wonder at his success and his path from Italy, where his father played professional...
No justice for Terence, Stephon or Black America
FINALCALL.COM Once again legal decisions have come back and in the end, there is no justice for two unarmed Black men shot to death by police officers. The failures came at the federal level and at the local level. So Blacks cannot count on the federal government to protect their rights, nor can they count on local prosecutors to protect...
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'...