Editorials
Defending Farrakhan In 2016
By Richard B. Muhammad - Editor In any situation, there comes a time when enough is enough and that time has come for those who malign and attempt to smear the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan. Some of the latest slime was thrown by columnist Mary Mitchell of the Chicago Sun-Times, who took great umbrage at the fact that Min. Farrakhan said the...
No ‘Mistress’ Of Monticello
By Final Call News The July announcement that the “living quarters” for Sally Hemings at Thomas Jefferson's Monticello plantation had been uncovered and were under restoration brought efforts to cover the Declaration of Independence author's horrible history. Before being dragged on Black Twitter and elsewhere, early articles referred to slave Hemings as the slave holder's “mistress.” She wasn't a mistress. She...
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 troubled America’no peace
FINALCALL.COM It doesn't take much to see how deeply troubled America is, just open your eyes. For the fourth time in U.S. history an American president is facing impeachment–and he seems oblivious to or unworried about ripping the country apart. With words like “losers,” “traitors,” and “treason” punctuating conversations, nothing good for America can be happening. We are seeing an arrogant...
The Savage America: No Peace
“And the winepress was trodden without the city, and blood came out of the winepress, even unto the horse bridles, by the space of a thousand and six hundred furlongs.” Revelation, Chapter 14, Verse 20, King James Version Where will the next instance of mass killing happen in America? That question haunts the United States as almost daily somewhere in this country,...
Atrocities, murder, and no end to genocide in Gaza
News of famine and loss of life in Gaza should not surprise us as Israelis continue their deadly assault on Palestinians or anyone within the Zionist state’s kill zone. The murder of World Central Kitchen humanitarian workers struck down by Israeli Defense Force missiles have again brought words of “sorrow” and calls for investigation. There was presidential outrage in the White...
Lessons from Nick Cannon’s Class
Naba’a Muhammad It’s been a little while since celebrity Nick Cannon sat down with Rabbi Abraham Cooper of the Los Angeles-based Weinstein Center for a dialogue following controversy after “The Masked Singer” host was excoriated for an interview with Professor Griff of Public Enemy. Nick was accused of being anti-Semitic and insulting Jewish people, threatened with cancellation for the interview and...
The blind and the seeing are not alike
By FinalCall.com News Word that 14-year-old Endia Martin was dead from a gunshot, a shot allegedly fired by another 14-year-old girl, was very painful. She was laid to rest on May 5 in a service that attracted grieving mourners, adults and children and even Chicago Bulls basketball star Derrick Rose, a product of the Windy City. The girl's funeral was held...
Lies, damn lies and media lies
By FinalCall.com News The bloodied face of Martese Johnson, a 20-year-old student at the University of Virginia, looked like a throwback to the 1960s as he lay down on a sidewalk surrounded by White officers. But it wasn't 1960 it was 2015 and the systems of White supremacy quickly went to work. The media spewed the account of police...
Independence Day for the Black Man and Woman
By Final Call News The Independence Day celebrations are over. The barbeques are done. The flags are put away. America has marked another year of her sovereignty and her break with Great Britain to chart her own course. When she broke away 240 years ago, she was an upstart and a rebel against one of the greatest powers in the...