Editorials
White Supremacy: America’s Original Sin
By Final Call News Many may feel comfortable condemning the Alt-Right, neo- Nazis, Klans-men and White Supremacists who gathered in Charlottesville, Va., but the true problem is America's underlying cancer of White Supremacy etched into the DNA of this nation. The torch carrying, swastika waving, black-shirted, Nazi saluting supporters of the Alt Right, who openly voice their disdain and hatred for...
Dark Days, Dark Deeds At The Southern Poverty Law Center?
FINALCALL.COM A major storm has brewed over the Southern Poverty Law Center with the recent resignation of its high-paid president and firing of its co-founder. Still troubling is how an “open secret” about organizational dysfunction, charges of racism, sexism and perhaps race-based hucksterism remained so and allowed the group to apparently run roughshod over the reputations of Black groups and...
Our Protecting Friend
FINALCALL.COM As a year and a decade closes, it is fitting to reflect on decisions made, work done and unfinished business ahead. For The Final Call newspaper, this time of year brings an additional somber recollection as 28 years ago, on December 26, 1991, our beloved editor-in-chief Abdul Wali Muhammad departed this life. In the life of institutions and nations, it is...
What about justice in America?
When President Biden met with Russian Vladimir Putin the subject of “misdeeds” by the former KBG agent were blasted in the American media. When Mr. Putin responded by questioning American respect for human rights and illegal actions on the world stage, the mainstream media started to howl. “Russian President Vladimir Putin displayed his ‘classic’ whataboutism play at the news conference...
Lessons from college: No rights Zionists are bound to respect
American colleges have a long history and tradition that is supposed to encourage debate, freedom of expression, development of political and social ideas and vehicles, such as protests, to express those ideas in a “democratic” society. That right is being crushed before our eyes. Jewish groups and individuals have strong-armed university officials into abusing students peacefully protesting genocide in Gaza and...
America’s salvation requires walking in the light of truth
Joe Biden has been declared the leader of the Democratic Party and exited its convention having delivered the best speech of his political life as part of his effort to gain the White House in 2020. The Democrats’ candidate for president emerged from his bunker in a Covid-19 stricken world speaking of light, national unity and battling for the soul...
A Black Liberation soldier needs help
By FinalCall.com News During the 1960s and 1970s one of the strongest voices for Black liberation and a new just world order was H. Rap Brown of the Black Panther Party and Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee. While jailed in 1971, he accepted Islam and became a stalwart Muslim leader and community leader committed to having a healthy and whole community in...
Hands off Marilyn J. Mosby!
By FinalCall.com News The decision by Baltimore's state's attorney to indict six police officers in the death of Freddie Gray, an unarmed 25-year-old Black man, brought a predictable barrage of criticism and howls of a rush to judgment. Next came false assertions that the prosecutor kowtowed to demands of protestors and bowed to fears the city could go up in...
Leadership You Can Disbelieve In
By Final Call News The presidential election for 2016 is unlike any in modern U.S. history and perhaps in the history of the United States as two widely unpopular, distrusted and polarizing candidates seek to lead the country. Neither seems particularly outfitted to handle such a role in a way that will bring America together and neither seems to have...
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...