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Covid-19 worsens debt collector harassment; new federal rule leaves room for state actions

By Charlene Crowell —Guest Columnist— As the final days of the 2020 election season drew to a close, major media across the nation focused on polls and prospects for the presidential candidates. At the same time, scant news coverage reported on a development affecting 68 million consumers: debt collection regulation. On Oct. 30, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau released its...

Back to War in Iraq

By FinalCall.com News The United States again engaged in military operations in Iraq as reports of the suffering of religious minorities and Shia Muslims came out of the fractured nation. This time the U.S. targets were the black flag flying “terrorists” known as ISIS, the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, which the Obama administration said had cornered innocents on...

The value of guidance in dark times

By Final Call News Whatever your spiritual or political persuasion, you could likely agree that these are dark times. Whether the issue is the level of violence, intractable poverty, confusion of leaders, sheer lack of morality and empathy or a type of manic, self-absorption that demands individual satisfaction no matter the cost, these are truly times that try the souls...

Eleven Fifty-Five – EAT TO LIVE, AND FAST TO LIVE EVEN LONGER

(FinalCall.com)--To those of us who are barely acquainted with the Holy Qur’an, if at all, fasting, that is, going without food, not eating faster, is a stranger with whom we are attempting, be it ever so slightly, to become acquainted. Some of us have eating habits which would make skipping lunch a painful ordeal, let alone...

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...

FEAR of TRUTH

To: Alan Dershowitz, FOX News Commentator From: Jackie Muhammad, Nation of Islam Research Group Re: Fear of Public Debate, Satan Never Accepts Truth As millions of Muslims, Christians and Jews from around the world tuned in to hear from the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan on July 4, praise and adulation  came from all corners of the earth from those tuned in to...

Kind words can’t save a troubled nation

A year after the Covid-19 pandemic struck, President Joe Biden delivered a prime time address from the White House and offered a much different tone than his predecessor, Donald Trump. Yet for all of Mr. Biden’s words and wishes, he still presides over a divided republic and, at times, his call for bipartisan legislative action is being used against...

Stop trying to link Farrakhan to your wicked murderers!

By Richard B. Muhammad, editor-in-chief In 1984, Jewish leaders upset by Nation of Islam Minister Louis Farrakhan's spirited and bold defense of the Rev. Jesse Jackson decided to launch an assault. The civil rights leader, who was running for president, had called for a balanced U.S. policy in the Middle East. Zionists condemned him and Jews ran ads declaring: “Ruin...

Surviving a shutdown is the least of America’s problems

By FinalCall.com News After a week long government shutdown, the democratic process and America's leaders were still stalled, bickering and unable to fully attend to the needs of the country.   Almost 900,000 federal workers were unable to go to work as Congress was unable to pass a funding bill and a small group hijacked the process, helped by Republican fears...

How usury enslaves economies worldwide

The Honorable Elijah Muhammad declared “What The Muslims Want” and “What The Muslims Believe” and placed it on the back page of the Muhammad Speaks Newspaper, and these words are now found on the back inside cover of The Final Call Newspaper.   One of the beliefs includes: “3. WE BELIEVE in the truth of the Bible, but we believe...