Perspectives
Being rich is bad for your health
By Richard B. Muhammad Wealth can be bad for your health. Having too much money can leave you unable to function in society–and can get you off when you kill and injure people while driving drunk. A Texas judge has decided 16-year-old Ethan Couch, who plowed into four pedestrians killing them after losing control of his father's Ford F-350 pickup, deserves...
A step toward justice, but much more is required
Exoneration sounds like a mighty fine word. It rings in the ear as if all wrongs have been righted. But we should not be fooled by the so-called “exoneration” of two men jailed, maligned, hated for a murder they did not commit. Cyrus Vance, Jr., and others inside of the same system that perpetuated this fraud and destruction of Black...
Coming all the way home
In studying the history of Black land ownership, I became fascinated with the 45-year period after slavery when Black people amassed over 16 million acres of land. Most of the land was in what is called the “Black Belt.” Nearly 30 percent of the farm land in Virginia, North Carolina, Florida and Arkansas were owned by Blacks in 1910....
Black Love Is Rebellion
by Jasmine Gates —Guest Columnist— Have we considered love? It’s a question that should come to mind when the topic of Black Rebellion is being discussed. Do we understand the power of love is not just how it feels, but the impact it leaves because of its ability to shift a thing like a curse that plagues an entire lineage? Do we...
Leave Erykah Badu alone!
By Richard B. Muhammad - Editor Erykah Badu, a special artist and free thinker, was hit with the Farrakhan Litmus Test during a recent interview with Vulture.com. First of all the publication has the proper name as vultures feast on dead things. Like the winged scavengers that feed on death, this interview attempted to pick the singer's bones. Perhaps we should begin...
Neil Steinberg: The New Yellow Journalist?
-Guest Columnist- (FinalCall.com) - Neil Steinberg recently wrote an article for the Chicago Sun-Times asking, “So where has Farrakhan led his Nation?” Indeed, Steinberg wrote this article in the true tradition of “yellow journalism.” By definition “yellow journalism,” or the yellow press, is a type of journalism that presents little or no legitimate or well-researched news and instead...
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...
Rejection of the Covid-19 vaccine growing inside of America
“This has never been a country of the people, by the people or for the people. This is a country that never was made with a woman in mind. Therefore, they had to suffer years before they could even earn the right to vote. This country was not made for the slave because they only fashioned us as three-fifths...
VOTING: Not the sole solution for Black America, so how do we get what we want?
The question of the day is what do Black people want and how do we get it? It is safe to say that most in the Black electorate want to live in communities that are economically strong. We want safe neighborhoods free of violent crime. We want a healthy relationship with police that does not involve racial profiling and...
Is Alicia Keys In Tune With The Conspiracy?
Alicia Keys recently alluded to the government’s involvement in “Gangster Rap” and the deaths of Biggie and Tupac. Some so-called Black people started talking about how ridiculous it was for Alicia Keys to be thinking. “She needs to shut up and just sing and play the piano.” No, what needs to happen is you need to “open up”...