Perspectives
We must depend on Allah God in 2025
As we enter the New Year, it is wise to consider the previous year and lessons to be learned. The New Year can also bring up new vision and inspiration about what we would like to accomplish in 2025 as we seek to make progress and do better. Black America in 2024 faced again serious challenges and were haunted by...
Life, Legacy and Longevity
Remembering Abdul Wali Muhammad “Jesus said, ‘Let him that would be great among you, let him be your servant.’ You cannot serve if you think you are greater than that which you are called to serve. To be a servant means you must see those whom you are called to serve as greater than yourself.” The Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan, speaking...
Syria, America, Israel and a dangerous time
With what is described as the sudden fall of Bashar al-Assad’s regime in Syria, Israel unleashed hundreds of air strikes on its neighbor. America joined the bombing frenzy, saying she wanted to destroy ISIS forces that are among different groups involved in a long, bloody civil war. Fourteen years of conflict have killed more than 350,000 Syrians, displaced millions and...
A tribute to the princess of Black poetry: Nikki Giovanni
by Dr. Khalilah T. Muhammad Poet. Activist. Artist. Scholar. Educator. Teacher. Female. Black. Black Feeling Black Talk. The Princess of Black Poetry. It gives me great pleasure to take time, to stop my academic routine of ending this fall semester of teaching, grading, reading and writing, to reflect on the legacy of Nikki Giovanni. As the Honorable Elijah Muhammad is quoted...
America’s dilemma and a gentle word for pharaoh
Go thou and thy brother with My messages and do not be remiss in remembering Me.Go both of you to Pharaoh, surely he is inordinate;Then speak to him a gentle word, haply he may mind or fear.—Holy Qur’an, Chapter 20, Verses 42-44, Maulana Muhammad Ali translation Watching what is happening inside America, as the nation unravels before our eyes, clearly...
Tobacco and vaping are destroying generations with each puff by Shawntell Muhammad | Contributing Writer
“The government condemns smoking, but still permits tobacco to be sold to the public. All of this is due to commercializing on that which produces a short life.” —The Most Honorable Elijah Muhammad, How to Eat to Live, Book 2, page 22 Tobacco use, cigarettes and e-cigarettes (vaping), in particular, are on a steady incline amongst the disenfranchised American...
Can Israel’s ceasefire with Lebanon hold? History says, ‘no’
Israel and America have proudly announced a ceasefire between Lebanon and the Zionist state. It’s not like any ceasefire you would see anywhere else. While a ceasefire typically holds two sides accountable for violations of the agreement, President Biden, Israel’s weapons supplier and diplomatic benefactor during its genocidal operations, clearly said any so-called violation of the agreement would give Israel...
‘Tis the season: Stress, debt, sadness and strikes
Now that Black Friday has come and gone, big business is pushing a spending frenzy for end-of-year profits. With fewer than 26 days ’til Xmas, the race is on to swindle consumers out of precious dollars. The big push is coming via ads everywhere you can see or hear them, whether traditional media, billboards, social and new media or direct...
What was behind the death of the first African Nobel Peace Prize winner?
Many believe Albert Luthuli was silenced because he was using a global platform to highlight the horrors of Apartheid by Kubendran Chetty - RT.com Chief Albert Luthuli, renowned anti-Apartheid activist and Africa’s first Nobel Peace Prize laureate, died in 1967 after being struck by a train. His death was ruled accidental, but in May this year, 57 years later, South Africa’s...
A measure of justice two decades after U.S. torture
The horrors of Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq were first exposed by 60 Minutes in 2004. Images surfaced of Iraqi males tortured, abused, dead and even their corpses violated. Naked bodies of men piled on one another, one Iraqi tied to a leash, terrified prisoners menaced by vicious dogs, prisoners degraded, beaten, sexually assaulted, their rights and manhood violated as...