Perspectives
West Coast drives Millions More Movement platforms
Millions More Movement Online LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA The Millions More Movement 10 Issues platform is escalating throughout the Nation of Islam’s (NOI) Western Region, specifically highlighting unity between street organizations (“gangs”), an end to police brutality, and the injustices surrounding the Prison Industrial Complex. In their quest for peace, The Inglewood Neighborhood Piru street organization called on NOI Western...
The Sun in your Garden
In our previous article we introduced you to the meanings of “garden” and “cultivate.” This article will get you started in developing your own home or community garden. Let us first go back over those definitions: A “garden” is a “plot of ground where herbs, fruits, flowers, or vegetables are cultivated,” and “cultivate” means “to prepare or prepare...
Paradise is a Garden
What is “paradise” and what is a “garden”? According to Webster’s Dictionary, “paradise” is “The Garden of Eden.” Therefore, when we say “paradise is a garden,” we are 100 percent correct according to the meaning of the words. “Garden,” according to Webster, is a “plot of aground where herbs, fruits, flowers, or vegetables are cultivated.” “Cultivate” means “to prepare...
Are You Living in the Light?
WASHINGTON, D.C. (FinalCall.com) - “Are you living in the light?” That is the question Muslim Girls Training and General Civilization Class (M.G.T. & G.C.C.) Mid-Atlantic Regional Captain Saadiqa Muhammad is asking the women and girls of the nation, and she is inviting them to explore the answer at the Mid-Atlantic and Eastern regions’ annual women’s conference May 24-26,...
Enabling Don Imus
By Richard Muhammad-Guest Columnist- Incident is merely the latest in a string of racial slurs (Media Matters, 04-06-2007)Black women ‘dogged’ by MTV (FCN, 09-06-2006)Being A Black Woman In The World by Winnie Mandela (FCN, 04-18-2006)Palestinians called 'Stinking Animals' on MSNBC's 'Imus' (CAIR, 11-18-2004)Spelman students cancel rapper’s charity event (FCN, 04-19-2004)Media images of Black women: From soft porn to the invisible soldier (FCN,...
State of the union: Trapped
By Ron Walters-Guest Columnist- The stage was set for the State of the Union speech by a president who had one of the lowest ratings in modern history. You have to go back to Richard Nixon's 1974 speech during the Watergate scandal to find an equivalent and as a result, Pres. Bush's speech was just as unconvincing. As a parallel,...
The political economy of victory in Iraq
By Ron Walters-Guest Columnist- The concept of victory that George Bush is pursuing in Iraq, is fallacious for a number of reasons that I could spell out, but I want to concentrate here on just one, the economic cost. The rate spending for the Iraq War has now exceeded that of Vietnam, which is $8 billion per month, and it...
Rep. Keith Ellison: Confronting challenges of race and religion
By Ron Walters-Guest Columnist- FCN Editorial - First Muslim member of U.S. Congress (FCN, 01-06-2007) This session of Congress begins the career of Attorney Keith Ellison of Minneapolis, an African American who is also the first Muslim elected to the Congress, at a time when the U.S. is at war in the most Islamic region in the world. Yet, receiving...
White supremacy mental disorder
The recent case of five police officers killing 23-year-old Sean Bell and injuring two of hisfriends should make it obvious that Blacks continue to be at-risk to die by the hands of police. Sean Bell was killed on his wedding day in a barrage of police gunfire as he left his bachelor party. Despite three civilian witnesses, who say they...
Nation of Islam in Paris, France
From Paris with Love:A one on one with Thierry Muhammad Paris, France (FinalCall.com) - It's the city where Black notables such as abolitionist Frederick Douglass, scholar and activist W.E.B. DuBois; painter Henry O. Tanner; America's first Black novelist William Wells Brown; singer and dancer Josephine Baker; photojournalist Gordon Parks; writers Richard Wright and James Baldwin, found a warm refuge...