Perspectives
Dangerous, Black and under 11-years-old
By FinalCall.com News Boys will be boys and girls will be girls–except when it comes to Black children in America and research once again verifies that...
The Final Call: The First 35 Years
By Final Call Editor-In-ChiefRichard B. Muhammad Anniversaries mean something and can denote purpose, staying power, commitment, relevance or unrelenting determination to stay alive. This year...
We are Jordan Davis, but what are we going to do?
By Richard B. Muhammad Related story: Murdered over music? (FCN, 02-12-2014) (FinalCall.com) - The horrific thing about the failure of a jury to find Michael Dunn...
Lessons from Black History
By FinalCall.com News February is designated Black History Month and should be a time when we make a special effort, not the only effort, to...
A world enslaved
By FinalCall.com News Facts can be stubborn and troubling things: It is a fact that the gap between the super-rich and everyone else is growing. This...
When Hell freezes over …
By FinalCall.com News The proverbial phrase when “Hell Freezes Over” became a reality when Hell, Mich., some sixty miles from Detroit reached -4 degrees and...
A sign of troubling times?
By FinalCall.com News Just a couple weeks into the New Year comes an incident that raises concerns, questions and fears about what Black folks can expect...
Dishonoring Dr. King
By Richard B. Muhammad Black-oriented social media, blogs, TV and radio were ablaze over "Freedom 2 Twerk" and parties promoted to mark the Martin Luther King,...
Fighting a true War on Poverty
By FinalCall.com News It was 50 years ago in January that President Lyndon B. Johnson announced the time had come to wage a War on...
Saving ourselves: Training Black males for leadership
By Richard B. Muhammad The perils and plight of young Black men and obstacles to their success and very existence are not new stories. A...