Perspectives
America Needs Barack Obama Now
By Ron Walters-Guest Columnist- Previous perspectives by Dr. Ron Walters This is not an endorsement, it is an analysis. At the end of the three presidential debates featuring Sen, Barack Obama and Sen. John McCain, the judgment of the American people was that Sen. Obama had won all three. Thinking about it, I must admit that I missed the...
Reparations, the Tea Party and America’s Founding Fathers
(FinalCall.com) - “Trouble Brewing” was the title of an October 30 article by Edward Luce published in the Financial Times newspaper. Essentially the article was about how some Americans fear that the United States is in mortal danger, and places the blame squarely on the doorstep of President Barack Obama, the nation's first Black president. In the first...
Bill (Bubba) Clinton’s True Legacy
-Guest Columnist- Clinton and the rise and consequences of black incarceration Aspiring to keep a 1992 campaign promise to shrink the size of government, while simultaneously incarcerating more individuals for longer sentences a part of a get tough on crime policy, President Bill Clinton contracted out to private prisons. This accounting “sleight of hand,” according to a 1995 New...
Black and Blue Friday:Seasonal madness begins
By FinalCall.com News 'Tis the season for bullets and bruises as Black Friday ushered in a spending frenzy and its brother, widespread fighting and violence. Seeking to get their piece of an estimated $600 billion expected to be spent between now and Dec. 25, retailers opened their doors on Thanksgiving Day and tried to lure customers into their business lairs. Once...
Protests, prayers and continued support for Imam Jamil Al-Amin
By FinalCall.com News Efforts to bring some relief and care to Imam Jamil Al-Amin picked up with a protest outside of the Justice Department planned for June 9. Supporters of the longtime freedom fighter and respected Muslim leader remain concerned about his health and a lack of medical attention given by prison authorities. Formerly known as H. Rap Brown of the...
Economics and progress in Black History Month
By FinalCall.com News Each February there are celebrations, assignments, contests and even deals and promotions as Black History Month comes in. And while we look back at historical figures, enjoy recitations of speeches and dressing up to act out historic events and personalities, perhaps in 2015, this month can be devoted to looking forward. It's time we not only examine...
Santa’s Walmart Elves Stole Your Job
According to Senator Bernie Sanders, “One family, the Walton family of Walmart, owns more wealth than the bottom 40 percent of Americans.” Walmart Stores, Inc., is the nation's (and the world's) largest commercial employer and one of America's most profitable companies, netting $15.7 billion in profits in 2011 from $419 billion in annual global sales. For the fiscal year ended...
9/11 Trumps The Constitution: Getting To The Root Of World Terrorism
The post-9/11 passage of the so-called Patriot Act trashed protections in the U.S. Constitution and encouraged and fortified the hatred that is now emerging–all because the real 9/11 culprits have been allowed, unchallenged, to scapegoat an innocent people. We are strip-searched at our airports and forced to smile about it. We are followed around and monitored, with surveillance cameras everywhere. Every stroke...
Time to join movement for power in Chicago?
By Final Call News Father Michael Pfleger of St. Sabina Church in Chicago drew national news and set the city abuzz with chatter after a Saturday shutdown of a major South Side expressway. Unless you want people dying as a result of getting struck by cars, the authorities absolutely had to get involved because protestors walking on a highway is a...
Eid Mubarak and celebrating the close of the blessed month of Ramadan
FINALCALL.COM Eid Mubarak! was the greeting shared by nearly two billion Muslims worldwide as Ramadan, the Islamic month of fasting and prayer came to an end. Around the globe, Muslims celebrated the end of the important month, which commemorates the revelation of the Holy Qur'an to the Prophet Muhammad, peace be upon him, and represents our commitment to obedience to the...