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A voice for Black America passes

By Richard B. Muhammad - Editor The passing of George E. Curry, a great defender and supporter of the Black Press and an important editor and journalist, was sudden and difficult for me to hear. I had known Mr. Curry, as I usually called him, for some years. I took a trip with him to Algeria and Western Sahara in North...

Jelani Cobb and his Twitter buck dance

By Richard B. Muhammad - Editor Buck dancing: A type of folksy tap or soft-shoe dance common in the southern U.S. states during the slave era. Performers incorporated buck dancing into “cooning” shows, where a black person (or white person in blackface) would dance and sing for a white audience's enjoyment. (Urban Dictionary) Intellectual discourse is part of the Black tradition and...

No justice for Terence, Stephon or Black America

FINALCALL.COM Once again legal decisions have come back and in the end, there is no justice for two unarmed Black men shot to death by police officers. The failures came at the federal level and at the local level. So Blacks cannot count on the federal government to protect their rights, nor can they count on local prosecutors to protect...

Goin’ in Circles: Breaking the Vicious Cycle of Black on Black Violence

, Guest Columnist “Round and round and around we go, where the world's headed nobody knows.” Ball of Confusion-The Temptations It has been a bloody 2019 so far in my city of Durham, North Carolina. Almost every day, a shooting has occurred that has left someone's son or daughter lying on the sidewalk in a pool of blood. The majority...

To: Mitch McConnell, Senate Minority Leader From: Jackie Muhammad,Member of The Nation of Islam Research Team

Re: Your Attack on the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan Date: April 21, 2010 On April 13 you went on the Senate floor ostensibly to pay tribute to Officer Billy Evans, a policeman who gave his life protecting federal lawmakers and visitors to Capitol Hill. Instead, you used such a solemn occasion to attempt to degrade the character of one of the...

Follow The COVID Money Trail And Where It Leads

NOI Research Group What do you have when the desire of the elite to get richer combines with the desire of Satan to depopulate the world? The accepted narrative of the source and spread of COVID-19 is that at the end of December 2019, the novel severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) causing serious pneumonia was identified in Wuhan, Hubei...

Broken Promises in a Troubled Land

President Barack Obama’s new book, “A Promised Land,” is a best seller and has drawn a variety of responses as the former leader of the free world shared his thoughts about time in office and America’s future. Fareed Zakaria, political commentator and host of a CNN Sunday morning talk show, made some interesting observations about the Obama book during a...

Old enemies posing as false friends: Have you had enough?

“The White race has never shown true friendship to us. When they are planning to do evil against us, they offer us a false show of friendship.” —“Friendship of Allah (God),” the Most Honorable Elijah Muhammad, Our Saviour Has Arrived. What’s worse than an old enemy posing as a false friend? One duped into believing, or willingly engaged in self-delusion to...

The Way to Peace and Contentment of Mind

Almost daily comes video, statistics, tears, and tragedy depicting harrowing conditions Black people face in the United States. Political leaders seem weak, failing and unable to honestly meet questions and problems of race and reality head on. The American president views everything through a narcissistic kaleidoscope devoid of national interest. Everything is tied to his personal popularity or personal political fortune....

Who is poisoning the ‘Homeland’?

Guest Columnist "This is a hoax. This is a hoax," warned Senator Robert Byrd (R-WVa.) in debates over the Homeland Security Bill of 2002. The Senate was given a 484-page document and was required to vote on it in 48 hours without committee scrutiny or public hearings. Why? What is President "Pharaoh" Bush trying to sneak over on the...