Perspectives
Being rich is bad for your health
By Richard B. Muhammad Wealth can be bad for your health. Having too much money can leave you unable to function in society–and can get you off when you kill and injure people while driving drunk. A Texas judge has decided 16-year-old Ethan Couch, who plowed into four pedestrians killing them after losing control of his father's Ford F-350 pickup, deserves...
Black America’s preeminent leader performs another miracle
By Richard B. Muhammad - Editor There is an old joke that goes if Jesus got out of a boat and walked on water, today's media headlines would read: “Jesus can't swim!” Deliberately deceptive and dangerous mis-characterizations of the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan of the Nation of Islam take the modern Jesus reference out of the realm of humor and into...
Words Of Peace Amid The Winds Of War?
By Final Call News President Trump delivered important words to the world and Saudi Arabia when he said that the United States was not in the oil-rich nation to tell others how to live. America has certainly forfeited any right to try to pass judgement on others given her human rights violations at home among her slaves, the children of her...
The sadness, sorrow and necessity of fighting a war on two fronts
By Final Call News Antwon Rose, Thana Muhammad and Lesandro Guzman-Ortiz never knew one another in life. But their tragic and painful deaths remind us that Black America must do something about violence plaguing our community. Antwon, 17, was shot while running away from a police officer in Pittsburgh. Sister Thana, 81, was murdered, dismembered in her home on the Far...
The test of time and divine ideas
By Richard B. Muhammad KINGSTON, Jamaica (FinalCall.com) - If time is the test of all men and all ideas, the Nation of Islam's highly successful 19th anniversary celebration of the Million Man March in Jamaica was further proof that there is something special about this movement that started nearly 85 years ago in Detroit. It was 40 years ago that Muhammad Ali,...
Remembering the Million Man March: Reflections on Memory and Mission
This is in remembrance, reflection and uncompromising reaffirmation of our people and their radically transformative struggle. There is so much damage done to memory and mission in our lives and to our sense of self by large and small concessions to the constant call to let go and move on regardless of what is lost or left behind. We sacrifice...
A mistrial in Baltimore must not equal a missed chance for justice
By Richard B. Muhammad - Editor In Baltimore a jury was unable to reach a verdict in the trial of Officer William Porter, who was charged with manslaughter, assault, reckless endangerment and misconduct in the death of Freddie Gray. That must not mean deserting the fight for justice for the 25-year-old Black man who died after a ride in a...
The blind and the seeing are not alike
By FinalCall.com News Word that 14-year-old Endia Martin was dead from a gunshot, a shot allegedly fired by another 14-year-old girl, was very painful. She was laid to rest on May 5 in a service that attracted grieving mourners, adults and children and even Chicago Bulls basketball star Derrick Rose, a product of the Windy City. The girl's funeral was held...
Guns and killings in America: Taking action during the holiday
The British are not coming back nor are the Russian's and Iranians coming; America needs to reconsider the 2nd Amendment of the United States Constitution that allows citizens the right to bear arms. In light of the tragic school massacre in Newtown, Conn., and the wider culture of violence gripping America today, the whole country is wondering...
Action, not apathy, brings victory
By Richard B. Muhammad What you do matters. It is typical today for people to say nothing can be done and to walk away from challenges. The feelings of powerlessness, apathy, or perhaps both are stronger than the desire to see a wrong made right or to press forward for a just cause. Thankfully activists, Muslims and advocates did not take that...