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You are what you eat – you cannibal!

It seems flesh-eaters have lost another round in the fight for survival. Usually, long after having given up the eating of animals which tread the same ground and breathe the same air as we do, many so-called "vegetarians" continue to nibble on those species of fish considered "safer" and "cleaner" than all the rest. Probably, none...

America’s ground is cracking

-Guest Columnist- More than 60 percent of the United States now has abnormally dry or drought conditions, stretching from Georgia to Arizona and across the north through the Dakotas, Minnesota, Montana and Wisconsin, according to Mark Svoboda, a climatologist for the National Drought Mitigation Center at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln. An area stretching from south central North Dakota...

The wealthiest Blacks in the world

WILLIAM.REED Collectively Black Americans are the richest blacks in the world. But, only two Black Americans can claim a nine-figure income. Times are changing and Black Africans are making more money than Black Americans and have made it onto Forbes' list of the world's wealthiest billionaires. At the top of Forbes' list, Warren Buffett's $62 billion ranks him as the world's...

Willie Lynch Speech: The Making of a Slave

This speech was said to have been delivered by Willie Lynch on the bank of the James River in the colony of Virginia in 1712.  Lynch was a British slave owner in the West Indies. He was invited to the colony of Virginia in 1712 to teach his methods to slave owners there. Willie Lynch Speech: The Making of a Slave Greetings, Gentlemen. I greet...

Media misreporting and Libya’s support for Africa

(FinalCall.com) - To show the absurdity of recent events concerning Libya, consider Senator John McCain's 2009 visit to Libya to meet with Col. Muammar Gadhafi under his Bedouin tent. The Arizona Republican praised Gadhafi for his “wisdom and strategic vision to talk issues of concern to the world and … to sustain peace and stability in Africa.” Western corporate...

B’nai B’rith’s ADL: 100 Years of Deception: Leo Frank, Abe Foxman, & Minister Farrakhan

By Tingba Muhammad, NOI Research Group (FinalCall.com) - This year the Anti-Defamation League of B’nai B’rith (ADL) celebrates 100 years of open hatred and bigotry against the freedom aims of Black people. It is an organization whose foundation and history are as racist and malevolent as any secret society, and it has proved itself to be dedicated to maintaining white...

New possibility for a New Year?

By FinalCall.com News It's the time of year where resolutions and declarations are made and the promise of change comes to the forefront of minds and lips. Many shun New Year's resolutions and reject attaching much importance to linking change to change in the Gregorian calendar. But taking a look at oneself and one's life and deciding what things need to...

Back to War in Iraq

By FinalCall.com News The United States again engaged in military operations in Iraq as reports of the suffering of religious minorities and Shia Muslims came out of the fractured nation. This time the U.S. targets were the black flag flying “terrorists” known as ISIS, the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, which the Obama administration said had cornered innocents on...

Running from the law or the lawless?

By FinalCall.com News The head of the Baltimore Police Department has admitted some clear violations in the handling of 25-year-old Freddie Gray, who ended up with a severed spine, and whose death has focused national and international attention on a town that once dubbed itself “Charm City.” Speaking April 24 at a Friday afternoon press conference, Police Commissioner Anthony Batts and...

Stop Hiding Behind Lies’A Challenge To The ADL

By Richard B. Muhammad - Editor Jonathan Greenblatt, the national director and CEO of the Anti-Defamation League, has started his new tenure playing the ADL's old, tired track falsely painting the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan as a bigot and an anti-Semite. Despite an admirable, well-reasoned argument and appeal for dialogue from hip hop guru Russell Simmons, who has worked with Jewish...