Perspectives
Haiti represents more than chronic poverty
By George Curry-Guest Columnist- MILOT, Haiti - When Ron Daniels invited me to join his recent Haiti Support Project's pilgrimage to the cities of Milot, Cap-Haitien and Port-au-Prince, I had mixed feelings. I have traveled around the world, but my trips to the Pyramids in Egypt and the Door of No Return on Goree Island in Senegal were the most...
Take another look at the ‘Save Darfur’ crowd
Darfur, Sudan: Seeking the Truth (WEBCAST: Minister Louis Farrakhan, 05-07-2006) Anyone who tells you that “genocide” is occurring in Darfur and doesn’t in the same breath say that the same, or worse, serious situation is occurring in Uganda, the Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of the Congo and Occupied Palestine, is engaged in deception about the subject. Under the guise...
Israel: No Friend of Obama
Why should the Israelis expect any sane and rational human being to believe that their barbaric attack on Gaza and the indiscriminate slaughter of defenseless and helpless civilians including men, women, the elderly, and children can be justified? Why did not the Israelis wait until a new president, who is about to take office on a platform of...
The Planned Demise of the Black Farmer by the U.S. Government
FinalCall.com News Focus: Food, Farming & Black Survival The Honorable Elijah Muhammad wrote on page 38 of Message to the Black Man: “All of this is part of the clever plan to discourage my people from wanting to own producing land for themselves and to cause a great dislike within them for having anything to do with tilling, cultivating, extracting and...
Thoughts on Martin Luther King’s legacy and today’s obstacles to full freedom
ERICTOUREM Winning battles and losing a war? ATLANTA (FinalCall.com) - January 15 marked the 86th birthday of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and this August will make 50 years since the 1963 March on Washington, D.C. On that day, more than 250,000 people converged on the nation's Capital in a call for lawmakers to end Jim Crow laws, economic injustice...
Mis-defining Madiba
By Richard B. Muhammad Nelson Mandela, the beloved freedom fighter, onetime political prisoner and president of South Africa, has departed this life. We thank Allah (God) for his life, his yet unfinished work and our challenge is to complete his task. Part of completing that task lies in understanding the man, the mission, challenges he faced–and challenges his beloved South...
Pimpin` ain’t easy, it’s devastating
By Richard B. Muhammad Since the 1960s and 1970s in what would today be called urban novels and movies, the persona of the pimp was presented as a model for Black males in the ghetto. From Max Julian in the 1973 movie “The Mack” to the Brent Owens 1998 HBO “documentary” “Pimps Up, Hoes Down” the mystique has continued. Pimps and...
The death of Eric Garner and a granddaughter’s right to know
By Richard B. Muhammad (FinalCall.com) - The chilling death of Eric Garner, captured on videotape with his plaintive 11 cries of “I can't breathe” stoked anger, outrage and deep, deep pain. Now that a secret grand jury has failed to indict police officers in the chokehold death, a New York judge is weighing whether the secret proceeding should be made public....
No justice for Tamir Rice, no faith in the system
By Final Call News With the decision not to indict officers in the killing of Tamir Rice in Cleveland Black people once again come face to face with what happens when you “respect the process” and “reserve judgment:” Nothing. Over a year after the 12-year-old was shot to death in a park after playing with a toy gun, Cuyahoga County Prosecutor...
A Mouthpiece For A Menace Speaks
By Final Call News Ari Fleischer, via his @AriFleischer Twitter account in early March, retweeted a short video from the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan's account. “This man is a menace. Maybe his account was hacked,” Mr. Fleischer declared. The Minister had delved into the great insult taken after an interview President Trump had with Bill O' Reilly of Fox News, who...