The Final Call Online, 07-04-2000

July 04, 2000
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Execution of Shaka Sankofa (Gary Graham) galvanizes opposition to death penalty

HOUSTON�As Lenora Graham and supporters prepared to bury her son, it appears certain that the execution of a Texas death row inmate born Gary Graham who died having taken the African name Shaka Sankofa has forever left its imprint on the state of Texas and the world.

Black lawmakers split over Black farmer's plight
WASHINGTON�In the short space of one week, what started as an effort by Congressional Black Caucus members to assist Black farmers in their on-going battle for fair treatment from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), has turned into an angry finger-pointing exercise among CBC members and the only Black Republican House member, with the farmers stuck in the middle.

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Castro predicts smooth succession in Cuba

HAVANA (IPS)�Fidel Castro, who turns 74 on Aug. 13, has spent more than 40 years governing Cuba and still works virtually around the clock, has said he expects a smooth handover of power when the time comes for him to step down.

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Final Call News (FCN): How did you become Brother Shaka Sankofa�s spiritual advisor?

Min. Robert Muhammad (RM): In 1993 the case gained notoriety because his new lawyers found the evidence that always existed that would have exonerated him for the murder of Bobby Lambert. At that time he began compiling a list of people in the community that he respected and that he wanted to help work on his case to expose not only his case but the whole death penalty or capital punishment system.

The Awakening of Sleeping Beauty--
The Golden Age of the New Cultural Revolution Begins
by Tynetta Muhammad

Shaka Sankofa's last words

I would like to say that I did not kill Bobby Lambert, that I�m an innocent Black man that is being murdered. This is a lynching that is happening in America tonight. There�s overwhelming and compelling evidence of my defense that has never been heard in any court of America.

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World Web News

OAU Sees Sino-Afro Forum As New Vista For Co-operation -PANA

ETHIOPIA-ERITREA: UN welcomes new agreement and is "on standby" - IRIN

Setting the rules of the game with E-Books
by Guest Maxine E. Thompson

When the first washer machines and dryers came out, people who hung their clothes on the clothesline swore they would never switch. However, many of these same people are the ones who, once they got their money together, began putting down people who still hang their clothes on the clothesline. I see a similar trend with the advent of e-book publishing.

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FCN EDITORIAL
Get up, get out and do something

Confusion of People
by the Hon. Elijah Muhammad

ELEVEN FIFTY-FIVE
by Abdul Allah Muhammad
OUR FATHER

CBS, Mike Wallace and Spin II
by Cedric Muhammad

'60 Minutes' trap wont' catch Min. Farrakhan
by Jabril Muhammad

Why I resigned from Buchanan 2000
by Dr. Lenora Fulani

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