Charlene Muhammad and Richard Muhammad
Final Call Staffers

The life and legacy of a global music icon

LOS ANGELES - Across the world, millions of people celebrated Michael Jackson's life, legacy, from his contributions to music and culture to his humanitarian efforts with his sudden death.  While the mainstream media focused on eccentricities, Black America and fans worldwide celebrated his life and music—they danced in the streets of his hometown of Gary, Ind., and moon walked, his signature dance move, in the streets of London.  The flesh and its troubles have died, but, Michael Jackson Lives!” said the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan of the Nation of Islam. » FULL STORY

Final victory over race hatred elusive

By Askia Muhammad
Senior Correspondent | final Call

WASHINGTON - Since Nov. 4, 2008—the day Barack Obama was elected president of the United States, the day many proclaimed the first day of the new, “post racial” America—the “hounds of racism” have been on the prowl in this country, fanning the flames of hatred, violence, and even murder.


Complaints against New York City police rising

By Saeed Shabazz
Staff Writer | final Call

NEW YORK - The New York Civilian Liberties Union says civilian complaints against police officers have risen in the first half of 2009—up an alarming 11 percent over the same period last year. The number of officers under review for garnering too many complaints is up 50 percent over the last two years, according to the NYCLU.


Slavery apology resolution passes U.S. Senate

By Ashahed M. Muhammad
Assistant Editor | final Call

The U.S. Senate unanimously passed a resolution apologizing for slavery and the period of lynching, legalized racism, disenfranchisement and segregation that followed known as Jim Crow.


The life and legacy of a global music icon

By Charlene Muhammad and Richard Muhammad
Final Call Staffers | final Call

LOS ANGELES - Across the world, millions of people celebrated Michael Jackson's life, legacy, from his contributions to music and culture to his humanitarian efforts with his sudden death.  While the mainstream media focused on eccentricities, Black America and fans worldwide celebrated his life and music—they danced in the streets of his hometown of Gary, Ind., and moon walked, his signature dance move, in the streets of London.  The flesh and its troubles have died, but, Michael Jackson Lives!” said the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan of the Nation of Islam.


Final victory over race hatred elusive

By Askia Muhammad
Senior Correspondent | final Call

WASHINGTON - Since Nov. 4, 2008—the day Barack Obama was elected president of the United States, the day many proclaimed the first day of the new, “post racial” America—the “hounds of racism” have been on the prowl in this country, fanning the flames of hatred, violence, and even murder.


Complaints against New York City police rising

By Saeed Shabazz
Staff Writer | final Call

NEW YORK - The New York Civilian Liberties Union says civilian complaints against police officers have risen in the first half of 2009—up an alarming 11 percent over the same period last year. The number of officers under review for garnering too many complaints is up 50 percent over the last two years, according to the NYCLU.


Obama to Zimbabwe: A compliment, an insult and only $73 million

By Brian E. Muhammad | final Call

President Obama recently received a Zimbabwean delegation led by Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai at The White House. The meeting resulted in Pres. Obama complimenting the Prime Minister, criticizing Pres. Robert Mugabe and donating $73 million albeit “not to the government directly.”


Complications likely in U.S.-Iran relations

By Ali Gharib | final Call

WASHINGTON (IPS/GIN) - The results of the June 12 Iranian election, and the intentions that U.S. President Barack Obama's reserved responses conceal, remain uncertain. This alone is clear: Iran is at the threshold of an unknown period in its history.


Rural farmers key to African development

By Miriam Mannak | final Call

Attempts to “alleviate” poverty and hunger and boost African economies are futile, if the needs and potential of small-scale farmers in the region are ignored and the issue of trade barriers remains unaddressed.


Towns print money to help local merchants

By Matthew Cardinale
IFEJ | final Call

ATLANTA, (IPS/GIN) - In the face of an economic system in full crisis mode, a handful of communities across the U.S. and the globe have begun experimenting with alternative forms of local currency as a pathway to sustainability.


Pharmaceutical companies stand to make profit from ‘swine flu'

By Saeed Shabazz
Staff Writer | final Call

A Boston-based company, Emerging Portfolio Fund Research Global, Inc. (EPFR), a provider of fund flows and asset allocation data to financial institutions around the world, reported on May 1 that health-care and biotechnical companies recorded their first week of stock price increases since February.


The Employee Free Choice Act

By Ron Walters
-Guest Columnist- | final Call

One of the apparent mysteries many people ponder is how it was that union membership was responsible for virtually building the American middle class after World War II and now so many people appear to blame unions for the loss of jobs, rather than the push for more profits by company bosses? The answer is fear.


The Oneness of God

By the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan

I am a Muslim. That word “Muslim” only means one who believes in obeying Allah (God). Muslim is an Arabic word, so it's no wonder we don't know what it means. We are not Arabs but we are not Greeks either. So if you say you are a Christian, this only means that you are one with God through the example of Jesus Christ. » CONTINUE

Just A Few Good Men

By the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan

And as a Muslim, I love reading the Bible, because Prophet Muhammad, as I understand him, was well versed in the Torah, the Injil (Gospels), and the Qur'an. He was so wise and cosmopolitan in his view, because he wanted to bring Muslims and Christians and Jews, and the people of Zoroaster and Tao and others, into oneness. » CONTINUE

Unjust Judges Have Imbalanced Society

By the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan

The Honorable Elijah Muhammad said to us that justice is portrayed by a woman blindfolded, carrying a scale: Truth on one side; and the punishment according to truth, on the other side. When that scale is tipped, and people that are deprived of justice get none, it affects their state of mind. » CONTINUE

The Partnership Between The Black Church and The Black Press

By the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan

The Black Press has been the only one able, or willing, to tell our story. And if it were not for the Black Press, the story of what goes on in our day-to-day struggle for life in the Black community would not be told. » CONTINUE

Come Out of Her, My People

By the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan

I want to talk to you today, about that voice in the 18th chapter of Revelations, a voice from heaven saying, “Come out of her my people, that you be not partakers of her sins and her plagues, for her sins have reached unto heaven.” » CONTINUE

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