Final Call
By Brian E. Muhammad -Contributing Writer-

One year after election, Obama presidency under seige

A year ago, Americans cried, waved flags and embraced as a brilliant campaign made Barack Obama the 44th president of the United States and the first Black man to win the White House.  What a difference a year makes: The president is less popular, seems assaulted from nearly every side and still faces the problems of an ailing economy, a "jobless" recovery and two wars, with his partner in Afghanistan back in office because of a tainted election and a runner-up who refuses to stand for a political rerun. » FULL STORY

Funeral held for slain mosque leader, questions remain

By Ashahed M. Muhammad -Assistant Editor- | final Call

Muslims from across the United States converged at the Muslim Center in Detroit, Michigan, Oct. 31 for the Janazah prayer service and funeral for Imam Luqman Ameen Abdullah who was gunned down by FBI agents.


Alleged sexual assault creates victims on all sides

By Charlene Muhammad -Western Region Correspondent- | final Call

RICHMOND, Calif. - The family, friends, and community of a 15-year-old White girl who was allegedly gang-raped outside her homecoming dance at Richmond High School, were still grappling with how such a heinous act could occur and how to ensure that it doesn't happen again.


U.S. airport guard accused of Obama threat

By Victor Epstein -AP Writer- | final Call

NEWARK, New Jersey (AP) - A private security guard at Newark Liberty International Airport was arrested on charges of threatening Barack Obama the night before the president was to fly there.


One year after election, Obama presidency under seige

By Brian E. Muhammad -Contributing Writer- | final Call

A year ago, Americans cried, waved flags and embraced as a brilliant campaign made Barack Obama the 44th president of the United States and the first Black man to win the White House.  What a difference a year makes: The president is less popular, seems assaulted from nearly every side and still faces the problems of an ailing economy, a "jobless" recovery and two wars, with his partner in Afghanistan back in office because of a tainted election and a runner-up who refuses to stand for a political rerun.


Funeral held for slain mosque leader, questions remain

By Ashahed M. Muhammad -Assistant Editor- | final Call

Muslims from across the United States converged at the Muslim Center in Detroit, Michigan, Oct. 31 for the Janazah prayer service and funeral for Imam Luqman Ameen Abdullah who was gunned down by FBI agents.


Alleged sexual assault creates victims on all sides

By Charlene Muhammad -Western Region Correspondent- | final Call

RICHMOND, Calif. - The family, friends, and community of a 15-year-old White girl who was allegedly gang-raped outside her homecoming dance at Richmond High School, were still grappling with how such a heinous act could occur and how to ensure that it doesn't happen again.


Serious questions about politics in Sudan and North Africa

By Jehron Muhammad | final Call

President Obama's recently released Sudan strategy that tries to be all things to all people gives America and her interest groups needed instant gratification, but fails in addressing instability that a divided Sudan would engender and the possible destabilization of an entire region.


Study faults unregulated trade in human organs

By Thalif Deen | final Call

UNITED NATIONS (IPS/GIN) - A growing new market for human organs has prompted the United Nations and the Council of Europe to call for an international convention to regulate the sale of body parts, mostly kidneys and livers, in transplant surgery worldwide.


Scandals, fear and 2010 U.K. elections

By Charlene Muhammad -Staff Writer- | final Call

The major political parties made many promises during their recent annual conferences, including vows to curb crime and eradicate political corruption—but improving the state of Britain's economy is the number one concern for many Britons going into the national election in mid-2010.


What do Americans know about the recovery?

By Nisa Islam Muhammad -Staff Writer- | final Call

WASHINGTON - On a sunny afternoon at Union Station having commuters, tourists and students share their thoughts on the president's recovery program revealed some answers, but there were also plenty of questions.


Deep budget cuts push Californians to edge

By Rob Reynolds | final Call

FRESNO, California (IPS/GIN) - They call it Tortilla Flats—a haphazard cluster of tents and tarps sprawling across a sidewalk and a vacant lot smack in the middle of Fresno, a city of 500,000 in California's Central Valley.


Your tax dollars at work? Let's find that federal stimulus money

By Nisa Islam Muhammad -Staff Writer- | final Call

WASHINGTON (FinalCall.com) - While many government officials tout the availability of stimulus funds, for the average person, finding these dollars can be a journey through a maze of websites that can be frustrating.


The Gods at War: The Future is All About Y.O.U.t.h.

By The Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan

Wicked people are never pleased at hearing the truth, but we live at a time when there must be present in the world those who are willing to speak the truth regardless of whom or what, and suffer the necessary consequences of telling the truth at the time of the demise of this present world. » CONTINUE

Farrakhan challenges the hip hop community

By the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan

When you are a rapper and you understand your leadership role, you must understand that with leadership comes responsibility. You did not ask for it. It is imposed on you, but, you now have to accept responsibility that you have never accepted. » CONTINUE

Accepting Responsibility to Build Our Community

By the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan

Now the killings have increased in all the major cities of America and leading Black thinkers are now calling for the National Guard. Some people say, “Farrakhan you need to have another March.” No that is over, I will never go back to Washington like that ever again,  In fact, we do not have time. » CONTINUE

We must depend on Allah and ourselves

By the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan

Oftimes we have desires which, if fulfilled, would bring us great sorrow. However, if we are strong enough to desire only that which pleases Allah (God), then we can never suffer disappointment and grief over not fulfilling some cherished desires. » CONTINUE

No discipline, no love

By the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan

Children today are growing up in homes where there is no discipline because there are no rules. Children today do what they please and their parents, mothers in particular, allow this license not realizing that their unwillingness to train the children up in the way they should go will bring great pain to the parents in the future. » CONTINUE

Can the UN Avert the War of Armageddon?

By the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan

We are here to atone for violence, murder and war, and to call the kings and rulers of the earth to atonement for violence, murder and war; and to call the members of the human family, and our Black family, in particular, to the spirit and process of atonement for violence in the world and in our communities. » CONTINUE

The Nation of Islam Welcomes Muammar Gadhafi

By The Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan

It is a great honor and privilege for me, the Nation of Islam, and others to welcome Brother Leader Muammar al-Gadhafi, Leader of the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya and President of the African Union to his first visit to the United States of America to address the 64th Opening Session of the United Nations. » CONTINUE

What's Troubling America?

By the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan

America is turning her back on the weak and blaming the condition of the country on the poor, on the Black, on the Hispanic. In reality, the mismanagement of the wealth and people of this country is the fault of those who are at the top who have held power, who have manipulated the masses of the people against the good of America and the good of the world. » CONTINUE

America's enemy is Injustice

By the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan

The guarantee of freedom of speech is the beauty of American life—not speaking freely and stupidly, but speaking freely and responsibly.  We have taken this anti-murder, anti-war stance, not because we wish to be popular and not because we need to be unpopular, but because we desire the United States to be right. » CONTINUE

BLACKMAN: Do for Self or Suffer the Consequences

By the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan

According to economists, Black buying power reached over $900 billion in 2008. If we took the aggregate income of Black people, some scholars submit that we would be the ninth richest country in the world. » CONTINUE

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