Final Call
By Ashahed M. Muhammad -Assistant Editor-

Farrakhan: Seek peace or face destruction

Nation of Islam Minister delivers powerful message, warning in Indianapolis: Give peace with Iran chance and avoid war that opens way to America's destruction.

INDIANAPOLIS - Looking and sounding strong while standing and speaking for two and a half hours, the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan delivered a powerful and passionate message with warnings to President Barack Obama, his opponents, the U.S. government and a recalcitrant and troublesome Zionist element within the Jewish community.

Welcomed to the Indianapolis Convention Center podium with a standing ovation from a crowd of nearly 5,000 people, Min. Farrakhan showed the world he is recovering well from an early October heart attack and subsequent bacterial infection.

The health issues caused the Minister to cancel speaking engagements over the past month, including a keynote address at the Holy Day of Atonement gathering in Tuskegee, Ala., to commemorate the 18th anniversary of the Million Man March. » FULL STORY

Statement from the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan on the passing of 'Madiba,' the Honorable Nelson Mandela

By FinalCall.com News

CHICAGO - The Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan, national representative of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad and the Nation of Islam, issued the following statement today on the passing of Mr. Nelson Mandela, the former political prisoner, president of South Africa, leader of the anti-apartheid struggle and African National Congress.


Honoring Nelson Mandela

By FinalCall.com News

Nelson Mandela is one of the towering figures of our time: A leader in South Africa’s freedom struggle who was banned for his activity, jailed for 27 years for his politics and a man who gained worldwide acclaim.


Love for the man, love for the message

By Ashahed M. Muhammad -Assistant Editor-

INDIANAPOLIS - Nearly 5,000 people gathered at the Indianapolis Convention Center, many traveling hours to see Minister Louis Farrakhan's first public message in over a month since health challenges caused him to cancel several appearances, including a previous planned date in Indianapolis.


A culture of hate at San Jose State?

By Jamo Muhammad and Charlene Muhammad

SAN JOSE, Calif. - A diverse coalition of student organizations held a silent march and protest over alleged racist bullying of a Black 17-year-old San Jose State University student by his four White dorm mates.


Calling Black men to build community

By FinalCall.com News

CHICAGO - Reciting a litany of abuses inflicted from outside of the community and self-destructive acts committed on one another, the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan called for Black men to stop the violence, acquire knowledge and take their place as community builders and not destroyers.


Statement from the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan on the passing of 'Madiba,' the Honorable Nelson Mandela

By FinalCall.com News

CHICAGO - The Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan, national representative of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad and the Nation of Islam, issued the following statement today on the passing of Mr. Nelson Mandela, the former political prisoner, president of South Africa, leader of the anti-apartheid struggle and African National Congress.


Farrakhan: Seek peace or face destruction

By Ashahed M. Muhammad -Assistant Editor-

Nation of Islam Minister delivers powerful message, warning in Indianapolis: Give peace with Iran chance and avoid war that opens way to America's destruction.

INDIANAPOLIS - Looking and sounding strong while standing and speaking for two and a half hours, the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan delivered a powerful and passionate message with warnings to President Barack Obama, his opponents, the U.S. government and a recalcitrant and troublesome Zionist element within the Jewish community.

Welcomed to the Indianapolis Convention Center podium with a standing ovation from a crowd of nearly 5,000 people, Min. Farrakhan showed the world he is recovering well from an early October heart attack and subsequent bacterial infection.

The health issues caused the Minister to cancel speaking engagements over the past month, including a keynote address at the Holy Day of Atonement gathering in Tuskegee, Ala., to commemorate the 18th anniversary of the Million Man March.


Blacks were nearly 40 percent of U.S. homeless in 2012

By Frederick H. Lowe The North Star News www.thenorthstarnews.com

Nearly 40 percent of the nation’s homeless population in 2012 were Black, according to a report titled “The 2012 Annual Homeless Report to Congress: Volume II Estimates of Homelessness in the United States.”


Racist who shot Vernon Jordan, killed others executed in Missouri

By Zachary Lester and Ron Taylor -Special to the NNPA from the Afro-American Newspaper-

Joseph Paul Franklin, who told authorities that a crime spree that left at least seven people dead was motivated by his dislike for Blacks, interracial couples and Jews, was executed by lethal injection Nov. 20 in Missouri.


Love for the man, love for the message

By Ashahed M. Muhammad -Assistant Editor-

INDIANAPOLIS - Nearly 5,000 people gathered at the Indianapolis Convention Center, many traveling hours to see Minister Louis Farrakhan's first public message in over a month since health challenges caused him to cancel several appearances, including a previous planned date in Indianapolis.


Taking efforts to fight prejudice in Cuba to the barrios

By Patricia Grogg

HAVANA (IPS) - From a very young age, Irma Castañeda has braided her curly hair and cared for it with natural recipes inherited from her mother, ignoring the widespread conception that Black women’s hair is “ugly” or “bad.”


Gaps threaten conflict minerals certification

By Carey L. Biron

WASHINGTON - Countries in Africa's Great Lakes region are moving too slowly on an international plan to certify the sourcing of "conflict minerals," researchers here are warning, a failure that could threaten the entire certification process.


Iranian-U.S. Rapprochement: What’s in it for Israel and Saudi Arabia?

By Mark N. Katz

WASHINGTON - Israel, Saudi Arabia, and some of the other Arab Gulf states are deeply skeptical of the Barack Obama administration’s efforts to reach a deal with Iran limiting its nuclear program and to improve U.S.-Iranian relations generally.


Motherland reality: As simple as drawing lines on a map

By Jehron Muhammad

To show students how Africa was divvied up in 1885 by Europeans, I stood in front of my son Equiano’s sixth grade class at Germantown Friends School in Philadelphia and armed only with a magic marker, he drew “artificial borders” on a map of Africa, devoid of its current nation states, that was projected from the Internet onto an erasable board.


Libya protesters close another eastern oil refinery after Western facility reopens

By Esam Mohamed Associated Press

Scores of Libyan protesters shut down an oil refinery in the country’s east to demand jobs they claim were promised for 1,000 people, a state-owned oil company official said.


Small Businesses: Bigger than you think, more important than you know

By Nisa Islam Muhammad -Staff Writer-

WASHINGTON - Supporting job creation among Black business owners and starting more Black businesses are two solutions to stagnant unemployment numbers in the Black community.


Corporations rewriting U.S. labor laws

By Ramy Srour

WASHINGTON - U.S. state legislators and corporate lobbies have engaged in an unprecedented attack on minimum wages that has lowered U.S. labor standards, according to new research.


Living, working and doing business in Africa

By Brian E. Muhammad -Contributing Writer-

MONTGOMERY, Ala. - Clear-headed advice was given on “Traveling, Living and Doing Business in Africa” as part of activities celebrating the 18th anniversary of the Million Man March and Holy Day of Atonement.


Black Dollars, Black Power

By Starla Muhammad -Staff Writer-

Black people pooling economic resources is not an unrealistic fantasy or "wishful thinking" naysayers often suggest. In fact, nationwide, efforts large and small are underway to put into motion the means and methods of making economic development and economic growth in Black communities not just a slogan but a functioning reality.


U.S. doesn’t care about poor people

By Julianne Malveaux -Guest Columnist-

The message of the poverty data is that our nation really does not care about poor people. We have seen that “trickle down” and other theories fail, and we have yet to implement a model that requires those who have gained economic expansion to share their gains with an economy that is faltering.


'Let Us Make Man' How To Overcome The Pain of Being a Black Man in White America (Continued)

By The Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan

Each of us has to decide to clean up our act. This body is the real House of God. Not the physical houses of worship that we go to, not buildings.
» CONTINUE

'Let Us Make Man' How To Overcome The Pain of Being a Black Man in White America

By The Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan

Some of you don’t even know why you're in pain, because your nature has never been explained to you. So, you don't know "where the pain is coming from," and you don't know "why you're in pain." » CONTINUE

'Business Is Warfare': What is Required for Our Economic Independence? (cont'd)

By The Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan

Do we need land? Did you know at the beginning of the 20th century, Blacks had over 16 million acres of land? Did you know that coming out of slavery, Black folk set up 60 all-Black towns in America? » CONTINUE

'Business Is Warfare': What is Required for Our Economic Independence?

By The Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan

If we are not the owners of land, and lots of it, then we will not be able to produce the things that we consume. So we will always be at the mercy of others who produce, and therefore we will be the consumer people rather than a productive people! » CONTINUE

Men of This World Do Not Desire A Righteous Woman

By The Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan

The greatest gift to any man is a virtuous woman. A man who has such a woman by his side is the most blessed of men, for her virtue is a covering for him and her virtue ensures his future. » CONTINUE

'EconomicBlueprint.org': Muhammad's Program to End Poverty and Want Pt. 2

By Student Minister Ishmael Muhammad

With a proven Economic Blueprint to "end poverty and want" to secure that which will give us the basic necessities of life, create jobs, and make us builders instead of "beggars," Allah wants to grow us into a nation! » CONTINUE

'EconomicBlueprint.org': Muhammad's Program to End Poverty and Want

By Student Minister Ishmael Muhammad

We have to study "Booker T. Washington," study "Marcus Garvey," study "Elijah Muhammad"; study these men and women mentioned above-and not honor them "in name" in some annual birthday celebration, but carry into practice the principles that they laid down. » CONTINUE

'Guidance For Our President And Our Nation' continued

By the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan

They had hope that maybe you would change the direction of the nation from where Bush had taken it. And in the beginning, it seemed as though you did want to do that; but, unfortunately, you fell in with the Neo-Conservatives. » CONTINUE

'Guidance For Our President And Our Nation'

By the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan

For this nation is now being sent to the depths of hell by the inordinate greed and lust for power, and the wealth and the resources of the peoples of the world in the hands of a few to the detriment of the many.
» CONTINUE

Why The Transgenic Seed and The Natural Seed Cannot Coexist

By the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan

..Why The Grafted Human Being is Disagreeable to Live With In Peace
When you see "the death of The West," it's not only the death of The West in terms of the dying population of the White race, it is the death of the religion that they organized for their political purposes. » CONTINUE