Final Call
By Ashahed M. Muhammad -Asst. Editor-

Farrakhan challenges Detroit leadership and community to unify to take back city

A message of guidance for resurrecting the Motor City and rebuilding the Black community.

DETROIT - During a two-day visit to Detroit which included messages to the city's political and spiritual leadership, the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan offered a vision of unity, cooperation and productivity that could turn the city around.

Though the city is presently viewed as an example of urban blight and economic decay, the residents of what was famously called "The Motor City" have an opportunity to change the city's conditions and to serve as an example of urban renewal to be emulated across the country.

This once proud city is only a shell of its former self with Black and White residents fleeing, abandoned and burned-out properties on major swaths of land, and in many vacant lots throughout the city, trash is stacked up high as if they were landfills. » FULL STORY

Blacks still majority of the wrongfully convicted

By Freddie Allen NNPA Washington Correspondent

WASHINGTON (NNPA) – When a Baltimore grocery store employee fingered 26-year-old Michael Austin for the murder of a security guard in the spring of 1974, Austin didn't even match the police sketch. The wanted suspect was less 6 feet tall and Austin was the size of a small forward in the NBA.


Farrakhan delivers electrifying message in 'The Motor City'

By Ashahed M. Muhammad -Asst. Editor-

Over 3,000 heard the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan live May 17 at Fellowship Chapel in Detroit, Michigan. Among those in attendance was long-time Congressman John Conyers who said he enjoyed the Minister's vision and motivational message to the community.


'Making Satan known'

By Richard B. Muhammad -Editor-

In part 19 of his weekly series, The Time and What Must Be Done, the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan continued to expose the reality of Satan and the evil actions of those who use divine wisdom to lead America and the world off of the path of God.


Giving ex-offenders a clean slate

By La Risa Lynch Contributing Writer

Having a criminal record has broader implications than the average citizen or lawmakers know, said Anthony Lowery, of the Safer Foundation, an ex-offender advocacy group. Criminal records, he explained, prevent people from obtaining jobs, housing and college financial aid.


80 Years of Grace: Celebrating the birth anniversary of Minister Louis Farrakhan

By Charlene Muhammad -National Correspondent-

CHICAGO - The phrase "party with a purpose" took on a whole new meaning as the Nation of Islam gathered to celebrate the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan's 80th birth anniversary on May 11.


Farrakhan challenges Detroit leadership and community to unify to take back city

By Ashahed M. Muhammad -Asst. Editor-

A message of guidance for resurrecting the Motor City and rebuilding the Black community.

DETROIT - During a two-day visit to Detroit which included messages to the city's political and spiritual leadership, the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan offered a vision of unity, cooperation and productivity that could turn the city around.

Though the city is presently viewed as an example of urban blight and economic decay, the residents of what was famously called "The Motor City" have an opportunity to change the city's conditions and to serve as an example of urban renewal to be emulated across the country.

This once proud city is only a shell of its former self with Black and White residents fleeing, abandoned and burned-out properties on major swaths of land, and in many vacant lots throughout the city, trash is stacked up high as if they were landfills.


Blacks still majority of the wrongfully convicted

By Freddie Allen NNPA Washington Correspondent

WASHINGTON (NNPA) – When a Baltimore grocery store employee fingered 26-year-old Michael Austin for the murder of a security guard in the spring of 1974, Austin didn't even match the police sketch. The wanted suspect was less 6 feet tall and Austin was the size of a small forward in the NBA.


Federal gov't complicit in pushing low wages for workers, charge advocates and a recent report

By Askia Muhammad -Senior Editor-

WASHINGTON - In the face of the widening gap between increasing pay for CEOs and other top executives while worker pay remains stagnant and in many instances hours some employees work decrease, low-wage workers are uniting all over the country to demand decent pay—a so-called “living wage.”


Wells Fargo sued on claims it wrongfully litigated California man to death

By RT.com

Larry Delassus' heart stopped on December 19, 2012 during a court hearing against Wells Fargo, the bank that had for two years demanded he pay more than $10,000 of his neighbor’s late property taxes and is now being sued for wrongful death.


Demands for stopping debt payments and calls for reparations in Detroit

By Diane Bukowski

DETROIT - Organizers say Detroit must mobilize immediately against criminal global banks which have evicted 237,500 residents, shut down half the city’s public schools, and devastated city services and jobs, charging $600 million last year alone in debt payments.


Afghanistan demands arrest of ‘American’ death squad leader

By RT.com

The U.S. and Afghanistan are at loggerheads again after new accusations that an American citizen has “disappeared” fifteen people in the province of Wardak, where continued NATO presence has been hotly opposed. Washington has denied any involvement.


Lessons in economic integration for African Union

By John Fraser

JOHANNESBURG - As the African Union celebrates its 50th anniversary this year, it is still younger and less integrated than the 56-year-old body that is now the European Union, and, according to politicians and diplomats, has a big advantage over the Europeans as it charts its own path of integration.


Somali women cashing in on business

By Abdurrahman Warsameh

MOGADISHU (IPS) - In the Hamarweyne market, Mogadishu’s largest, 24 year old Maryama Yunis is finding success with her tiny cosmetic store. The young Somali entrepreneur has been in business for two years, selling everything from soaps and shampoos to lipsticks and eyeliners, and now she’s turning a decent profit.


Drug dealers trade crime for peace in Rio de Janeiro

By Fabiola Ortiz

RIO DE JANEIRO - Tuchinha was once a drug lord in Rio de Janeiro’s Mangueira favela. But today he is helping youngsters in this Brazilian city turn their lives around and leave behind crime, prison and the likelihood of an early death.


Kenyan women to break glass ceiling in cabinet

By Brian Ngugi

NAIROBI (IPS) - Kenya’s nominees for cabinet secretary positions, who include an unprecedented number of women—6 out of 18—will undergo a grueling public vetting process by the Parliamentary Committee on Appointments.


Federal Reserve: rising inequality jeopardizes economic recovery

By RT.com

A top ranking member of the United States Federal Reserve cautioned economists that growing inequality within the U.S. was worsening the odds of a quick return to the conditions of the pre-recession days.


U.S. economic woes started in Reagan era: Analyst

By PressTV

The US economic problems date back to the 1980s, and have their roots in former president Ronald Reagan's failed policies.


Activists working to find solutions for youth unemployment

By Saeed Shabazz -Staff Writer-

NEW YORK - Youth unemployment has reached 11.7 percent nationally, according to the U.S. Dept. of Labor, however, for Black youth, ages 19 to 29 the national number is 20 percent, while 12.6 percent of Latinos in the same age bracket are unemployed.


Hopeful news and help to prevent home foreclosures

By Nisa Islam Muhammad -Staff Writer-

WASHINGTON, D.C. - For the first time since 2008 when the housing crisis started, the total number of delinquent mortgages and foreclosures fell below five million according to statistics from LPS Applied Analytics reported April 23.


Great Recession leaves Blacks poorer, more vulnerable

By Freddie Allen NNPA Washington Correspondent

WASHINGTON – 'Minorities' clinging to the middle class have come out of the Great Recession at a higher risk for falling into poverty during the next economic crisis, according to a re-cent report by the Center for American Progress, a nonpartisan think tank in Washington, D.C.


'The Time and What Must Be Done' 2013 Lecture Series, Part 19

By the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan

Your very weak answer to what we are saying only shows you have no "arguments" to defeat The Truth. So the only thing that you have is your power to misuse and to mislabel through your power with the media, your power with Black leadership, your power with Black preachers, your power with Black intellectuals.. » CONTINUE

'The Time and What Must Be Done' 2013 Lecture Series, Part 18

By the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan

Satan does not want you to "fall away" from him. He wants to keep you with him! So The Truth is what must be told, because it is time... It's time that you should know The Truth that Jesus prophesied: "You shall know the truth, and the truth will set you free." » CONTINUE

'The Time and What Must Be Done' 2013 Lecture Series, Part 17

By the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan

The scripture teaches that "Satan deceived the whole world." Shouldn't you "look behind" everything that a Natural Liar speaks? If Satan deceived the whole world, don’t you think we are in the world and can be deceived with "lying wonders"?
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'The Time and What Must Be Done' 2013 Lecture Series, Part 16

By the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan

I remember reading about our president Thomas Jefferson.. When he reflected on "the condition of the Black man in America,' he said these words: "I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just, and that His justice cannot sleep forever."

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'The Time and What Must Be Done' 2013 Lecture Series, Part 15

By the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan

Whether on an individual basis, a national basis, or an international basis, this is that Time that we will be paid fully for what we have done, and only The Mercy of God can keep back from us what each of us is justly due. So if all are being called to "our record," and the nations are "kneeling" before their "record" --and this is "The Day of Requital,"
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'The Time and What Must Be Done' 2013 Lecture Series, Part 14

By the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan

Instead of seeing Farrakhan as a "hater of America," you should see me in the light of one who loves the land in which I was born, and sees America as the greatest country in the last 6,000 years. And, I am warning you because I want to see the country avert the consequences of her evil. » CONTINUE

'The Time and What Must Be Done' 2013 Lecture Series, Part 12

By the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan

The Honorable Elijah Muhammad, like Moses before him, is appealing to "The Modern Pharaoh"-the government and people of the United States—that God has come, and has chosen for Himself the despised, the rejected, the unloved, the unwanted Black Man and Woman of America to be The Cornerstone. » CONTINUE

'The Time and What Must Be Done' 2013 Lecture Series, Part 13

By the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan

To America, and the nations of the Earth: Now it's time for us to review your record. I want to recite to you your record, because while the record is clear on the suffering of Black and Brown and the Native Americans and oppressed people in this nation, one of the things that the American people are not aware of is America's foreign policy. » CONTINUE

‘The Time and What Must Be Done’ 2013 Lecture Series, Part 1

By the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan

It is a great honor, a great privilege and great pleasure for us to come to you via radio, or television or social media, to bring to you a very, very timely message. The title of this message, starting in January 2013, will carry through for the whole year; and that title was given to us by the Honorable Elijah Muhammad: "The Time And What Must Be Done." » CONTINUE

'The Time and What Must Be Done' 2013 Lecture Series, Part 2

By the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan

There could be no better subject for Black people in America, and for the American people, and for the Nations of The Earth, as this subject given to us by the Honorable Elijah Muhammad, "The Time And What Must Be Done." So, let's define for ourselves "The Time". » CONTINUE