The Final Call Online, 05-25-1999

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Summit draws record number and spurs economic development in Motherland

ACCRA, Ghana—"For centuries the Atlantic Ocean was a barrier between Africa and the Americas, which was slowly crossed only in agonizing pain and suffering," Ghana’s President and host of the Fifth African-African American Summit told the Presidential Plenary session May 19. "Yet those who crossed over kept alive through the generations the memory of the homeland far away across the wide sea."

Beating death raises tensions between Blacks and local Arab merchants

DETROIT—Racial tensions remain high in Black and Arab communities here after the beating death of 34-year-old electrician Kalvin Porter by two Arab immigrants from Yemen. Adel Altam and Fadhel Mazeb used a stick and tire iron to allegedly beat Mr. Porter to death in front of his five children at the Sunoco gas station where the two men worked.

First bricks laid for Nation of Islam mosque/school & training center in Ghana

ACCRA, Ghana—The first bricks for the Nation of Islam’s mosque/school and training center were laid May 18 by Mother Khadijah Farrakhan, Nation of Islam Chief of Staff Leonard F. Muhammad, a delegation of Nation of Islam officials and chiefs and imams from nearby Muslim communities.
The facility will be located in a community called Galilea on the edge of Weija Lake on the outskirts of Accra, an area of development where the population of Muslims is increasing.

President of Sudan, former rebel leader refute slavery charge

ACCRA, Ghana—Even as he strategized with African leaders and leaders from Black America to bring economic prosperity to the African continent, the president of Sudan denounced charges that his government harbors slaves and is a bastion of human rights abuses.

Lawsuit filed over shooting of teenager

LOS ANGELES—Powerhouse litigator Johnnie L. Cochran recently announced a wrongful death lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court on behalf of the family of 19-year-old Tyisha Miller, who was shot to death by four Riverside, Calif., police department officers.

Africa declares Y2K emergency

ACCRA, Ghana (PANA)—A group of high-level African officials and technical managers May 15 ended a three-day conference in Accra on the millennium bug and declared the problem an emergency which should be a "priority of all regional meetings."

FCN EDITORIAL
A boost and
warning for Africa

Outlawing Prison
Law Books
by Mumia Abu-Jamal

Farrakhan The Traveler
by Jabril Muhammad

How To Eat to Live
by the Honorable
Elijah Muhammad

Atonement
by Rev. James Bevel