The Final Call Online, 06-08-1999

Culture Clash
How American culture is seducing African youth

PARIS—From wearing U.S.-styled clothing, to hoarding imported videos, movies and CDs, their lust for everything American is insatiable. Like others, "Banga," a self-described conscious Black man, is also brainwashed by the negative celluloid images Hollywood regurgitates about Black Americans, and by what he sees on that staple of imported cultural imperialism, MTV, the 24-hour U.S. music video channel.

N.Y. Street Crime Unit strikes again, unarmed teenager shot

NEW YORK—Two days after police officer Justin Volpe confessed that he sodomized Abner Louima and on the same day the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights held a hearing here on the extent of misconduct and abuse in the New York police department, the department’s notorious Street Crime Unit struck again.

Satan Offers
Substitute World
by the Honorable Louis Farrakhan

New things are fascinating, but do you not think Satan knows how fascinating it is to have a new world? So the Holy Qur’an teaches us that whenever the messenger of God desires something, Satan will cast, respecting the messenger’s desire. That means that whenever God wants to give you something of value, Satan will come to offer you the thing God has offered you, but what Satan offers is just to deceive.

Apartheid-era killer: Top leaders approved covert war on Blacks

PRETORIA, South Africa (PANA)—Apartheid-era security policeman Eugene de Kock has labeled senior government officials, including former President F.W. de Klerk, as cowards.

Will Internet racial divide mean second class cyber-citzenship?

WASHINGTON (Capitol NewsWire)—At this embryonic stage of the Internet’s development, no one disputes figures showing minorities trailing whites in computer ownership, cyberaccess and Internet know-how. But the impact of "the digital divide’’ is a matter of dispute between some Internet experts and civil rights advocates.

FCN EDITORIAL
Black America's
leadership challenge

An international trade in
dirty industries, poverty
and unemployment
by Robert Weissman
and Russell Mokhiber

Unveiling the Number 19
by Tynnetta Muhammad

ELEVEN FIFTY-FIVE
by Abdul Allah Muhammad

Farrakhan The Traveler
by Jabril Muhammad