The Final Call Online, 08-17-1999

Lawyers successfully defend
Min. Farrakhan, Nation of Islam

For the second time in as many months, the Nation of Islam has successfully vanquished an opponent in court. A Massachusetts judge recently ruled that the Nation of Islam has a First Amendment right to have separate religious events for men. The verdict dismissed a lawsuit accusing the Nation of discrimination for allegedly barring a woman from a 1994 "Men Only" meeting in Boston.

African youth urged to embrace African values

ACCRA, Ghana (PANA)—Dr. Mohamed Ibn Chambas, Ghana’s deputy minister of education, called on the youth in Ghana and Africa to be proud of their rich African heritage. He noted that the youth seem to be captured by events of the western world and are deceived by the pictures painted in foreign movies and other musical shows they watch.

Pushing the Nation's agenda forward
Special Envoy to England says Final Call program is first priority

LONDON—If there is one thing that is uppermost in the mind of Captain Dennis Muhammad, Minister Farrakhan’s special envoy to England, it is to take The Final Call to greater heights. And barely a week into his mission, he’s already doing that.

Remembering
Marcus Garvey's Birthday

August is an important month in the worldwide African Liberation Movement. This is the month we pay tribute to the birthday and legacy of one of our greatest organizers and leaders who served the African World Community, the Honorable Marcus Garvey. This year will mark the 112th birthday of this great champion of Black redemption.

We must depend on Allah and ourselves
by Minister Louis Farrakhan

Who is better than Allah (God) to depend on for our sustenance and the granting of our innermost desires? Who knows what is best for us, other than Allah (God)?
We cannot build a nation of righteousness depending on the governments of the world, for most of the governments of the world have turned away from Allah (God) and are now suffering great loss.

National Headlines

Rainbow/Push Coalition holds annual convention

Mumia Abu-Jamal may face new death decree

Welfare deductions for missing school cause concern

Nation of Islam hosts Liberia's First Lady

Drugs: New pretext for U.S. Intervention?
MONTEVIDEO (IPS)—The "war on drugs’’ has replaced the counterinsurgency struggle as a pretext for U.S. intervention in South America, observers note. The borders between the two, however, are often blurry.

Internet comes to rural Malawi
LILONGWE (IPS)—From his small office in the remote district of Mchinji, Christopher Chiumia can now surf the Internet and conduct dialogue with friends around the world.

FCN EDITORIAL
Performing abortions
to prevent crime?

ELEVEN FIFTY-FIVE
by Abdul Allah Muhammad

How To Eat To Live
by The Honorable
Elijah Muhammad

Unveiling the Number 19
by Tynnetta Muhammad

Farrakhan The Traveler
by Jabril Muhammad

Africa and the World
by Akbar Muhammad

Money Makers move
'do nothing' Congress
by Robert Weissman
and Russell Mokhiber