The Final Call Online, 09-14-1999

* Special OAU Summit Coverage *

OAU meets in Libya for special session
43 African leaders answer Gadhafi's call for unity

SIRTE, Libya�In the face of mounting competition from global economic blocs and the threat of neo-colonialism, African leaders meeting here for the 4th Extraordinary Summit of the Organization of African Unity (OAU) determined that Africa would become the world�s largest economic and political bloc, and perhaps the leader of the next millennium.

Recent report says economic gains could dwindle unless skills improve

WASHINGTON�If you�re still thinking that a high school diploma or a GED is all you need to be all you can be, think again. Once upon a time the unskilled could get a job and prosper in the labor force, not so in the 21st century, according to a new report by the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies.

Houston Embraces Million Family March

HOUSTON�Minister Benjamin Muhammad, the East Coast regional minister of the Nation of Islam, and Claudette Marie Muhammad, the chief of protocol for the Nation of Islam, have been appointed director and deputy director of the Million Family March.

Minister Louis Farrakhan speaks on:
Envy: The Mother of Murder!

Of all the characteristics of human beings that are bad, envy is the worst. It is the most unredeeming and wicked of the negative characteristics of human beings.
Envy has at its root a gross and inordinate self-concept either on the side of gross inferiority or gross arrogance. A proper self-concept is vitally necessary to have a balanced and peaceful mind with contentment. However, when one has low self-esteem this self-concept breeds friction and trouble.

Daghestan: A sign
of Russia's break-up?

After the 1994-1996 uprising in the northern Caucasus, Russian authorities thought they had found a way to defuse tension in the region through their negotiated settlement with Chechnya. Part of the agreement was a de facto recognition of Chechnyan independence after five years. The Russians had reason to be optimistic. Chechnya is the only ethnically homogenous province.

The end of Busing
by Lee Hubbard
-Guest Columnist-

Another school year is upon us as the summer comes to an end. A look of excitement will come across the faces of children as they start new schools and meet new people. And one of the social experiments that was seen as giving students a leg up in education, busing will not be present in Boston and St. Louis, and it and other desegregation measures are being phased out in various school systems across the country.

FCN EDITORIAL
The Waco revelations and
government's dirty secrets

Help self:
What must be done
with the so-called Negroes
by Hon. Elijah Muhammad

The Big Lie
Curbing Black births
by Kimberley Jane Wilson

ELEVEN FIFTY-FIVE
by Abdul Allah Muhammad

Farrakhan The Traveler
by Jabril Muhammad

How To Eat To Live
by The Honorable
Elijah Muhammad

Must eat from the proper
'tree' to unite with Allah
by Rev. James L. Bevel