CHARLOTTE, N.C. - The Nation of Islam’s Executive Council visited here to work logistics for the 2012 Holy Day of Atonement,
which commemorates the 17th anniversary of the historic Million Man
March. The Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan announced to over 57,000
followers on Twitter that Charlotte would be the host city for the 2012
Holy Day of Atonement in a June tweet.
After arriving at Charlotte Douglas
International Airport, the N.O.I. delegation was given a police escort
through the airport by the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department. The
council toured the Bojangles Coliseum, where 10,000 will hear Min.
Farrakhan’s keynote address “Muhammad’s Economic Blueprint: Ending
Poverty and Want.”
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The Holy Day of Atonement will take place Oct.
12-14, about a month after the Democratic National Convention and weeks
before the 2012 presidential election.
COLUMBIA, S.C. — South Carolina's public employees and retirees will pay more for their health care next year after all, despite legislators passing a budget that covered their premium hikes.
The Budget and Control Board voted 3-2 Wednesday to split the cost of the increase between workers and their employers, which include agencies, school districts and public colleges. Both workers and employers will pay 4.6 percent more starting Jan. 1.
The rare, surprise move bucks the 2012-13 fiscal year budget. Critics called it purely political.
CHESAPEAKE -- Six million one hundred thousand dollars a month: that's how much the state pays private company, Logisticare, to be its transportation broker for Medicaid patients.
These are people who must rely on medical transportation to make appointments either because they have no other means or require specialized care. But what happens when the ride shows up late or not at all? Rose Whybark of Chesapeake has had to find out the answer to that question more times than she wants. Her 17-year-old son, Gary, relies on Logisticare to get to and from his appointments. He has cerebral palsy and scoliosis that recently required back surgery. He has to be transported on a stretcher. Whybark says Gary often misses appointments because the transportation provider shows up late or not at all.
Min. Farrakhan is joined by Black men during visit to Chicago's South Shore community. Photo: dbarge.com
(FinalCall.com) - The portrayal of Black boys and men as thugs, criminals or perpetual underachievers is nothing new. And the unfortunate but glaring reality for Black males in the U.S. includes high unemployment, escalating prison rates and below average school graduation rates. Black men and boys are also members of a society that in many ways expects nothing more of them.
According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the unemployment rate for Black men age 20 and over is 14.9 percent, although in many areas the numbers are much higher. The Sentencing Project, which tracks incarceration and criminal justice issues, reports 1 out of 10 Black males in their 30s is in jail or prison each day in the U.S. The so-called “War on Drugs” is a war on Black men, according to many activists.
The key to unlocking the potential to Black men is self-knowledge and the knowledge of God, Ishmael R. Muhammad, the national student assistant to the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan told The Final Call.
Min. Farrakhan’s ministry has included tireless work to develop Black men. Photo: dbarge.com
“We find a great despair, pain and uncertainty and that is the result of the ignorance that’s so pervasive in our community. So what we take to them is knowledge of self and we’re reminding them and letting them know in most cases, who they are and their origin in the world,” he said speaking of recent weeks when the Fruit of Islam, the men of the Nation of Islam, have been out in the streets of Chicago and other cities trying to increase peace.
Some Big Cities Jump Into the Fray, Enacting Parking Restrictions to Cope With Rising Tide of Gourmet Vendors
A street fight is brewing between gourmet food-truck vendors and restaurants—not over the grub, but how it's sold.
Under pressure to protect local food businesses from mounting competition, cities across the country -- including Chicago, Boston, New York and Sunnyvale, Calif. -- are putting the brakes on a rising tide of food-truck vendors. Sarah Needleman has details on The News Hub.
Under pressure to protect bricks-and-mortar restaurants from increased competition, several big cities are starting to apply the brakes on a rising tide of food-truck vendors with fully loaded kitchens.
Boston, Chicago, St. Louis and Seattle are among the cities enacting laws that restrict where food trucks can serve customers in proximity to their rivals and for how long. Some food-truck operators argue that they shouldn't be punished for offering an innovative service, especially since many cities already allow restaurants to open up alongside one another.
PHOENIX, ARIZONA - JUNE 22: Families gather food at a food pantry for those in need inside the Streets of Destiny Church June 22, 2006 in Phoenix, Arizona. The two year old church serves mainly working class Latinos from Mexico. According to the Center for Immigration Studies, nearly 37 percent of immigrants in Phoenix and 36 percent statewide currently fall below the poverty level. Many are stuck in low-wage jobs and are forced to resort to churches and food pantries to make ends meet. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)
A new study from the Center for Immigration Studies shows that high percentages of legal and illegal immigrants in America are drawing benefits from at least one major form of welfare.
Using U.S. Census Bureau data from 2010 and 2011, the group analyzed the more than 50 million legal and illegal immigrants and their American-born children under 18 years of age. Large numbers, the limited immigration advocacy group found, are struggling in poverty, reliant on welfare and uninsured.
The study found that in 2010, 36 percent of immigrant-headed households receive benefits from at least one welfare program, compared to just 23 percent of households headed by U.S. natives. Among households with children, immigrant welfare households outnumbered non-immigrants by a similarly wide margin: 57 percent to 40 percent.
Welfare enrollment was highest for households headed by immigrants originating in Mexico, with 57 percent participation. Guatemalan immigrants were second, with 55 percent; those from the Dominican Republic were third, with 54 percent participation.
New audible answering capability will be available in a few days, according to Google. Meanwhile, test showing Gmail messages in personal search results raises some eyebrows.
One of the first images from the camera atop the rover Curiosity's mast shows a Mars landscape that scientists called remarkably Earth-like, as if NASA 'put a rover out in the Mojave Desert.'
“If a curriculum does not prepare a student for life itself, then it is a worthless curriculum,” said Minister Farrakhan during his August 6 keynote address wrapping up the Nation of Islam's 4th Annual Educational Conference themed: “Developing A Nation of Readers.”
Minister Farrakhan said the Western world's educational system was designed to place educators under the control of the society's elite rulers making their student's unfit to become masters of their own destinies creating perpetual servants and slaves.
“He never educated you to be a ruler! He educated you to be ruled and to love it!” said the Minister. “You are a dreamer but not bringing dreams into reality.You live in a dream world, you live in a world of illusion that's why you go to sleep at night tormented because you never have achieved your dreams!”
He challenged teachers and educators to enact God-centered solutions in an educational system that has “flatlined” and failed to cultivate and educate Black children to achieve their inherent greatness. “We have to challenge this educational system or get out of it,” said Min. Farrakhan.
Conference organizers wanted to provide practical ways to improve teachers, administrators and schools based on techniques and curriculum that properly prepare students for life.
“Whether it be the study technology or whether it be promoting literacy, the Minister wants us to get out into the community and help eliminate illiteracy in our community, we're just making it practical and hands-on,” said Dr. Larry Muhammad.
It is good to know that I am not alone in this assessment. Perhaps the great teachings I'd received from my dad growing up in Bronx, N.Y. prepared me for such truths. I hope that you, the readers, will take this article in a good spirit. It is not about religion. It is not about whether your faith-based is Christianity, or if you are a Muslim, or not. It's not about whether you are a Jehovah Witness, or a Buddhist.
We - ALL OF US - must understand what is needed to educate our child[ren] with the understanding that it is their future - it is our legacy that must be preserved academically, physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually.
We Need "Thinkers" and "Rulers!" Not 'puppets' and 'mimickers!'
