Naba’a Muhammad

Chicago

Naba'a Richard Muhammad, editor, The Final Call, your independent voice. 2024 marked 45 years. Creator of StraightWords podcast and https://t.co/w98sjE9hS3.

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Articles

Black women, police, and the brutality within: Even cadets aren’t safe

3 weeks ago | new.finalcall.com | Naba'a Muhammad |Naba’a Muhammad

Consider the deeply disturbing case of Alexus Byrd-Maxey, a young Black woman and police cadet who, rather than being protected and uplifted in her journey to serve the community, was violated, isolated, and ultimately terminated from the Chicago Police Academy after reporting sexual harassment.
The Case of Larry Hoover

3 weeks ago | new.finalcall.com | Naba'a Muhammad |Naba’a Muhammad

There has been much talk since the news that President Trump commuted the federal sentence of our brother, Larry Hoover, who is not available for release because he must serve time for conviction in the state of Illinois. We should thank Mr. Trump for his action, whatever his motivation, as he did something that neither Democratic presidents Joe Biden nor Barack Obama did.
The murder of George Floyd and the search for solutions

1 month ago | new.finalcall.com | Naba'a Muhammad |Naba’a Muhammad

On May 25, 2020, George Floyd, a Black man, pleaded for his life as he lay pinned under the knee of then-Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin. For 9 minutes and 29 seconds, George’s life was slowly extinguished while witnesses begged for mercy, and a teenage Black girl captured the brutal killing on video. It went viral. “I can’t breathe,” he pleaded, gasping for air. With his final words, he called for his late mother.
An Honorable Man and Divine Servant

1 month ago | new.finalcall.com | Naba'a Muhammad |Naba’a Muhammad

When honors are accorded to highly valued individuals, it is often said that by honoring this individual, we honor the best in ourselves. It means there’s something unique about this person, making them valuable beyond riches, fame, notoriety, or power. They reflect intrinsic values and inherent gifts within us, regardless of wealth, celebrity, or influence. They share knowledge to help us discover our true selves and power.
Celebrating our children and the art of healing, a perfect match!

2 months ago | new.finalcall.com | Naba'a Muhammad |Naba’a Muhammad

Spring brings mild weather, sunshine and gratitude after winter’s reign and it also brings another special event, Match Day. Match Day is when medical school graduates move into residencies with hospitals in the final laps of a journey to become full-fledged doctors. Attiyya Maryam, after a stellar high school performance alongside undergraduate and medical school at two respected East Coast universities, is headed to a major Southern hospital.
Empowering bad policing in a troubled city

2 months ago | new.finalcall.com | Naba'a Muhammad |Naba’a Muhammad

In a country where time is often spent majoring in minor things, issues that should be placed on an elevated level are ignored or neglected—and that neglect can have major consequences. Consider a “pilot program” underway in Chicago that allows police officers in Englewood, a majority Black neighborhood, to arrest and charge people with felony gun possession crimes without the oversight of prosecutors.
What was Erykah saying?

2 months ago | new.finalcall.com | Naba'a Muhammad |Naba’a Muhammad

Erykah Badu sparked questions by wearing a mohair “booty suit,” as her designer called it, to Billboard’s annual Women in Music event. The outfit exaggerated her breasts, lower body and started intense conversations about what the neo-soul artist and icon was saying. Some felt she was mocking the BBL (Brazilian Butt Lift) craze, the entertainment industry, and widespread encouragement of body-altering procedures.
You can’t have peace without removing the peacebreaker

2 months ago | new.finalcall.com | Naba'a Muhammad |Naba’a Muhammad

Do you really think you can reason with murderers? Israel broke the Gaza ceasefire, which was a cruel farce, and restarted its operations to destroy the Palestinian people in the enclave on the eastern coast of the Mediterranean Sea. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has moved with murderous impunity under the protection of President Donald Trump, who is unapologetic in backing Israel.
Israel’s genocide and America’s bloody hands

Mar 26, 2025 | new.finalcall.com | Naba'a Muhammad |Naba’a Muhammad

As expected, the settler state of Israel is again slaughtering Palestinians in the streets of Gaza, breaking a so-called ceasefire that was never about solutions and only a momentary shift of murderous actions from the enclave to the West Bank.
No time to be silent

Mar 17, 2025 | new.finalcall.com | Naba'a Muhammad |Naba’a Muhammad

“We wish to plead our own cause; For too long others have spoken for us, now we speak for ourselves.”—John Brown Russwurm and Samuel Cornish, Freedom’s Journal, 1827 The struggle for Black self-determination in the United States has been long, arduous and dangerous. Central to that struggle has been our need for information and the ability to define ourselves.