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A former top deputy to Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan tells Newsmax that Barack Obama’s ties to the black nationalist movement in Chicago run deep, and that for many years the two men have had “an open line between them” to discuss policy and strategy, either directly or through intermediaries. “Remember that for years, if you were a politician in Chicago, you had to have some type of relationship with Louis Farrakhan. You had to. If you didn’t, you would be ostracized out of black Chicago,” said Dr. Vibert White Jr., who spent most of his adult life as...

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Obama inspired songs popping up across the Caribbean With John McCain in Mexico Thursday and Barack Obama polling off the charts in Canada, the Caribbean is also weighing in on the U.S. presidential election, as a slew of Obama-inspired calypso songs are popping up across the islands. Dubbed the “poor man’s newspaper” by practicioners of the genre, calypsos are often nuanced pieces of social commentary, meant to take the pulse of the population. Of all the Obama-themed songs, the most popular is a song entitled “Barack the Magnificent” by Trinidadian Calypso legend Mighty Sparrow, a pioneer of the genre who...

Chivalry, the Nation of Islam way. In the same edition of Final Call, there’s a gushing editorial praising Mr. O: Sen. Barack Obama has already made history by winning enough pledged delegates and commitments from super delegates to capture the Democratic Party nomination and enjoys the possibility of becoming the first Black man to serve as president of the United States. His success engenders a sense of pride among Blacks in America and excitement throughout the world as a nation that touts itself as a great democracy provides another sign of progress. In a country where Africans were once enslaved...

The leader of the Chicago-based Nation of Islam has made this third visit to Cuba, and praised the nation's medical training program. Minister Louis Farrakhan began the visit Monday by meeting young U.S. citizens from low income families studying to become physicians in the island, the Cuban government said. "I am impressed with what I have seen and heard," he said. "Gold for the permanent success of the school and the Cuban revolution, peace and love." Farrakhan recalled that Cuba offered medical aid to the United States when Hurricane Katrina hit the southeastern part of the country, but the White...

Minister Louis Farrakhan has announced that he is gravely ill and has temporarily abdicated his leadership of the Nation of Islam to the executive board, according to the Associated Press. Asking for solidarity so that the Nation "will live long after I and we have gone," the 73 year-old has taken time to recover from a "serious infection and inflammation," according to a letter he dated September 11 and posted in the Nation's Final Call newspaper. While in Cuba earlier this year, doctors discovered an ulcer in his anal area. He has since lost 35 pounds. In 1998, the leader...

U.S.: Farrakhan trip a disaster Pittsburgh Tribune Review Going to Cuba to learn about emergency management would be akin to going down there to learn about democracy," said Steve McCraw, former assistant director of the FBI, and Texas director of homeland security. Louis Farrakhan journeyed to Cuba on Monday to learn about disaster relief, but U.S. government officials don't believe he is receiving much of an education. Arriving for a weeklong visit, Farrakhan criticized the federal government for its handling of Hurricane Katrina's destruction of New Orleans last August.

WINDOW ROCK, Ariz. (AP) - Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan visited the Navajo Nation today to discuss issues the two groups have in common. A spokesman for Navajo Nation President Joe Shirley says Farrakhan had wanted to learn more about the tribe and the region and suggested the visit. Farrakhan had a series of meetings with Shirley and others and spoke before the tribal council. He touched on racial tensions that Navajos say have been brewing in the towns bordering the sprawling reservation. Farrakhan and Shirley also talked about American Indians’ struggle for sovereignty and self-determination and the need...

Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan called for "regime change" in the United States on Monday and denounced "wicked" U.S. policies for turning the world against America. "We need a new government, we need regime change in America," he said at the end of a visit to Communist Cuba. Farrakhan, who led the Million Man March on the Washington Mall in 1995 to promote black self-reliance, said the Bush administration's domestic policies were "sucking the blood of the poor and the weak." The controversial African American leader defended Iran's right to develop a nuclear energy program to reduce dependence on...

It's been nearly a month since Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakahan blamed "Zionists and neo-cons" for "manipulating" President Bush into invading Iraq - before blasting "wicked Jews" in Hollywood for promoting "lesbianism [and] homosexuality." Yet, outside of a few newspapers in Chicago, the same press that showers positive coverage on Farrakhan's Million Man marches has yet to get around to covering his Feb. 26 Saviours Day speech. "These neo-cons and Zionists have manipulated Bush and the American government and our boys and girls are dying in Iraq and in Afghanistan for the cause of Israel, not for the cause...

OAKLAND, Calif. - They weren't your ordinary thugs. Dressed in bow ties and dark suits, nearly a dozen men carrying metal pipes entered a corner store, shattered refrigerator cases and smashed bottles of liquor, wine and beer, terrifying the clerk but stealing nothing. But the recent attack at San Pablo Liquor — and an identical vandalism spree at another West Oakland store later that evening, along with an arson fire there and the kidnapping of the owner a few days later — have injected religion into the debate.The two episodes highlighted tensions — and different interpretations of the Quran —...

State, local officials also looking into flood wall collapses Thursday, November 10, 2005; Posted: 2:42 p.m. EST (19:42 GMT) NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana (AP) -- Federal prosecutors said they are conducting a criminal investigation into the levee failures that swamped New Orleans. Federal investigators are looking into the possibility of corruption in the design, construction and maintenance of the flood barriers, U.S. Attorney Jim Letten said. Letten said Wednesday that his office began the investigation the week after Hurricane Katrina. The August 29 hurricane, and subsequent canal breaches left about 80 percent of New Orleans under water, killing hundreds of residents...

WASHINGTON - Soil tests indicate that a soft, spongy layer of swamp peat underneath the 17th Street canal floodwall was the weak point that caused soil to move and the wall to breach during Hurricane Katrina, an engineer who has studied the data says. "The thing that is remarkable here is the very low strength of the soils around the bottom of the sheet pile" base of the floodwall, said Robert Bea, a geotechnical engineer at the University of California, Berkeley, who examined the test results. Bea is a member of the National Science Foundation team that is studying the...

WASHINGTON (AP) - Railing against the delayed relief for victims of Hurricane Katrina, Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan said Saturday that the federal government should be charged with "criminal neglect of the people of New Orleans." "For five days, the government did not act. Lives were lost," Farrakhan said at the 10th anniversary of the Million Man March. "We charge America with criminal neglect." A crowd of thousands cheered as dozens of prominent speakers - academics, activists, artists and media pundits - spoke, recited poetry and sang songs in the 12-hour program on the National Mall. Most of Louis...

RUSH: We got great audio sound bites from Calypso Louie coming up. Calypso Louie's -- what is this thing being called tomorrow? The Million More March. You know, tomorrow is a fascinating day, ladies and gentlemen. Tomorrow is showdown Saturday. This is Open Line Friday. Tomorrow is a Saturday that will test aspirations. It will test hopes and dreams. Will they reject the past and look to building a better future? If you think I'm talking about the referendum in Iraq, you're only partially correct. I am talking about that. They're going to be voting on the constitution there tomorrow....

OLIVIER DOULIERY / ABACAUSA.COM THE MINISTER: Farrakhan at the National Press Club Web Exclusive | Nation Questions for Louis Farrakhan The Nation of Islam minister talks to TIME about this weekend's Millions More Movement   Posted Friday, Oct. 14, 2005 A decade ago, Nation of Islam minister Louis Farrakhan led the Million Man March on Washington, D.C. and seemed poised to become a mainstream African-American political leader. But in the ensuing years conditions for many African-Americans have worsened, and Farrakhan himself disappeared from the political stage while fighting cancer. This week he will try to resusciatate his influence by...

Farrakhan: Mexican President Was Right to Say Immigrants Take Jobs Blacks Don't Want The Associated Press MILWAUKEE (AP) - Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan said Mexican President Vicente Fox was right to say that Mexican immigrants take jobs "that not even blacks want." Although Fox was sharply criticized for his remarks by some black leaders, Farrakhan said Sunday that blacks do not want to go to farms and pick fruit because they already "picked enough cotton." "Why are you so foolishly sensitive when somebody is telling you the truth?" he asked the crowd at Mercy Memorial Baptist Church. He...

RUSH: This is amazing. This is this morning in Washington, the tenth anniversary celebration of the Million Man March. Here is a portion of remarks made by the Reverend Sharpton. SHARPTON: Leading blacks are appointed by those in power. Black leaders are anointed by God and the masses of our people. But those that don't want to put the concerns of health care and education and our lack of a constitutional right to vote, and our lack of being able to deal in our community with schools that would educate us, if you don't want to come, don't come....

        Anti-Semitic, anti-white leader of the Nation of Islam Condemned Malcolm X to death Orchestrated the 1995 “Million Man March” After 9/11, he stated that America had insufficient proof of Osama bin Laden and al Qaeda’s culpability in the attack.   Louis Farrakhan is the current leader of the Nation of Islam (NOI), the black Muslim group founded in 1930 by Fard Muhammad and thereafter led to prominence from 1934 to 1975 by Elijah Muhammad.  Farrakhan was born Louis Eugene Walcott on May 11, 1933, in Roxbury, Massachusetts. As a young man in Boston, he became a...

National Representative of The Honorable Elijah Muhammad and the Nation of Islam IN THE NAME OF ALLAH, THE BENEFICENT, THE MERCIFUL. October 30, 2002 George W. Bush, President of the United States of America The White House 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W. Washington, D.C. 20500 As-Salaam Alaikum. (Peace Be Unto You) Dear President Bush, May this letter find you and your family well. I am writing this letter to once again appeal to you in the strongest way that you might heed my humble counsel and sincere warning to you. I am not your enemy, nor am I an enemy...

Cary, N. C.—How is it possible, half a century after the Supreme Court’s Brown decision, for respected, tenured, award-winning African-American professor Jean Cobb to lose benefits at a university she has taught at for more than three decades? “She is a Republican and an objective scholar who takes a dim view of the political correctness scourge, and of those who use the classroom to indoctrinate students into radical (Marxist/black separatist) politics,” her friend, Dr. Carey Stronach, said recently. “For this she should be applauded, but instead, it has been the undoing of her career.” Her political affiliation made sociology professor...

<p>The editor of the Nation of Islam's weekly newspaper has resigned in the wake of the publication of a story asserting that the family of Martin Luther King suspects that the Rev. Jesse Jackson was "complicit" in the 1968 assassination of the civil rights leader.</p>

Nation of Islam leader’s son jailed May 11, 2003  By Michael Puente / Post-Tribune staff writer VALPARAISO — The 44-year-old son of Nation of Islam leader Minister Louis Farrakhan was arrested by the Indiana State Police following a hit-and-run incident early Saturday afternoon. Nasir H. Farrakhan of the 4800 block of Woodlawn in Chicago was being held at the Porter County Jail here on probable cause for multiple charges resulting from the collision with another vehicle. The probable cause charges are: — Operating a vehicle while intoxicated. — Driving with a suspended license. — Leaving the scene of personal injury...

Louis Farrakhan's December 1, 2001 letter to President George Bush on the September 11, 2001 World Trade Center and Pentagon attacks and the American government's declared War on Terrorism.

<p>TCHULA — The real church is not a building made of stone and wood, it is within the hearts of those who believe in God, Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan said Sunday.</p> <p>"Nothing in here is more valuable than you. Nothing out there is more valuable than you," Farrakhan told about 1,000 people who attended the three-hour church dedication ceremony in cold, rainy weather. "You are the house of the living God."</p>

Who: Louis Farrakhan What: Press Conference to address Washington, D.C. sniper case When: Saturday, Oct. 26, 2002 at 3 p.m. (C.S.T.) (4 p.m. Eastern) Where: Mosque Maryam, 7351 Stony Island Ave., Chicago, Ill. CHICAGO (FinalCall.com)--The Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan will hold a press conference today to address the Washington, D.C., sniper case and the arrest of suspect John Allen Williams, a.k.a. John Allen Muhammad. The press conference will be held at 3 p.m. (C.S.T.) at Mosque Maryam, 7351 Stony Island Ave., Chicago, Ill. Tape delayed audio/video webcast will follow press conference. For more information, log on to FinalCall.com. Developing...

Out of the 19 Islamic terrorists that attacked America in 9/11, how many Iraqis?Hint-----ZERO Out of the thousands of Islamic militants arrested in the US and Europe, how many Iraqis?Hint----ZERO Where did the US discover there is a new El Quaida terrorist camp? Hint----Iran, not IraqWell, I am not the smartest man in the world, but the above facts should give me a hint on who should be my greatest enemy?

Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan speaks to demonstrators for reparations for slavery on the National Mall in Washington Saturday, Aug. 17, 2002. Hundreds of blacks rallied Saturday, saying it is long past time to compensate blacks for the ills of slavery. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)

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