The Final Call
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The Final Call is a newspaper published in Chicago. It was founded in 1979 by Louis Farrakhan and serves as the official newspaper of the Nation of Islam.
[edit] History
The original version of The Final Call was published by Nation of Islam Founder Elijah Muhammad in the 1930s as the Final Call to Islam. This small newspaper evolved into the Muhammad Speaks Newspaper in the 1960s and attracted a circulation of 900,000 per week, with monthly circulation of 2.5 million. Today, the weekly Final Call serves a readership of diverse economic and educational backgrounds and is distributed in North America, Canada, Europe, Africa and the Caribbean. The current Editor-in-Chief of the Final Call is Min. Abdul Arif Muhammad, esq., a brother of Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity, Inc. [1]

