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Illinois governor willing to deploy National Guard to Chicago
by Starla Muhammad and Tariqah Muhammad The Final Call @TheFinalCall CHICAGO—Illinois Governor JB Pritzker said if asked, he would deploy the National Guard to the city of Chicago to combat violence. The governor’s comment was in response to a question about a statement from a political rival who called on the Democratic lawmaker to issue a disaster declaration in the city...
Wildfires grow bigger and strong winds, snowstorms hit Rockies
BEAVERCREEK, Ore.—Nearly all the dozens of people reported missing after a devastating blaze in southern Oregon have been accounted for, authorities said as crews battled wildfires that have killed at least 35 from California to Washington state. The flames up and down the West Coast have destroyed neighborhoods, leaving nothing but charred rubble and burned-out cars, forced tens...
Congressional hearing held on reparations bill
ASKIAMSenior Correspondent Congressional bill on reparations commission finally gets a hearing after 19 years of trying on Capitol Hill Restitution: Historic victory in corporate reparations lawsuit (FCN, 01-03-2007)The Movement for Reparations (FCN, 08-16-2002) WASHINGTON (FinalCall.com) - For the first time ever, the U.S. Congress officially studied the institution of slavery, its legacy, as well as U.S. efforts to address it and...
Second ndaba on reparations set for Mississippi
Ndaba: ‘A great sitting-down’ (FCN News, 08/09/2003) (FinalCall.com) - Preparations are underway in Jackson, Mississippi, for the second ndaba, or "great sitting down" on reparations set for October 4. A mass rally and town hall meeting at the auditorium of Jackson State University are in the works to culminate the day’s summit of leaders as a follow-up to the...
Open season on Blacks?
CHARLENEM and Brian Muhammad -Final Call Staffers- Hunter versus the hunted mentality seen across America (FinalCall.com) - From California to South Carolina, from Missouri to Detroit to New York, Blacks are being assaulted, shot and killed. As anger grows, protests rise, and frustrations build, people are asking, when and how will this end? Ever since Black people were brought to the shores...
Many Blacks unaware of the dangers of kidney disease
, Staff Writer (FinalCall.com) - For Stephanie L. Muhammad, the recent path to hospitalization was uneventful. One day she was fine, the next she lay hooked up to wires and tubes at Edwards Hospital in the Chicago area as her doctor told her she had chronic kidney disease–only one of her kidneys was functioning and that one at ten...
Students not soldiers
Increasing military recruitment tactics target Black, Latino youth Military recruitment down: Blacks silently protest war (FCN, 04-06-2005)Army recruiters: No Latino left behind (FCN, 11-24-2004) LOS ANGELES (FinalCall.com) - President George Bush’s recent veto of a bill that would provide for emergency spending and a withdrawal deadline from the Iraq war has heightened peace activists’ concerns that a prolonged stay...
Short-term memory aids Schwarzenegger victory
LOS ANGELES (FinalCall.com) - When California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger refused clemency last December to Stanley “Tookie” Williams, death penalty opponents and grassroots activists vowed to remember this and repay him at the polls. But both Mr. Williams and the death penalty hovered under the radar as Gov. Schwarzenegger took California for a second term. But his seemingly...
Chicago families impacted by police violence hold news conference
CHICAGO—Chicago families whose loved ones were killed by Chicago police or died in police custody, held a news conference outside of the Chicago Police headquarters on Feb. 1. Several mothers whose sons were killed unjustly by the police wept and stated their hurt and frustrations about the ongoing police killings across the nation. Panzy Edwards, the mother of 15-year-old Dakota Bright,...
Remembering and honoring the Black Solidarity Day movement of Dr. Carlos Russell
by Daleel Jabir Muhammad BROOKLYN, New York— The December 12th Movement recently held its Black Unity Rally to commemorate the 54th anniversary of Black Solidarity Day in Brooklyn, New York. The theme was “Resistance and Reparations Now!” In the early days of the Black Power Movement, there were Black leaders, musicians, and elected officials who championed the cause for Black liberation....