External hard drives
By Ernest J. Muhammad (FinalCall.com) - Have you ever lost an important file on your PC? It's a very painful experience emotionally, especially if you just spent the last three or four hours to create the file. Something like this only has to happen once before you start thinking about an alternative to storing files on the local hard drive of...
Task force hopes to offer answers, sense of peace to loved ones of missing, murdered Black females
CHICAGO—Miracle Boyd joined dozens of others recently for a march in the summer heat down Martin Luther King Jr. Drive shouting the names of missing and murdered Black women and girls in the city. Ms. Boyd, who is a member of the group Good Kids Mad City, had a very personal reason for joining the march. The name she shouted...
A demand for unfettered probe of New York police dept. shootings
, Staff Writer NEW YORK (FinalCall.com)–Rev. Al Sharpton has joined activists and family members of men shot by New York City police on Jan. 1 and 2 in asking for an independent investigation. Four people killed by police in the first two days of the New Year. "Four deaths in two days is enough cause to pause," Rev. Sharpton said...
Moves being made to protect cops, but what about the rest of us?
Protests and uproar around the country about police abuse and their lack of accountability had many people hoping something was going to be done to halt deaths and despair at the hands of America’s cops. Instead, the country is seeing the opposite take place. Instead of instituting better laws and enforcing guidelines to hold cops and law enforcement departments...
Making faith real
The Saviours' Day 2005 Webcast (FinalCall.com) - The “book” on American White supremacy committed against the slaves brought here from Africa has been written and it must be opened, the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan declared in his 2005 Saviours' Day address, promising that he has the courage to do it. The speech, delivered before 5,000 in attendance at Rev. Dr....
GOP repeatedly opposed infrastructure upgrades, now this Mississippi city has no safe water
As many as 180,000 people in Jackson, Mississippi will not have access to safe running water for the foreseeable future, state officials said on the night of Aug. 29—the latest manifestation of a longstanding crisis in which the city’s residents have been made to suffer the consequences of chronically underfunded infrastructure, compounded by a worsening climate emergency. “Do not drink...
Reactions to the Millions More Movement press conference
ASKIAM ‘I came here, not certain. I leave here, quite certain' Millions More Movement Press Conference Webcast (05-02-2005)Official site of the Millions More Movement Rock Newman, boxing promoter, former manager of former Heavyweight Boxing Champion Riddick BoweJoy, happiness, a feeling of a sense of a direction and a sense of community that may have never, ever existed before, amongst the most powerful...
Water testing and other services available for Chicago residents
CHICAGO—The water crisis in Jackson, Mississippi, has reignited concerns over the water quality in other cities around the country. In Chicago, residents are worried about the lead levels and what they can do to ensure their families have access to clean water. According to the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), there is no known safe level of lead a...
America: World’s No. 1 jailer
As prison populations grow, activists charge racism (FinalCall.com) - In its annual report, which was issued April 25, the United States Justice Department's Bureau of Justice Statistics said that nationally, 61 percent of prison and jail inmates were of “racial or ethnic minorities.” The study noted that 1,000 new individuals are incarcerated each week, although the nation's crime rate continues...
Documentary celebrates 40th anniversary of Michael Jackson’s ‘Thriller’
When the Grammy Awards ostensibly snubbed Michael Jackson’s groundbreaking 1979 album, “Off The Wall,” the then-fledgling “King of Pop” vowed that voters at the Recording Academy would not ignore what he would offer next. On November 30, 1982, just over three years later, Jackson released “Thriller,” which earned him a then record-breaking eight Grammy Awards, including “Album of the Year.” To commemorate the...