Blacks are still stopped, targeted more by cops
HOUSTON (FinalCall.com) - According to the Houston Police Department's most recent study of its racial profiling data, Black residents were pulled over more than any other race in 2010. “I'm definitely not surprised by this report. These White cops, and even some Black ones, always pulling me over even though my car's tags are not expired, I don't have warrants...
Will cuts ‘ax’ teen, neighborhood programs?
CHICAGO (FinalCall.com) - As summer approaches and schools prepare to let out, proposed funding cuts for two Illinois programs geared toward helping teens have community activists concerned that an increase in youth violence could be the result. Safety Net Works and Neighborhood Recovery Initiative are programs that provide jobs, mentoring as well as youth and adult leadership development services in...
Worries over mandate to reduce prison population
CHARLENEM LOS ANGELES (FinalCall.com) - A U.S. Supreme Court order for California to reduce overcrowding in its prisons by 33,000 inmates over the next two years is long overdue but the lack of jobs and resources in communities awaiting them could have a devastating outcome, ex-offender advocates say. The court's 5-4 decision issued May 23 has put California and the rest...
Get Fit to be a True Beauty
(FinalCall.com) - A few years ago, my daughter and I attended a Hip-Hop summit at North Carolina A & T University in Greensboro, North Carolina. My daughter was so excited to meet Rocsi from BET's 106 and Park. She thought Rocsi was so pretty and she later described her as a “beautiful person” because Rocsi was so...
Education conference focuses on males
CHICAGO (FinalCall.com) - Effective schools for the education, cultivation and development of Black boys must have a creative environment, offer discipline and teachers fueled with a passion to motivate students. These points among others were major themes discussed at the Black Star Project's National Conference on Educating Black Males. Over 250 predominately Black, educators, parents, and school administrators from around the...
Study: Black colleges payoff for Black students
-Staff Writer- WASHINGTON (FinalCall.com) - To attend an Historically Black College and University (HBCU) or not is the question many Black high school students face every year. New research from Morehouse College economist Gregory N. Price and two fellow economists from Howard University, William Spriggs and Omari H. Swinton, finds graduates of HBCUs do better in the labor market long...
Farrakhan: A divine alert, call to action in Harlem
HARLEM (FinalCall.com) - A beaming Minister Louis Farrakhan was welcomed with a standing ovation upon his arrival at the historic Salem United Methodist Church here May 28 to deliver a message to over 500 spiritual leaders from around the East Coast. It was a follow-up to a message he delivered two-weeks prior also to those affiliated with the American Clergy...
Farrakhan delivers a warning and offers a healing for spiritual leaders and humanity
CHICAGO (FinalCall.com) - The Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan delivered words of warning to spiritual leaders and offered a healing for humanity in a message delivered at the American Clergy Leadership Conference's prayer breakfast here May 17. Reflecting on the deadly weather that has struck America over the past year, the Minister said he has a duty from God to warn...
President Obama grapples with Middle East issues
- WASHINGTON (FinalCall.com) - In what was billed as a reprise of his 2009 Cairo-speech to the Muslim world, President Barack Obama attempted to lay down a new marker for U.S. Middle East policy at the State Department May 19. This time his address was intended to reflect the changes in the region in light of uprisings this year in Muslim...
Sisters still struggle: Looking at some of today’s challenges for Black women
CHARLENEM Looking at some of today's challenges for Black women (FinalCall.com) - There are some powerful, national images of Black women as successful, accomplished and having arrived but national activists say Black women in America still struggle when it comes to core areas of life, like economics and educating their children. Women are bearing the brunt of America's economic recession and there...