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Military recruiters wooing underage youth

Military recruiters wooing underage youth,  activists condemn efforts   (FinalCall.com) - Tashawna Parker, 18, just graduated from Kenwood Academy on Chicago's south side. She can't wait to start classes at Northwestern University, where she will double-major in International Studies and Japanese Culture. But before she heads off to college, Ms. Parker plans on spending the summer working with the National...

From recruiting to rape?

CHARLENEM Anti-war advocates aren't surprised by shocking abuse charges LOS ANGELES (FinalCall.com) - Prosecutors have set a $1 million bail for a U.S. Marine charged with pimping, kidnapping, and intending to rape a 14-year-old girl. Reports indicate that Staff Sgt. Bryan Damone Cunningham, of San Pedro, California was previously honored three times for good conduct. Military watch groups say the incident presents an...

Tears for slain officer and demands for justice

NEW YORK (FinalCall.com) - The streets outside of Our Lady of Victory Roman Catholic Church in the heart of Brooklyn's Bedford Stuyvesant neighborhood were packed with residents and police officers bidding farewell to a 25-year-old police officer, who died a week earlier on a Harlem street as a result of friendly fire. “Omar Edwards will be remembered as a team...

Memories of a son and a quest for justice

(FinalCall.com) - It has been one-year-and two- months since Stanley Ridley learned that a Westchester, N.Y., grand jury would not indict four police officers accused in the killing of his son, police officer Christopher Ridley. On Jan. 25, 2008, Off. Ridley, 23, with one year of service on the Mt. Vernon Police Department was visiting nearby White Plains, N.Y....

Obama address brings praise, hope for new U.S. policies

ASKIAMSenior Correspondent WASHINGTON (FinalCall.com) - After eight years of open hostility, warfare and deteriorating relations between Muslims throughout the world and the American people, a President of the United States called for a “new beginning”–a rebirth–of friendship and mutual respect between America and the Muslim world. “I've come here to Cairo to seek a new beginning between the United States and Muslims...

New Yorkers outraged over killing of Black officer

NEW YORK (FinalCall.com) - Chanting “Justice for Omar!” 200 protestors marched arm-in-arm from the National Action Network's House of Justice on West 135th St. in Harlem to 125th St. and Second Avenue, the place where a 25-year-old Black police officer lost his life on the night of May 28. “We will stand here for a silent moment in memory of this...

Surviving the summer

CHARLENEM Communities must act now to keep youth safe and reduce violence LOS ANGELES (FinalCall.com) - Summer kicks off in just a few weeks, bringing backyard barbeques, beach parties, and usually an increase in gangrelated and youth violence. As police statistics and dozens of recent murders already indicate, many aren't waiting for summer's official June 21 start date to set off the...

Skepticism about dubious plot in New York

NEWBURGH, N.Y. - “I am very concerned that the hard work of building bridges here in Newburgh over the last quarter of a century will now be dismissed, because of the actions of a convicted felon,” said Imam Salahuddin Muhammad, who heads Masjid al-Ikhlas, in this city of 28,000 some 60 miles from Manhattan. The “felon” referred to is an...

Wrongly convicted ‘Central Park 5’ seek compensation

NEW YORK (FinalCall.com) - It has been 20 years since the brutal rape of a White female jogger in New York City's Central Park. But supporters of five young Black and Latino men wrongly convicted and jailed for the crime, say it is time to close a chapter that still stains the racial fabric of the city. Community activist Alton...

Will ‘perfect storm’ of problems doom Black radio?

NEW YORK (FinalCall.com)  - Activists and advocates recently failed to stop movement on a congressional bill related to the radio industry. With Michigan Democrat John Conyers' success bringing the legislation, “H.R. 848, The Performance Rights Act,” out of committee and a step closer to congressional vote, Black station owners and their defenders say the bill will help push the already...