Unity: Why is a full body workout best?
Nothing beats “good old-fashioned hard work.” However, in today's world, evil is made fair-seeming. Ease is the order of today. Whatever is “easier” is what we want to do. It takes work to improve our diet. It takes effort or work to lose weight. However, in order to truly reap the benefits of exercise, you have to...
Swastika painted outside Black lawmaker’s office
- WASHINGTON (FinalCall.com) - After a swastika was painted on a sign outside his office Aug. 4, a member of the Congressional Black Caucus from Georgia is afraid that the pitched, emotional battle over healthcare reform has become racially tinged. Some opponents of health care reform, he said, “are bringing (in) race–and ‘Negro' and ‘colored' and Obama” when contacting his...
Supreme Court Justice Sotomayor sworn in
- WASHINGTON (FinalCall.com) - Sonia Sotomayor became the Supreme Court's first Latina justice Aug. 8, pledging to defend the Constitution and administer impartial justice during a brief ceremony in the court's chambers. She became only the third woman to serve in the court's 220-year history. Justice Sotomayor took the second of two oaths of office from Chief Justice John Roberts...
Congressman convicted in corruption case
- WASHINGTON (FinalCall.com) - Former Congressional Black Caucus member William Jefferson (D-La.)–who was famously accused of hiding $90,000 in marked bills he was paid by a government informant in the freezer in his home, was convicted of corruption charges Aug. 5 in a courtroom in nearby Alexandria, Va. Jurors found that Mr. Jefferson used his congressional office as a criminal enterprise...
Failing grade for home loan modification program?
-Staff Writer- WASHINGTON (FinalCall.com) - While the Obama administration's first monthly Servicer Performance Report detailing the progress of the Making Home Affordable loan modification program claims rapid progress in a few short months, others contend the findings show a failing effort. “The report card issued by the Treasury Department Aug. 4, shows that financial companies deserve a failing...
Why is White Right attacking the first Black president?
CHARLENEM (FinalCall.com) - President Barack Obama recently met over beer with Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Sgt. James Crowley, hoping to diffuse tense debates over racial profiling and racial bias triggered by the arrest of the Harvard University scholar by the Cambridge, Mass., police department officer. Though that racially charged conversation may be over, vicious attacks on the first Black...
LAPD consent decree ends; what about racial profiling?
CHARLENEM LOS ANGELES (FinalCall.com) - A federal judge has lifted an eight-year consent decree on the Los Angeles Police Department, drawing various opinions on whether or not the department's monitoring ended too soon. On July 17, U.S. District Judge Gary Feess replaced the decree with a transition agreement, on the condition that the court keep jurisdiction over the agreement. In return, the...
Home foreclosures continue to rise
-Staff Writer- When John Robinson, a management consultant, got the pink slip six months ago he knew it was the beginning of the end of things as his family knew it. With his job gone and his wife home on maternity leave, he tried everything he could to get another job. “I'm still unemployed so when the foreclosure notice...
Census shows increased Black, Latino, youth vote
(FinalCall.com) - When Joaquin Patterson went to the polls last November it was the first time he had voted since turning 18, 12 years earlier. He was not alone. Huge numbers of Black, Hispanic and young voters added to the historical context of the 2008 presidential campaign with their largest increase in voters, according to a July 20...
Farrakhan reveals truth about the attacks on Michael Jackson, Black leadership
By Richard Muhammad -Editor-In-Chief- Michael Jackson” and how the public campaigns against the pop icon are linked to historical and ongoing attacks against Black leaders. In addition, Min. Farrakhan shared the spiritual dimensions of Mr. Jackson's appeal across lines of race, gender, ethnicity, sexual orientation and geography as a sign of the ultimate upliftment of Blacks and all of humanity through...