Hip hop give back
CHARLENEM Bay Area rapper announces $10,000 scholarship promotion Imagine being a father fighting foreclosure and trying to keep your family off the streets, a single mother trying to keep a roof over your children’s heads, or a college-bound youth with no funds for tuition or books in sight. You spend a fraction of your income to buy some music to...
Repression against U.S. political prisoners ongoing
NEW YORK (FinalCall.com) - A week after the Jericho Amnesty Movement held October rallies and workshops here to commemorate their 10th anniversary as a coalition dedicated to freeing political dissidents in U.S. prisons, there were charges that repression continues. (Part two in a two-part series) “More activism and support is needed in the campaign to free Mumia Abu-Jamal,” wrote...
Historic victory etched in American history
ASKIAMSenior Correspondent WASHINGTON - Elation. Euphoria. Tears of joy. Barack Hussein Obama was elected President of the United States Nov. 4, 2008. The date was etched among the most important in American history. When inaugurated on Jan. 20, 2009–one day after the commemoration of the Martin Luther King Jr. Holiday–Mr. Obama will become the first Black President. When major television networks declared that...
Cities seek solutions to end street violence
NEW YORK (FinalCall.com) - The Big Apple is one of several east coast cities grappling with a serious problem: Violence is up and community and political leaders are searching for answers to the growing crisis. The Consumer Affairs and Public Safety Committees of the New York City Council held a joint oversight hearing at City Hall Oct. 20 that focused...
Millions Unemployed
By Richard MuhammadContributing Editor (FinalCall.com) - In energetic stump speeches, presidential hopefuls Barack Obama and John McCain regularly declare America’s best days aren’t gone. Each promises to bring the country back to good jobs, solid wages and a greater sense that the future is bright. But will the problems with jobs and job creation be that easy to solve? Economists warned...
Top cop indicted on torture-related charges
CHICAGO (FinalCall.com) - In the past three decades hundreds of Black men have accused former Chicago Police Commander Jon Burge of torture, but in the end, his own words indicted him. FBI agents arrested Burge, 60, at his home in Apollo Beach, Fla., Oct. 21, on two counts of obstruction of justice and one count of perjury charges...
Farrakhan’s message resonates across religious, racial lines
CHARLENEM CHICAGO (FinalCall.com) - Muslims, Christians, Jews and believers in various faith traditions from around the globe converged on the Nation of Islam’s National Center to hear the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan launch a New Beginning. Between the renovated mosque, Muhammad University of Islam, a huge white tent on the grounds of the National Center Oct. 19 and overflow seats...
Problems with voters purged from election rolls
(FinalCall.com) - With significant increases in voter registrations around the country came startling news from the Brennan Center for Justice at the New York University School of Law that election officials across the country are routinely updating voter registrations rolls and removing millions of names through a process called purging that is shrouded in secrecy, prone to error...
Anti-Obama campaign gets nasty as election nears
ASKIAMSenior Correspondent WASHINGTON (FinalCall.com) - As Election Day drew closer and Democratic presidential nominee Sen. Barack Obama was ahead in many opinion polls, more and more incidents of veiled as well as not-so-hidden efforts to stoke religious fear and racial hatred popped up in and around the campaign of Republican nominee Sen. John McCain and among White voters. The attacks...
Million Man March mission, spirit live in D.C.
WASHINGTON (FinalCall.com) - For the third year in a row the Peaceoholics organized a month of atonement activities in celebration of the Million Man March with a March for Unity through the main street of the poorest community in the nation’s capital. It was a gathering with a message for youth, many of whom were only toddlers or preschoolers...