Obama marches toward White House
ASKIAMSenior Correspondent Obama wins Wisconsin, Clinton has one last chance (Reuters, 02-19-2008)FCN Editorial - Is America’s attitude changing? (Reuters, 01-14-2008) WASHINGTON (FinalCall.com) - Sen. Barack Obama continued his run for the White House with victories in Maine, Louisiana, Nebraska, Washington, and the U.S. Virgin Islands. The wins over the Feb. 9 weekend gave him a narrow lead in “pledged delegates” from caucuses...
Black buying power to reach $1.1 trillion by 2012
FCNNEWSSOURCE Ending ‘Leakage’ In Black America (FCN Perspective, 12-16-2007) NEW YORK (FinalCall.com) - A new report from Packaged Facts, “The African American Market in the U.S.,” forecasts that the buying power of 39 million Blacks will hit $1.1 trillion by 2012. According to the report, there are 2.4 million affluent Black households with incomes of $75,000 or more. This...
Oh Canada! Let us stay, say U.S. war resisters
No refuge for U.S. war resisters in Canada (FCN, 12-17-2007) WASHINGTON (FinalCall.com) - In the ’60s and ’70s, Canada was a refuge for war resisters and conscientious objectors during the Vietnam War. Iraq war resistors want the same reception and protested at Canadian consulates from coast to coast as part of Courage To Resist’s “Dear Canada: Let Them Stay”...
Defender of controversial clients tries to avoid prison
One the web: Lynnestewart.org NEW YORK (FinalCall.com) - They call her “Mother Courage.” A 69-year-old civil libertarian and activist lawyer, Lynne Stewart was arrested and disbarred in 2002, when the government accused her of “providing material support” to terrorists in Egypt, and defrauding the U.S. government. A federal court found her guilty of the charges in 2005 and the next...
National movement confronts AIDS epidemic
Congressional Black Caucus calls for national AIDS plan (FCN, 10-22-2007) LOS ANGELES (FinalCall.com) - AIDS activists, civil rights leaders, celebrities and organizations launched National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day Feb. 7 with press conferences, free testing, education and awareness rallies and media campaigns across America in an effort to stop the spread of AIDS within the Black community. Already high...
New York town mourns young Black police officer
Study documents tolerance for rogue officers in Black, Latino neighborhoods (FCN, 12-11-2007)End police brutality and mob attacks (FCN, 12-11-2007)Black officer gunned down by Chicago police (FCN, 04-26-2005) (FinalCall.com) - Police officer Christopher Ridley, 23, a member of the Mount Vernon, New York Police Department, was laid to rest on Feb. 1, another victim of a police shooting. Officer Ridley was shot...
Pressure forces changes on BET website
Protestors picket home of BET president (FCN, 10-26-2007)What’s behind BET's American Gangster? (FCN, 12-31-2007) WASHINGTON (FinalCall.com) - Opponents of Viacom-owned Black Entertainment Television programming and web offerings have taken their fight to advertisers. While various groups and individuals have protested BET’s “soft porn” programming with letter writing campaigns, marches in front of the homes of key Viacom executives in New...
Black women major force in 2008 election
Black voters made the difference in 2006 election (12-03-2006) WASHINGTON (FinalCall.com) - Black women voters are getting attention like never before. Is it because they’re Black and a Black man’s running or is it because they’re female and a woman’s running? Or is it simply a case of numbers? “Unmarried women are the fastest growing, large demographic and African American...
Project Modesty Contest comes to Saviour’s Day
Saviours' Day 2008 (Official Website) The winner of the Second Annual Project Modesty Contest will be announced at the 2008 Saviour’s Day Fashion Show in Chicago, Ill. Promising youth designers still have time to submit their designs for consideration. This year’s deadline is February 15, 2008. “Project Modesty is my solution to the need for designs to dress our children...
National Policy Alliance crafts Black political agenda
Institutionalization of the Black Agenda: The Politics of Adam Clayton Powell Jr. (FCN, 10-12-2003) WASHINGTON (FinalCall.com) - The National Policy Alliance (NPA) brought its biennial conference to the nation’s capital to discuss and create a Black agenda to put before the White House, Congress and the presidential candidates. “We want to put together a plan or blueprint for Black America...