Home grown terror law threatens Muslims, further erodes rights for Americans
Homeland Security contracts for vast new detention camps (FCN, 02-16-2006)Neo-con extermists push internment for American Muslims (FCN, 02-18-2005)The Devil and Daniel Pipes (In These Times, 09-08-2003)Anti terror laws produce new crisis for Black leadership (FCN, 12-25-2001) LOS ANGELES (FinalCall.com) - The Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) recently scrapped a plan to map Southern California Muslims and their communities...
Thousands march against hate crimes in D.C.
ASKIAMSenior Correspondent West Virginia rallies against hate crimes (FCN, 11-14-2007)Hate crimes sweep Mid-Atlantic region (FCN, 10-06-2007)Anti-immigrant sentiment grows into nationwide hate crimes (FCN, 03-16-2006) WASHINGTON (FinalCall.com) - Angry about the rash of racist hate-crimes perpetrated against them in recent months as well as several recent incidents of police brutality, and frustrated over the inadequate response from government law enforcement agencies, more...
Activists blast public housing demolition
New Bush housing plan would mean more cuts for the poor (FCN, 06-13-2005)Cutbacks to Section 8 housing threaten increased homelessness (FCN, 05-02-2004) NEW YORK (FinalCall.com) - Billed as a protest against demolition of public housing in New Orleans, a demonstration here touched on the destruction of public housing across the nation. Protestors also turned out in Chicago, Los Angeles, the...
Police violence escalates in New York
It was like dialing M for murder' Sean Bell: Tip of iceberg in NYC police murder culture (FCN, 04-16-2007) NEW YORK (FinalCall.com) - “We demand that policing which only serves to brutalize and terrorize communities of color must stop,” said an internet message from Peoples' Justice for Community Control and Police Accountability, a grassroots coalition of anti-police brutality organizations. The message...
Economic mobility leaves Blacks behind
Staff Write Churches should teach Black economics to save our communities (FCN, 10-10-2003) (FinalCall.com) - Blacks continue to lose economic ground, according to a Pew Charitable Trusts report on economic mobility released Nov. 13. Family income in the Black community is no longer a predicator of children's later earnings. The report found an alarming number of Blacks born into the...
Former D.C. mayor still under fire
WASHINGTON (FinalCall.com) - While many in the nation's capital have forgiven former Mayor Marion Barry for his drug problem–he's now the Ward 8 Councilman–Washington Post writer Tim Page, won't let him forget. The Pulitzer Prize winning writer, responded several weeks ago to an unsolicited press release from Andre Johnson, an aide of Councilman Barry, with these words: “Must we...
Building an oasis in a food desert
FCNNEWSSOURCE Residents of Chicago’s Englewood neighborhood are seeing something different, produce growing in the city through an urban farming program. Growing Home, a six-year-old certified organic agricultural business with a social mission of providing transitional employment for homeless and low-income adults, held the groundbreaking Nov. 14 and invited the media and community out to see what progress had been...
Military recruiters target Black youth
ASKIAMSenior Correspondent 58 percent drop in young Black enlistees Black military recruits on the decline (FCN, 07-19-2007)Military recruitment down: Blacks silently protest war (FCN, 04-06-2005)Army recruiters: No Latino left behind (FCN, 11-24-2004)FCN Editorial: Will you answer the call of the military? (FCN, 07-18-2004) WASHINGTON (FinalCall.com) - In the face of a huge drop in Black recruitment, the U.S. military is waging a...
Report: Autism rates soar
Early education helps autistic children (FCN, 03-02-2003)TheAutismResource.com (Autism Directory) (FinalCall.com) - On Oct. 28, 2007, the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan, during a live address delivered from Mosque Maryam in Chicago, Ill. told the country that his research team had discovered there were soaring rates of autism due to vaccines. The following day Oct. 29, the American Academy of Pediatrics...
Chemical labs putting the American people in harms way
(FinalCall.com) - American labs handling the world’s deadliest germs and toxins have experienced more than 100 accidents and missing shipments since 2003, and the number is increasing as more labs do the work, according to a Government Accountability Organization (GAO) report released during the first week of October. In an Associated Press review of confidential reports submitted to federal regulators,...