Georgia’s Blackstone Academy in the spotlight
FCNNEWSSOURCE Students on the move in the community! COLLEGE PARK, Ga. (FinalCall.com) - The Blackstone Academy, located at 2888 West Point Rd. in College Park, Ga, is an educational institution servicing Pre-K through 12th grades, and promotes academic acceleration, positive self-esteem, peer role models and hands-on community service. This can be seen, and heard, through the various programs the school’s administrators–the...
America’s dichotomous stance on terrorism
ASKIAMSenior Correspondent Cuban ‘bomber’ seeking U.S. asylum was on CIA payroll (FCN, 03-24-2005) WASHINGTON (FinalCall.com) - There have been 47 years of constant “terrorist-like” activities going on in Cuba and against Cubans, and the United States government may have a hand in the terror with its harboring of one of the chief “terrorists”–Luis Posada Carriles. By contrast, five Cubans who opposed anti-Cuban...
Growing tide of voices raises the call for impeachment
ASKIAMSenior Correspondent Poll: Two-in-Five Americans Would Impeach Bush (AR Global Monitor, 05-10-2007)Web Video: Farrakhan calls for impeachment of entire Bush Administration (FCN, 04-25-2007) WASHINGTON (FinalCall.com) - The grassroots movement to impeach Pres. George W. Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney, and other high officials is gaining momentum nationally. On Capitol Hill Apr. 26, members of several anti-war groups even staged a noisy disruption...
Report suggests cancer deaths among Blacks is rising
Junk food diet linked to cancer in women (Daily Mail, 03-27-2007)Take a stand against cancer (FCN, 11-08-2006)Farrakhan survives prostate cancer, urges all men to get tested (FCN, 05-27-2003)Is there a ‘secret’ to health? (FCN, 04-22-2007) NEW YORK (FinalCall.com) - Lonnie Barton was 51 years old when he died of lung cancer in 2004. According to his sister, Bernadette Barton, 48,...
One in three Native American women suffers sexual assault
JIM.LOBE WASHINGTON (IPS/GIN) - Native American women are at least 2.5 times more likely to be sexually assaulted in their lifetimes as other women in the United States, according to a report released Apr. 25 by Amnesty International. At least one in three Indigenous women is raped or otherwise subjected to sexual violence during her lifetime, according to the 113-page...
Black men targeted for Genocide
ASKIAMSenior Correspondent Urban League report focuses on the Black male Black genocide: From the cradle to the grave (FCN, 12-22-2003)One on one with Dr. Frances Cress Welsing WASHINGTON (FinalCall.com) - The prospects are bleak. Genocide is no exaggeration. Incarceration, AIDS, unemployment and the school drop-out rate are all problems challenging Black people in America–Black males in particular–and according to this year's annual report...
D.C. residents’ voting rights compromised
ASKIAMSenior Correspondent Voting Rights Act campaign hits D.C. (FCN, 08-18-2005) WASHINGTON (FinalCall.com) - Residents of the nation's capital recently moved one step closer to voting equality with all other U.S. citizens, while on the same day, they took what many consider a step backwards. On Apr. 19, the House of Representatives voted 241-177 to approve a bill that would increase full...
California’s new secret death chamber
Death penalty: U.S. states widen scope for executions (FCN, 10-05-2006)Death Penalty Focus of California (Death Penalty Focus)Campaign to End the Death Penalty LOS ANGELES (FinalCall.com) - Politicians and death penalty opponents are outraged over revelation that the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) began construction on a new death chamber at San Quentin State Prison, without notifying...
Spelman student starts letter writing campaign to BET and TV One
“Dear Ms. Lee, when I heard about a letter writing campaign to BET, I knew I had to participate because I am disgusted with images of Black women in the media, particularly those provided by television and music videos. I can no longer tolerate the way women are portrayed and the disgusting way that BETperpetuates this behavior. “I will...
Corporate greed and private prisons
Using cheap prison labor to build profits Follow the Prison Money Trail ..to elected officials (In These Times, 09-04-2006)The Prison Industrial Complex: Crisis and Control (CorpWatch, 1999)Private Prisons for Dummies (Paul's Justice Page) LOS ANGELES (FinalCall.com) - The Prison Industrial Complex is a growing industry comprised of a number of American corporations which develop household and business products, but human...