Anti-police brutality activist arrested
NEW YORK (FinalCall.com) - Juanita Young has been both a local and national voice against police brutality, so her supporters say they are not surprised that she was recently arrested. On Nov. 26, the outspoken mother of five called an ambulance for one of her daughters. The police arrived first and reportedly Ms. Young would not let them in. News...
The benefits of eating to live
In 1971, when the Honorable Elijah Muhammad wrote in the Nation of Islam’s newspaper, Muhammad Speaks, an article entitled, “How To Eat to Live: One Meal A Day,” many doctors and researchers brushed it off as mere religious dogma. Decades later, research bears witness to what eventually became the book series, “How to Eat to Live.” According to a University...
Black leaders issue new strategy to stop AIDS crisis in Black community
FCNNEWSSOURCE Can we reverse the AIDS epidemic? (FCN, 11-08-2006) WASHINGTON (FinalCall.com) - Leading Black lawmakers, civil rights leaders and medical experts called on the federal government Nov. 16 to adopt and implement a new blueprint to address the HIV/AIDS crisis in the Black community. The plan is outlined in a new report, “African Americans, Health Disparities and HIV/AIDS: Recommendations for Confronting...
Grieving widow calls for full investigation in husband’s death
WASHINGTON (FinalCall.com) - The horror surrounding the October 13 death of music producer Richard “Scotty Beats” Brown was magnified for the family when the two 9-1-1 workers involved were only disciplined with four-day suspensions without pay and the supervisor received a written reprimand. “An innocent man is dead because someone didn’t do their job,” Mrs. Danielle Steele Brown charged...
Health scientists push to curb the poisons among us
/GIN PARIS (IPS/GIN) - A group of scientists, including several Nobel laureates in medicine, is urging the industrialized world to slash chemical pollution to protect human health. In the so-called Paris Appeal presented in the French capital earlier in November, the scientists call for “banning all products that are certainly or probably carcinogenic as specified by competent international scientific...
Prison Reform Inc. forum is step toward ex-offender movement
By Richard Muhammad CHICAGO (FinalCall.com) - Ex-offenders, their family members and Chicago-area groups tackling employment and other ex-offender issues will gather Dec. 2 at the Salaam Restaurant to voice concerns, hear about ongoing work by individuals and organizations, and discuss ways to effectively organize to overcome persistent challenges to successful re-entry. The forum is sponsored by Prison Reform Inc. and its...
Democrats control Congress: Will it help the masses?
The True Role of Government (by Minister Louis Farrakhan) WASHINGTON (FinalCall.com) - Several Black members of Congress are poised to take control of a handful of important leadership positions, concentrating unprecedented power in the hands of Blacks. The areas of oversight and legislative authority will include everything from the criminal justice system to the stock exchange. Will their...
Will Congress ‘change the course in Iraq’?
Elections are over, but the war is not IRAQ: Hope fades as violence increases (FCN, 12-04-2006)New consensus emerges on Iraq–we were wrong (FCN, 11-07-2006)Life in ‘liberated’ Iraq a disaster, UN report says (FCN, 06-01-2005)Minister Louis Farrakhan's letter to President George W. Bush Re: Iraq (NOI.org, 12-01-2001) NEW YORK (FinalCall.com) - Now that the Democratic Party has gained control of the U.S. Congress...
Short-term memory aids Schwarzenegger victory
LOS ANGELES (FinalCall.com) - When California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger refused clemency last December to Stanley “Tookie” Williams, death penalty opponents and grassroots activists vowed to remember this and repay him at the polls. But both Mr. Williams and the death penalty hovered under the radar as Gov. Schwarzenegger took California for a second term. But his seemingly...
Belafonte salutes ex-offenders
No second chances? Legal barriers frustrate ex-offenders (FCN, 02-11-2004) WASHINGTON (FinalCall.com) - Singer-actor and human rights activist Harry Belafonte, D.C. government officials, entertainers, sports personalities, and radio and television celebrities all came together to help “increase the peace” and salute dozens of rehabilitated ex-offenders Nov. 3. The “prison-industrial-complex” was designed for Black men in particular, Mr. Belafonte told the Third...