Jamaican PM: ‘Together, we can make it.’
WASHINGTON (FinalCall.com) - Politics in Jamaica has a new face, a female face. The Honorable Portia Lucretia Simpson Miller was elected Feb. 26, 2006 as the first female prime minister of the Caribbean nation. She made her first official visit to the United States on June 13, to a standing room-only crowd at the Ronald Reagan building. “I am...
House postpones Voting Rights Act renewal vote
Ron Walters: Why Blacks Don't Vote Republican (Chicago Defender, 07-05-2006) WASHINGTON (FinalCall.com) - House Republican leaders postponed a vote on renewing the 1965 Voting Rights Act June 21. That same week, the Republican-controlled Senate refused to raise the minimum wage above $5.15 per hour, and the Republican-dominated House repealed much of the estate tax, on inheritances as large as...
Chicago area youth programs tackle negative images of boys
CHICAGO (FinalCall.com) - “Every child is the creation of God–and God does not make mistakes,” declared Father George Clements to the applause that punctuated his concluding remark of his keynote of a VIP reception of city officials, community activists, youth and artists focused on “Countering the Negative Images of Black Men and Boys.” In the intimate foyer gallery hall...
Gang ceasefire agreement launched in Los Angeles
LOS ANGELES (FinalCall.com) - Can you change the course of a historic, deadly path that is prophesied? If so, then how, especially if that path is all that you have ever known? Where do you begin when bloodshed has infiltrated bloodlines? How do you stop the killing? These questions and more engulf the creation and purpose of...
Is Haditha massacre a sign that U.S. troops hate Iraqis?
U.S. tale of Iraqis being massacred marred Memorial Day (FCN, 06-12-2006) WASHINGTON (FinalCall.com) - As U.S. military leaders engage in political “damage control” after the Pentagon admitted that Marines killed 24 civilians in Haditha–including a 66-year-old woman and a 4-year-old boy–an Iraqi doctor is warning there are many similar stories which have not yet been told. In Haditha, according Dr....
U.S. image abroad takes a new turn south, says Pew survey
JIM.LOBE Is Haditha massacre a sign that U.S. troops hate Iraqis? (FCN, 06-29-2006)How the U.S. Government destabilized foreign governments (FCN, 06-21-2006) WASHINGTON, (IPS/GIN) - Three years after the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq, the image of the United States in Europe and the Islamic world has resumed its post-war slide, according to the latest in a series of surveys of public...
Hip hop group rings NASDAQ bell
FCNNEWSSOURCE NEW YORK (FinalCall.com) - The Hip Hop Summit Action Network (HSAN) celebrated its fifth anniversary on June 14 by ringing the opening bell of the NASDAQ Stock Market. HSAN co-founders, chairman Russell Simmons and president and CEO Dr. Benjamin Chavis participated in the ceremony. The NASDAQ Stock Market is the largest electronic stock market in the United States. “On...
Think outside the gym
When my sister called me asking for some suggestions for a health presentation she needed to conduct outside of the wellness center where she works, the above title is one of the first things I said to her. Fitness trainers are not always allowed the comfort of only training a person in the gym. We have to be...
September 11, 2001: Fact and fiction According to Loose Change Documentary
FCNNEWSSOURCE You Decide: Watch Loose Change 2nd Edition Online The Pentagon (FinalCall.com) - The skills of the hijacking pilot are examined. The building damage, debris and remains of the crash site are questioned as seemingly inconsistent with a 757 plane. A cursory scientific and sometimes sarcastic study of the temperatures of jet fuel and possible vaporization of the 757 plane...
U.S. military struggles with suicides, battlefield breakdowns and mental health care
Casualties in Iraq; The Human Cost of Occupation (Antiwar.com)Life in ‘liberated’ Iraq a disaster, UN report says (FCN, 06-01-2005)Military recruitment down: Blacks silently protest war (FCN, 04-06-2005)Neo-Cons and the Motive for Iraq War (Minister Louis Farrakhan, 05-03-2004) WASHINGTON (FinalCall.com) - In addition to a high rate of suicides among U.S. troops, brutal atrocities they are now accused of committing in Iraq...