U.S. police militarization heightens tensions, problems
By Charlene Muhammad CHARLENEM Citizens of Ferguson, Missouri awakened to a scenario similar to residents in some major U.S. cities: a local police force armed...
We want justice for Eric Garner
Related News: Chokeholds a national concern, warn activists (FCN, 08-11-2014) NEW YORK - On Aug. 14, there were reportedly vigils in 90 U.S. cities, as part...
Chokeholds a national concern, warn activists
NEW YORK - Community activists and Black law enforcement groups are speaking out against police use of the chokehold around the country after the...
Lawsuit names officer in highway police beating
By Charlene Muhammad CHARLENEM ‘We refuse to let the system fail her again' LOS ANGELES - Lawyers for 51-year-old Marlene Pinnock have amended her civil rights...
#Save Our Girls USA: Healing, empowerment and survival
By Charlene Muhammad CHARLENEM Women who escaped ‘the life' work to help others and prevent new victims LOS ANGELES (FinalCall.com) - When Audrey Morrissey tells teenage girls to...
Trayvon Martin family marks one-year anniversary of verdict working for peace, healing
By Charlene Muhammad CHARLENEM LOS ANGELES (FinalCall.com) - Trayvon Martin's mother, father, their attorneys, celebrities, community leaders, and youth marked the one-year anniversary of the...
Highway patrol sued over Calif. freeway beating
By Charlene Muhammad CHARLENEM LOS ANGELES - Attorneys for the Black woman beaten by a CHP officer have filed a federal civil lawsuit for unspecified...
Anger, protests and vows not to forget Eric Garner’s death in NYC Police custody
STATEN ISLAND, New York (FinalCall.com) - Six employees–two police officers and four Emergency Medical Technicians–were removed from street duties after the death of...
Los Angeles gets spotlight in videotaped highway police beating of Black woman
By Charlene Muhammad CHARLENEM Related news: ‘Beating grandmothers in the street' One-on-One Interivew: ‘That video was what the video caught' LOS ANGELES (FinalCall.com) - There is no sound...
Mean streets or mean decisions?
By Saeed Shabazz -Staff Writer- Political, social choices impact violence suffered by children in New York, say advocates NEW YORK (FinalCall.com) - People literally danced in the streets...