An L.A. school district turns to intervention pilot program to help save students
By Charlene Muhammad CHARLENEM LOS ANGELES (FinalCall.com) - An elementary school is turning to a grassroots self-improvement mentoring program to help troubled youth after eight...
Decades of diplomatic wrangling coming to an end in Cuba/U.S. relations?
Cuba: A history of resistance and U.S. meddling (FCN, 12-26-2014) UNITED NATIONS (FinalCall.com) - “I'd like to thank President Barack Obama of the United States...
Finally the International Decade for African Descendants begins
By Saeed Shabazz -Staff Writer- UNITED NATIONS - People of African descent still face racism in every nation, region and continent of the world, according to the...
Release of Senate torture report insufficient, say rights group
JIM.LOBE WASHINGTON - The Senate Intelligence Committees release of its long-awaited report on the torture by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) of detainees in...
National outrage and resistance as protests grow and continue
By Charlene Muhammad CHARLENEM (FinalCall.com) - Across the country people incensed over non-indictments in the police shooting of Michael Brown, Jr. in Ferguson, Mo. and the chokehold...
Activists: Africans and Blacks from Caribbean biggest losers in immigration fight
Activists are arguing that President Barack Obama's executive action announced in November granting deportation relief to millions who have entered the United States illegally...
Crack, The CIA And Black America’s Drug Crisis
Kill the Messenger movie rekindles interest and outrage over Central Intelligence Agency ties to drug trafficking and the 1980s crack cocaine epidemic that devastated...
Celebrating the life and the gift of Mayor Marion Barry
ASKIAM and Nisa Islam Muhammad Final Call Staffers WASHINGTON (FinalCall.com) - After a joyous, but dignified memorial service attended by thousands of Washingtonians Marion S. Barry,...
No indictment, no faith in justice system
By Saeed Shabazz -Staff Writer- STATEN ISLAND, New York (FinalCall.com) - Even former President George W. Bush called a Staten Island grand jury's decision not to indict...
Racial insensitivity and nooses in the Bay Area
By Charlene Muhammad CHARLENEM Black employees charge company with negligence in dealing with workplace racial harassment SAN FRANCISCO - Daryle Washington, a Black sanitation worker, has filed a...