In wake of acquitals, anger simmers New York
NEW YORK (FinalCall.com) - When the word of Justice Arthur Cooperman’s “not guilty” verdict reached the crowd outside the Queens Supreme Court, shouts of “No! No! No!” erupted immediately. The family of Sean Bell, along with the two wounded friends of the slain father of two little girls, and the Rev. Al Sharpton quietly walked own Queens Boulevard–the media...
Rev. Wright: Media coverage was attack on the Black church
The Attack on Black Theology (FCN, 04-20-2008) WASHINGTON (FinalCall.com) - An “unashamedly Black” and “unapologetically Christian,” Rev. Dr. Jeremiah A. Wright kicked off the opening of the two-day Samuel DeWitt Proctor Conference April 28 at the National Press Club. Before a standing room only audience filled with conference attendees and representatives of media outlets, and a live televised audience via...
No end to demonization of Obama?
ASKIAMSenior Correspondent Is Clinton setting Obama up to lose general election? (FCN, 04-25-2008)Blackening Barack Obama (FCN, 04-01-2008) WASHINGTON (FinalCall.com) - The demonization of Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.)–who has gone from once being labeled “not Black enough” to earn the support of Black voters–to being depicted for White voters as being “too Black,” seems destined to continue all the way to the...
Rev. Jackson shines a light on Haiti crisis
Contributing Writer Rising food prices increase Haiti’s agony (FCN, 04-23-2008) CHICAGO (FinalCall.com) - The Rev. Jesse Jackson left for Haiti April 26 to tour the debt-ridden nation gripped in a food crisis. With ministers and Haitian nationals as part of his delegation, he also hoped the media would follow. “Haiti is out of sight and out of mind,” Rev. Jackson told...
U.S. military accepts more ex-felons
Black military recruits on the decline (FCN, 07-19-2007)FCN Editorial: Will you answer the call of the military? (FCN, 07-18-2004) WASHINGTON (FinalCall.com) - The few, the strong, the brave and some convicted felons could well describe today’s Marine Corps. In the Army, more convicted felons can be all they can be too, as all branches of the military relaxed their...
Baltimore sludge ‘Tuskegee’ experiment?
ASKIAMSenior Correspondent Environmental racism (Wikipedia) WASHINGTON (FinalCall.com) - Maryland environmental and civil rights leaders condemned federally funded studies to find a cheap way to clean up lead-contaminated soil that put fertilizer made from treated human and industrial waste on the lawns of East Baltimore row houses and a vacant lot near a school in East St. Louis, Ill. All of the...
Could the global food crisis impact America?
NEW YORK (FinalCall.com) - United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon, in a recent meeting here with Bretton Woods Institution organizations, called for immediate and long-term measures to tackle a growing global food crisis. “The rapidly escalating crisis of food availability has reached emergency proportions,” Secretary-General Ban said April 14. He was referring to food riots taking place in different parts of...
Divorce costs taxpayers $112 billion a year: study
The Basis of Proper Male/Female Relationships (Min. Louis Farrakhan) WASHINGTON (FinalCall.com) - Divorce and out of wedlock childbearing have become so commonplace in the Black community that when you ask someone what the real cost of family fragmentation is the answer is a mother lode of emotions from pain and frustration to bravado, “I can do bad by myself.” The...
Former death row inmate still fights death penalty
CHICAGO (FinalCall.com) - Delbert Lee Tibbs always has been against the death penalty, but ever since he was forced to serve three years on Florida’s death row for a crime he did not commit, eliminating the death penalty has become his life’s mission. “If you’re Black and grew up in America, you know nothing else has been applied...
Campaign battles corporate-sponsored smut
(FinalCall.com) - A new study indicates daytime music video programming markets adult-themed content to children at alarming rates. Children were exposed to adult content every 38 seconds through some programs, the study found. The Parents Television Council compiled “The Rap on Rap: A Content Analysis of BET and MTV’s Daytime Music Video Programming” for the Enough Is Enough...