L.A. Mother’s Day highlights youth violence and incarceration
CHARLENEM LOS ANGELES (FinalCall.com) - Charlotte Jordan believes in activism. She schools over 200 troubled children rejected by the local school district. She feeds hungry neighbors. She fights for books in schools and computer literacy. But the murders of two of her three children–one, a daughter, shot 15 times with an assault rifle–launched her into a sphere of activism that...
Paranoia about Muslims lands two teens in federal detention
FCN Editorial: Anti-Islam rhetoric: Moving from the unjust to the absurd (06-29-2004)The Real Fifth Column in America (FCN, 08-14-2002) NEW YORK (FinalCall.com) - Muslim and human rights activist Jafar Siddiqui, of Lynwood, Washington, believes that Muslims are targets of a “paranoid” United States government. That, he said, is the only logical explanation for locking up two 16-year-old New York City...
Farrakhan: ‘Pain’ caused Millions More Movement
Official site of the Millions More Movement (MillionsMoreMovement.com)The Launch of the Millions More Movement (FCN, 05-04-2005) FORT WASHINGTON, Md. (FinalCall.com) - The greatness of the pain suffered by the people in America whose parents and grandparents are descended from slaves has only increased the sincerity of their prayers, which produced the Millions More Movement, declared the Honorable Minister Louis...
Families protest deaths at hands of police
Activists won't keep silent on police brutality (FCN, 04-12-2005) WASHINGTON (FinalCall.com) - At least two proprietors of businesses near Howard University are protesting the deaths of their adult children at the hands of the Metropolitan Police. Family members of Charquisa Johnson, her friends and outraged community activists scheduled a candlelight vigil April 26–the second anniversary of her death–outside the apartment...
Will Blacks still be able to live in Harlem?
NEW YORK (FinalCall.com) - Activists and Harlem residents heeded the call from Nellie Bailey, executive director of the Harlem Tenants Council, and packed room 8A, on the eighth floor of the Harlem State Office Building, on Apr. 22, to join in the roundtable discussion, “Harlem from Black Mecca to Private Market: Will Blacks still be able to live in...
Calls continue for pardon of Black boxing legend
WASHINGTON (FinalCall.com) - A group of politicians, boxing experts, civil rights leaders and documentary filmmaker Ken Burns (Unforgiveable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson) gathered on Capitol Hill in April to continue their push for the Bush administration to pardon boxing legend Jack Johnson. “No one should be punished for choosing to go their own way,” said...
America, we have an image problem
Global Opinion: The Spread of Anti-Americanism (PEW Research, 01-24-2005) NEW YORK (IPS/GIN) - In March 2003, Dr. John Brown resigned from the U.S. State Department after 20 years as a senior Foreign Service officer, telling then-Secretary of State Colin Powell that he could not “in good conscience” support President George Bush's war plans against Iraq. In his letter of resignation,...
The Launch of the Millions More Movement
WASHINGTON (FinalCall.com) - It is the substance of things hoped for by generations of oppressed Black people in America. It is a tangible force that touched all those present yearning for the uplift of our communities. It is a moment that answered prayers in recognition of a greater common cause. It is the unity of Black leadership across...
Reactions to the Millions More Movement press conference
ASKIAM ‘I came here, not certain. I leave here, quite certain' Millions More Movement Press Conference Webcast (05-02-2005)Official site of the Millions More Movement Rock Newman, boxing promoter, former manager of former Heavyweight Boxing Champion Riddick BoweJoy, happiness, a feeling of a sense of a direction and a sense of community that may have never, ever existed before, amongst the most powerful...
Palestinian political prisoner arrested seven times
U.S. Political Prisoner listing (Jericho Movement) WASHINGTON (FinalCall.com) - Palestinian activists have been touring the United States during the month of April to get people in this country to understand that their government's blind support of Israel's occupation of Palestinian land denies the rights of the Palestinians. “First of all, we think that the Americans should do more than they...