Amidst accusation of violence against police, gang truce continues
NEWARK (FinalCall.com) - The May 21 ceasefire between the city's Bloods and Crips was still holding on August 4 when Byron Kelley stood before a plethora of microphones to deny a recent newspaper report alleging that police were targeted by the Bloods. Mr. Kelley is a spokesman for the gang intervention organization Saving Our Selves (SOS), one of the groups...
New young Black leadership: Can it save the Democratic Party?
BOSTON (FinalCall.com) - Symbolized by the face of certain-to-be-elected Illinois U.S. Senator Barack Obama, a new cadre of young Black leadership with ties to the hip hop movement has emerged around the nation, both inside and outside the Democratic Party. -NEWS ANALYSIS- At the Democratic Convention, a record number of Black faces were seen as keynote speakers, including several primetime...
Black farmers denied justice
WASHINGTON (FinalCall.com) - The same racist government program that denied Black farmers fair access to farm aid and forced a $2.3 billion landmark civil rights settlement has now been accused of “willfully obstructing justice” in their denial of nearly 90 percent of the rightful compensation claims, after a new investigation by the Environmental Working Group (EWG) and the...
Cross-burning at home of activist family
FCNNEWSSOURCE CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas (FinalCall.com) - George and Samimah Aziz-Hodge woke up on the morning of July 14 to the frightening sight of an image of a cross burned on the lawn in front of their Country Club Estates home. The couple is the only Black family in the neighborhood and have lived in the area a little less...
LAPD beating victim sues city, community rallies in support
CHARLENEM LOS ANGELES (FinalCall.com) - The Black motorist who was beaten by several Los Angeles Police Department Officers (LAPD) June 23, following a high-speed chase in Compton, filed a claim July 15 against the city of Los Angeles for $25 million in damages. Stanley Miller has suffered brain damage, spinal injuries, trunk-torso injuries, internal injuries, emotional distress, and bruises and contusions,...
NAACP becomes a political organization
PHILADELPHIA (FinalCall.com) - The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) celebrated its 95th anniversary less than a mile from where one of its founding fathers, W.E.B. DuBois, conducted his historic social study on Black life, published as “The Philadelphia Negro.” The theme of this year's July 10-15 convention, held at the Pennsylvania Convention Center, “The Race...
U.S. house fires killing black children
NEW YORK (FinalCall.com) - A nationwide Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) study of Centers For Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) data, dating 1989 to 1998, determined that Black children under age 5 in Maryland and Illinois are four times more likely to die in a house fire. The federal agency said that, in the decade that covered their study,...
Are Black issues being abandoned on the John Kerry bandwagon?
Have Black Democrats given up on the system? (FCN, June 1, 2004)Minister Louis Farrakhan: Guidance To America and the World (FCN Webcast, May 3, 2004) WASHINGTON (FinalCall.com) - The desire among Black Democratic Party leaders to defeat incumbent Republican President George W. Bush may be so strong as to give Senator John Kerry (D-Mass.) a “free pass” on tough...
Boston mosque rebuilds, develops and revives poor neighborhoods
BOSTON (FinalCall.com) - At night, at the crossroads of neighborhoods Roxbury and Dorchester, where most of Boston's 150,000 Blacks reside, an illuminated clock stands, featuring at its top, silhouette portraits of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad and the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan. These silhouettes are joined by images of legendary luminaries such as civil rights activist Rosa Parks, tennis star...
John Kerry responds to Minister Farrakhan
Congressional crumbs won't satisfy hunger for liberation (FCN Editorial, 07-26-2004) (FinalCall.com) - On May 3, the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan held a press conference at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. April Ryan, White House Correspondent for America's Urban Radio, asked him, “If the election were held today, whom would you choose?” Minister Farrakhan responded, “I would choose neither...