OUTRAGE IN MISSISSIPPI: Community demands answers after Black teen is shot by police
Within an atmosphere of what residents called callous and indifferent policing, the recent killing of Jaheim McMillan, 15, by a Gulfport, Mississippi, police officer, is leading to more questions than answers after the high school freshman was removed from life support, two days after being shot in the head on October 6. Local business owner and community activist, Stanley Moore,...
Vouchers lose in Florida
(FinalCall.com) - On Jan. 6, Florida's Supreme Court ruled that the state school voucher program is unconstitutional. This decision stunned the school voucher community and was lauded by its opponents. “The governor (Jeb Bush) should not spend taxpayer dollars fighting an ideological battle and instead focus on making sure that every public school provides quality education,” said Bruce Gordon,...
Nation Welcomes New Student Imam
The Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan recently appointed the second student imam, Abdul Salaam Muhammad, in the Nation of Islam. Student Imam Abdul Salaam is headquartered in Baltimore at Muhammad Mosque No. 6. He joins Student National Imam Sultan Rahman Muhammad, resident imam at Mosque Maryam in Chicago where the Nation of Islam is headquartered, who was appointed in 2012. Having...
Immigration and anti-war movements unite in New York
Si Se Puede! The undocumented speak up - and America should listen (FCN, 04-10-2006) UNITED NATIONS (FinalCall.com) - In advance of a massive mobilization of immigration and anti-war organizations coming together on Apr. 10 in New York for what is considered “A National Day of Action Rally for Immigrant Rights,” pro-immigration activists and mobilization organizers held a press conference Apr....
Mother of Kierra Coles is not giving up on finding her
CHICAGO—The case of 26-year-old Kierra Coles, the postal worker who was three months pregnant at the time she went missing, is still like a raw wound to those who love and care for her. Her family says she disappeared without a trace and that the circumstances surrounding her disappearance mimic many other Black women and girls missing in the...
U.S. military struggles with suicides, battlefield breakdowns and mental health care
Casualties in Iraq; The Human Cost of Occupation (Antiwar.com)Life in ‘liberated’ Iraq a disaster, UN report says (FCN, 06-01-2005)Military recruitment down: Blacks silently protest war (FCN, 04-06-2005)Neo-Cons and the Motive for Iraq War (Minister Louis Farrakhan, 05-03-2004) WASHINGTON (FinalCall.com) - In addition to a high rate of suicides among U.S. troops, brutal atrocities they are now accused of committing in Iraq...
Texas cop didn’t say ‘gun’ before fatal shooting, search
A Texas police officer who fatally shot a Black woman through a rear window of her home three years ago didn’t say the woman was holding a gun before he pulled the trigger and never mentioned the weapon before searching the house, the officer who was with him that night testified on Dec. 6 . Fort Worth Officer Carol Darch’s...