Sins of the parents
When parents are jailed,children must suffer through often trying times (FinalCall.com) - She has never committed a crime, nor physically spent one day in jail, but 31-year-old Tanya King spent her entire childhood in a kind of prison. She was born a child of incarcerated parents and suffered severely. Isolation, resentment and ridicule were just a few of the burdens...
Study finds few options for ex-offenders
(FinalCall.com) - A two-year study conducted by the Chicago Urban League determined that Black incarceration rates in Illinois will remain high because released inmates return to impoverished neighborhoods that are not equipped to nurture rehabilitation. The study also determined that nearly half of all Black offenders in the state return to prison within three years of their release....
Activists begin year with plans for peace protests
WASHINGTON (FinalCall.com)–Even as Bush administration officials lament their lack of success in approving legislation to enact their domestic agenda intended to help working-class Americans, peace activists are planning a week of major rallies in Washington and in other cities, aimed at opposing President George W. Bush’s major distraction from his promise of "compassionate conservatism"–his plans to launch another...
Farrakhan’s message to the President: America is headed for chastisement
(FinalCall.com) - The Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan made public last week his most recent letter to United States President George Bush. Once again, the leader of the Nation of Islam expressed concern that America was steadily moving down a path that would lead to divine destruction and bring greater anxiety to a nation gripped by fear of war, an...
Strange fruit
Activists outraged at Missouri hanging (FinalCall.com) - A Kenyan-born Black man found dangling from an "almost too-perfect noose" 30-feet above ground and eerily close to a place made infamous for a multi-lynching of Blacks in the early 1900s is deemed too coincidental by the victim’s family, activists and community. They are demanding that the body be exhumed and an...
Homelessness, hunger rise in America
WASHINGTON (FinalCall.com)–They could not go home for the holidays. They are hungry. They depend on the charity of others to eat. They are the homeless in the land of plenty. Facing the threat of increased hypothermia and a severely cold winter caused by the so-called "El Niño" weather pattern, their needs as well as their numbers are increasing at...
Critics bash Bush’s delay of Africa trip
WASHINGTON (IPS)–President George W. Bush’s decision to delay a widely anticipated trip to Africa has prompted accusations from experts that Washington is growing callous to the world’s development problems. The White House said recently that it was canceling the January 10-17 trip, which would have been Mr. Bush’s first official visit to Africa as president. The announcement is a...
Muslim roundup leads to lawsuit
CHARLENEM LOS ANGELES (FinalCall.com)–Four civil rights groups filed a federal class action lawsuit Dec. 24 in response to nationwide arrests of Muslims who reported to local immigration offices to comply with the United States’ new special registration requirements. Attorneys for the Center for Human Rights and Constitutional Law filed the lawsuit against U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft and the Immigration...
Healthcare workers protest smallpox vaccination plans
WASHINGTON (FInalCall.com)–Health care workers and major medical centers across the country are protesting President Bush’s plan to inoculate as many as 11 million civilian emergency workers with the controversial smallpox vaccine. "President Bush’s smallpox plan puts hospital workers and their patients at unnecessary risk," said Andrew L. Stern, president of the 1.5 million member Service Employees International Union...
Get Fit to Live: Start the new year off right – Back to Basics
What will it take to get our body back? This is often a question many ask at the beginning of the New Year. In Study Guide No. 13, titled, "The Price of Redemption," it states: "To ‘redeem’ means to ‘buy back.’ This suggests that the item being bought back was once owned by the buyer and for...