Gun injuries cost $802 million a year
FCNNEWSSOURCE According to a new study, gunshot injuries account for $802 million in annual hospital charges nationally and about one-third of shooting victims don't have insurance. Published Jan. 1 in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine, the study added that the $802 million does not include physician fees or follow-up care. In addition, the average initial cost is almost $24,000...
A demand for unfettered probe of New York police dept. shootings
, Staff Writer NEW YORK (FinalCall.com)–Rev. Al Sharpton has joined activists and family members of men shot by New York City police on Jan. 1 and 2 in asking for an independent investigation. Four people killed by police in the first two days of the New Year. "Four deaths in two days is enough cause to pause," Rev. Sharpton said...
Ford/Firestone trial begins for former NAACP director
, Staff Writer (FinalCall.com) - Nearly two years after former NAACP Acting Executive Director and CEO Earl T. Shinhoster died from injuries suffered in an accident involving a Ford Explorer equipped with Firestone tires, his wrongful death case finally went to trial at Final Call press time at the Macon County State Court in Tuskegee, Ala. Hundreds of cases have...
Newark struggles to curb rising street violence
New hip hop movement aims to bring peace to streets in Newark (FCN, 01-04-2005) NEWARK (FinalCall.com) - Blood stained the streets of this city Dec. 14, as four people were shot to death, and three more wounded, in what police officials, the mayor and the media are calling “street gang-related violence.” The next day, two more died in street violence in...
Minister Farrakhan calls community leaders to co-convene Million Man March 10th anniversary
CHARLENEM LOS ANGELES (FinalCall.com) - The 350 participants of the Dec. 17 Urban Issues Breakfast Forum who walked into the Furama Hotel's banquet room to hear the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan revisit the Million Man March, as its 10th anniversary approaches, strode away with renewed commitment, faith and goals to further empower their communities and constituents. “The brilliance that is among...
Protests, town hall meetings address police shooting
, Staff Writer LOUISVILLE, Ky.(FinalCall.com)–Protesters were back in front of the Louisville Police Dept. on Christmas Day, despite being arrested two days earlier for similar activities. The ongoing protests are in response to the Dec. 5, 2002 police shooting of a handcuffed Black man 11 times because he allegedly threatened a police detective with a box-cutter knife. The incident occurred in...
Congressional Black Caucus picks new chairman
WASHINGTON (FinalCall.com) - The Congressional Black Caucus has chosen a new leader to cope with the increasingly conservative Republican leadership that has taken power in the U.S. House, Senate, the White House, and the courts. He's six-term Rep. Mel Watt (D-N.C.), whose document condemning the war with Iraq became policy for the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC). “My attitude would...
Muslim women assemble against domestic violence
CHARLENEM Statewide California Coalition for Battered Women TORRANCE, Calif. (FinalCall.com) - Rohida Khan Fox is a woman one would definitely call “educated.” She covets two Masters of Arts degrees in Political Science and International Relations, and two Bachelors degrees in law and arts. She hosts a television show on law and current affairs highlighting human rights issues, and is a certified...
Who really wrote The Matrix?
(FinalCall.com) - Screenplay writer Sophia Stewart is adamant that she is the author of the screenplay for the blockbuster movie, The Matrix, and her body of work was stolen. She is suing Warner Brothers, Joel Silver, Andy and Larry Wachowski in Los Angeles' United States District Court in a case that has been defined as one of the largest...
Bush’s Social Security privatization ‘adversely affects’ Blacks
THE WHITE HOUSE (FinalCall.com) - When President George Bush and his supporters offered a rosy economic scenario for this country's retirees in a future “ownership” society at a two-day economic conference Dec. 15-16, he was really peddling a “hoax” that will, in fact, betray Social Security, the nation's most fundamental social contract since the Bill of Rights. His scheme...