State spending cuts could add to unemployment
WASHINGTON (FinalCall.com) - With Labor Department statistics showing unemployment insurance claims rising to over 4.6 million, still more face unemployment resulting from budget...
‘Silent Depression’ victimizes Black America
By Richard MuhammadContributing Editor (FinalCall.com) - As a Black man ascends into the highest political office in the country, Black America remains mired in a...
Former transit cop arrested in Oakland shooting
CHARLENEM OAKLAND (FinalCall.com) - The arrest and filing of murder charges against the former transit officer, whose New Year’s Day shooting of an unarmed Black...
Dr. Martin Luther King’s Life and Legacy
CHARLENEM Beyond the Dream: The Other Side of Dr. King Audio: Time to Break Silence (Riverside Church, April 4, 1967) LOS ANGELES (FinalCall.com) - This year marks...
Fatal shooting of unarmed man sparks outrage
CHARLENEM Anger, sorrow in Oakland over stunning shooting captured by cell phone cams OAKLAND (FinalCall.com) - Many people in the Bay Area knew Oscar Grant, III,...
Activists: Time for Blacks to speak out against Israeli violence
NEW YORK - Human Rights Attorney Roger Wareham of the December 12th Movement and Blacks Against Genocide marched from Times Square to the Israeli...
Reflections on contributions of a civil rights pioneer
EUTAW, Ala. (FinalCall.com) - The life of Rev. James Bevel was remembered Dec. 29, at a tribute that became a history lesson spanning five...
What’s the Green Industry?
CHARLENEM What’s the Green Industry and Why Is Everybody Talking About It? LOS ANGELES (FinalCall.com) - Ever since President-elect Barack Obama declared his desire to...
Police violence victims fill emergency rooms
By Charlene Muhammad CHARLENEM LOS ANGELES–New research published in the Emergency Medicine Journal indicates that excessive police violence is suspected in a significant number of emergency...
Deepening economic crisis closes out 2008
CHARLENEM Credit crunch, job uncertainty troubling America (FinalCall.com) - America recognizes the last part of the year as a holiday, reserved for parties and gift giving, but...