CNN’s faulty portrait of Black in America
ASKIAM-Senior Correspondent- (FinalCall.com) - As I watched the well-told, well-produced CNN report “Black in America,” I wondered if I wasn’t living in some alternative universe...
Hip Hop Lives: FCN Interview with Nas
(FinalCall.com) - Though a young man (age 34) Nas has a long list of accomplishments. He is considered by most to be a...
Race, religion and racial profiling
Civil liberties groups denounce new government plans to investigate without a cause or clue LOS ANGELES (FinalCall.com) - The American Civil Liberties...
Farrakhan speaks on true freedom at Emancipation Day in Virgin Islands
(FinalCall.com) - When the Virgin Islands’ Historical, Cultural and Tradition Foundation was looking for an Emancipation Day speaker they had certain requirements. “We wanted...
L.A. marks Minority Mental Health Month
LOS ANGELES (FinalCall.com) - L.A. County Supervisor Yvonne Braithwaite-Burke, city officials and mental health advocates held a press conference at the Kenneth...
Longest Walk emphasizes Native American concerns
ASKIAM-Senior Correspondent- THE WHITE HOUSE (FinalCall.com) - When militant Native American activists captured Alcatraz Island in the San Francisco Bay, reclaiming it as Indian land...
Suspect’s killer protected by ‘blue wall of silence?’
ASKIAM-Senior Correspondent- WASHINGTON (FinalCall.com) - Prince George’s County, Md., residents have heard it all before: promises by county officials to root out corrupt and brutal...
Whites challenge ideas of White supremacy, racism
(FinalCall.com) - In Boston, Mass., there are some people who don’t want to gloss over the issue of White racism. There exists a workshop...
Judge rules against teens in controversial case
PALMDALE, Calif. (FinalCall.com) - A juvenile court judge on June 23 “found it to be true” that two Black teenagers committed misdemeanor...
America’s mortgage crisis worsens
Bad loans, vacant properties, falling home values, prices signs of a continued crisis LOS ANGELES (FinalCall.com) - The presidential race, rising costs of...