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No exit from Iraq quagmire available?

ASKIAMSenior Correspondent Iraq War 5 years later: No end in sight (FCN, 04-03-2008)Five years on.. An Iraqi journalist looks back (ElectronicIraq.net, 03-20-2008)The greatest foreign policy blunder...

Black youth drink less, targeted more

Malt Liquor Marketing to Latinos (metroactive, 10-1997) (FinalCall.com) - The Center on Alcohol Marketing and Youth at Georgetown University found Black youth ages...

Government sued over deadly pesticides

(FinalCall.com) - What you may be consuming along with some of your vegetables could be dangerous to your health. That’s the warning...

Health insurance a matter of life and death: study

Our children are dying for health care (FCN, 04-12-2007)Universal health care–a right or privilege? (FCN, 10-12-2006)The connection between wealth and health (FCN, 06-06-2006) WASHINGTON...

Driving While Black case settled in Maryland

Blacks moving targets for cops (FCN, 06-14-2004)Racial Justice: Racial Profiling (ACLU) Driving down Maryland’s 95 South for Army Lt. William Barry was usually just...

Forum focuses on overcoming institutional racism

LOS ANGELES (FinalCall.com) - Hundreds of Black social workers marked 40 years of service to their communities during their annual conference, “Ma’at,...

40 years after Dr. King’s assassination

By Richard Muhammad, Contributing Editor andAshahed M. Muhammad, Assistant Editor Black America still struggles for freedom, justice and equality (FinalCall.com) - On April 4, 1968,...

Seattle Initiative seeks to improve life for Blacks, poor

(FinalCall.com) - As the world marked the 40th anniversary of the assassination of civil rights hero Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., a...

Hillary Clinton stands by attack on pastor

ASKIAMSenior Correspondent Obama rebounds after racial controversy (FCN, 04-03-2008) WASHINGTON (FinalCall.com) - Despite some broad ecumenical support developing nationally for the ministry of Sen. Barack Obama’s...

New sentencing hearing for Mumia Abu-Jamal

ASKIAMSenior Correspondent New evidence in Mumia Abu-Jamal’s case (FCN, 12-23-2007) WASHINGTON (FinalCall.com) - A federal appeals court refused to overturn the conviction of death row...