Protestors picket home of BET president
ASKIAMSenior Correspondent WASHINGTON (FinalCall.com) - Hundreds of demonstrators, most from Mt. Ennon Baptist Church in nearby Clinton, Md., continued their weekly Saturday protest against the...
Parents protest the criminalization of Black students
Increasing criminalization of children: How did we get here? (FCN, 12-04-2005)Zero tolerance: From the schoolhouse to the jailhouse (FCN, 04-12-2005) PALMDALE, Calif. (FinalCall.com)...
New organization encourages positive images of women
Media images of Black women: From soft porn to the invisible soldier (FCN, 10-04-2003) NEW YORK (FinalCall.com) - The Women in Entertainment Empowerment...
More money for war; less money for services
War spending undermining U.S. economy (FCN, 10-11-2006) WASHINGTON (FinalCall.com) - With the Bush Administration’s request Sept. 26, for an additional $42.3 billion in war-related...
Holy Day of Atonement Comes to Atlanta
FCNNEWSSOURCE Holy Day of Atonement Media Advisory (NOI.org, 10-10-2007) ATLANTA (FinalCall.com) - The 12th anniversary of the Million Man March and the Holy Day of...
A call to action: 10,000 Black men called to patrol Philly streets
PHILADELPHIA (FinalCall.com) - In a move that is unprecedented, a coalition of media, civic, community leaders and law enforcement are calling for 10,000...
Hate crimes sweep Mid-Atlantic region
ASKIAMSenior Correspondent WASHINGTON (FinalCall.com) - A 10-day rash of racist crimes and Ku Klux Klan propaganda including nooses and racial torture spread over the National...
Activists: Iowa Blacks are changing their condition
DES MOINES, Iowa (FinalCall.com) - The pain of Black Iowans surfaced in July, when a national study released by the Washington D.C.-based Sentencing Project...
Payday loans under attack
CBC holds ‘predatory lending' hearings (FCN, 07-21-2005) WASHINGTON, D.C. (FinalCall.com) - “Pay day loans” have been called everything from “legal loan sharks” for the...
Attica prison rebellion remembered 36 years later
The Attica prison uprising (libcom.org) NEW YORK (FinalCall.com) - Survivors from the 1971 “Attica Prison Rebellion for Human Rights” gathered at the Martin Luther King...