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Blacks in foster care system need stable homes

-Staff Writer- Save the children (FinalCall.com) - Almost twelve years ago at the Million Man March, the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan asked Black men to...

Susan L. Taylor Calls for a ‘Day of Presence’ in New Orleans

FCNNEWSSOURCE We Matter. We Care. We Act. The Louisiana Justice InstituteThe hidden story in New Orleans (FCN, 01-25-2006)Reconstructing Our Selves Our Lives and Our Communities...

New York City gets wake-up calls with tornado, flooding

NEW YORK (FinalCall.com) - Traveling at 111 miles per hour, a twister tornado reportedly hit the borough of Brooklyn on Aug. 8, crushing cars...

Introducing ‘a torchlight’ at annual Harlem Book Fair

NEW YORK (FinalCall.com) - On July 21, participants of the 9th Annual Harlem Book Fair filled the area of West 135th Street (between Fifth...

The fabric of faith and determination

Sisters gather for the First Annual ‘From Headpiece to Hem' Sewing Conference MEMPHIS, Tenn. (FinalCall.com) - “Sewing is not just sewing,” explained the Honorable...

Alberto Gonzalez, scandals a headache for Bush

ASKIAMSenior Correspondent UPDATE: Gonzales resigns as US attorney-general (Financial Times, 08-27-2007)Criminal cronies in high places (FCN, 07-18-2007) WASHINGTON (FinalCall.com) - Going into mid-summer, U.S. Attorney General...

Grassroots coalition holds immigration town hall meeting

LOS ANGELES (FinalCall.com) - Although the U.S. Senate killed reform legislation that would have granted legal status to millions of undocumented immigrants,...

Imam Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin transferred to feds

ASKIAMSenior Correspondent End the persecution of Imam Jamil Al-Amin (FCN, 08-14-2007)Fight to free Jamil Al-Amin (FCN/Mumia Abu-Jamal, 11-20-2001) WASHINGTON (FinalCall.com) - With legal charges still pending...

Tragedy strikes Oakland Black press and bakery

Askia Muhammad: A Recipe for Mayhem (Washington Post, 08-10-2007) OAKLAND, Calif. (FinalCall.com) - The fatal shooting of a well known Black journalist Aug. 2...

Slave burial held at historic Philadephia site

‘The nine are free, and so are we’ Philadelphia's dirty secret to be told (FCN, 02-16-2003)NY councilman: Burial ground highlights reparations battle (FCN, 04-12-2004) PHILADELPHIA (FinalCall.com) -...