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One in three Native American women suffers sexual assault

JIM.LOBE WASHINGTON (IPS/GIN) - Native American women are at least 2.5 times more likely to be sexually assaulted in their lifetimes as other women...

Black men targeted for Genocide

ASKIAMSenior Correspondent Urban League report focuses on the Black male Black genocide: From the cradle to the grave (FCN, 12-22-2003)One on one with Dr. Frances Cress...

D.C. residents’ voting rights compromised

ASKIAMSenior Correspondent Voting Rights Act campaign hits D.C. (FCN, 08-18-2005) WASHINGTON (FinalCall.com) - Residents of the nation's capital recently moved one step closer to voting equality...

California’s new secret death chamber

Death penalty: U.S. states widen scope for executions (FCN, 10-05-2006)Death Penalty Focus of California (Death Penalty Focus)Campaign to End the Death Penalty LOS...

Spelman student starts letter writing campaign to BET and TV One

“Dear Ms. Lee, when I heard about a letter writing campaign to BET, I knew I had to participate because I am disgusted...

Corporate greed and private prisons

Using cheap prison labor to build profits Follow the Prison Money Trail ..to elected officials (In These Times, 09-04-2006)The Prison Industrial Complex: Crisis and...

Immigration activists organize for May Day

ASKIAMSenior Correspondent On May 1, immigrants reclaimed their voice (FCN, 05-16-2006) Millions More in Los Angeles (FCN, 03-28-2006) Millóns Más en Los Ángeles (FCN Español,...

Return of sentencing power to federal judges a boost

SB 40 Worsens the Prison Crisis (U.N.I.O.N., 03-2007)Justice Dept. reports alarming incarceration rates: Blacks tripled, Latinos grew tenfold (FCN, 09-03-2003)Black incarceration rates...

Democratic presidential hopefuls say no to FOX News presidential debate

Video Compilation Of Fox Attacks On Black America (Colorofchange.org)Contact The Congressional Black Caucus Institute (CBCI) (CBCInstitute.org)Misreading The Congressional Black Caucus' Fox Deal? (Chicago Defender,...

Millions More Movement to the Rescue

When Bryan Muhammad, co-chair of the Ft. Worth Millions More Movement, heard the story of how Shaquanda Cotton, a 14-year-old Black girl in...