Film charts plight of gang members’ parents
Black Hollywood Education & Resource Center (BHERC) HOLLYWOOD (FinalCall.com) - “Summer time is the killing season,” teenager and gang member Jameeka recurred throughout...
Tragedy brings opportunity for youth in Chicago neighborhood
By Richard Muhammad CHICAGO (FinalCall.com) - The month of March was not a good one for Rep. Bobby Rush, with the tragic deaths of two...
Washington D.C. Residents say ‘no’ to slots
WASHINGTON (FinalCall.com) - On the boarded up corner of Good Hope Road and Martin Luther King Ave. in the poorest section of the...
Essence music festival presents the brilliance of Black minds
HOUSTON (FinalCall.com) - If you traveled here for the Essence Music Festival simply to party at clubs and official concerts July 4th weekend,...
Some of this Earth to call our own
According to Minister Abdul Akbar Muhammad, International Representative of the Nation of Islam based in Ghana, West Africa and St. Louis, Mo., “Historically,...
America is unprepared for disasters
In spite of 9/11 & Katrina, Americans still not prepared for disasters NEW YORK (FinalCall.com) - On a rainy Saturday morning, Zaid Abdullah, 60, and...
Jamaican PM: ‘Together, we can make it.’
WASHINGTON (FinalCall.com) - Politics in Jamaica has a new face, a female face. The Honorable Portia Lucretia Simpson Miller was elected Feb. 26,...
House postpones Voting Rights Act renewal vote
Ron Walters: Why Blacks Don't Vote Republican (Chicago Defender, 07-05-2006) WASHINGTON (FinalCall.com) - House Republican leaders postponed a vote on renewing the 1965 Voting...
Chicago area youth programs tackle negative images of boys
CHICAGO (FinalCall.com) - “Every child is the creation of God–and God does not make mistakes,” declared Father George Clements to the applause that...
Gang ceasefire agreement launched in Los Angeles
LOS ANGELES (FinalCall.com) - Can you change the course of a historic, deadly path that is prophesied? If so, then how, especially...