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Black leaders issue new strategy to stop AIDS crisis in Black community

FCNNEWSSOURCE Can we reverse the AIDS epidemic? (FCN, 11-08-2006) WASHINGTON (FinalCall.com) - Leading Black lawmakers, civil rights leaders and medical experts called on the federal...

Grieving widow calls for full investigation in husband’s death

WASHINGTON (FinalCall.com) - The horror surrounding the October 13 death of music producer Richard “Scotty Beats” Brown was magnified for the family when...

Health scientists push to curb the poisons among us

/GIN PARIS (IPS/GIN) - A group of scientists, including several Nobel laureates in medicine, is urging the industrialized world to slash chemical pollution...

Prison Reform Inc. forum is step toward ex-offender movement

By Richard Muhammad CHICAGO (FinalCall.com) - Ex-offenders, their family members and Chicago-area groups tackling employment and other ex-offender issues will gather Dec. 2 at the...

Democrats control Congress: Will it help the masses?

The True Role of Government (by Minister Louis Farrakhan) WASHINGTON (FinalCall.com) - Several Black members of Congress are poised to take control of...

Will Congress ‘change the course in Iraq’?

Elections are over, but the war is not IRAQ: Hope fades as violence increases (FCN, 12-04-2006)New consensus emerges on Iraq–we were wrong (FCN, 11-07-2006)Life in...

Short-term memory aids Schwarzenegger victory

LOS ANGELES (FinalCall.com) - When California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger refused clemency last December to Stanley “Tookie” Williams, death penalty opponents and grassroots...

Belafonte salutes ex-offenders

No second chances? Legal barriers frustrate ex-offenders (FCN, 02-11-2004) WASHINGTON (FinalCall.com) - Singer-actor and human rights activist Harry Belafonte, D.C. government officials, entertainers, sports...

Tobacco giant hit again for targeting minors

Anti-tobacco group says cigarette campaign not cool (FCN, 05-02-2004) CHICAGO (FinalCall.com) - An agreement between 39 attorneys general and the R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co....

Manage your winter heating costs

Looking back on last winter, we were faced with a near panic caused by sky-high prices at the gas pump and seemingly outlandish...