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Bush’s Social Security privatization ‘adversely affects’ Blacks

THE WHITE HOUSE (FinalCall.com) - When President George Bush and his supporters offered a rosy economic scenario for this country's retirees in a...

ACLU holds roundtable discussion on impact of arbitrary detentions

NEW YORK (FinalCall.com) - The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) released a new report on Dec. 8 entitled, “Worlds Apart: How Deporting Immigrants After...

Farrakhan calls for a unified force; ‘We don’t have another 100 years to wait’

NEWARK (FinalCall.com) - Black Cops Against Police Brutality's (B-CAP) 12th annual Pre-Kwanzaa Festival was held Dec. 11 at the Women In Support of the...

Rights groups probe charges of FBI spying in ‘terror war’

Does Dissent Equal Terrorism? (FCN, 12-09-2003)Anti terror laws produce new crisis for Black leadership (FCN, 12-25-2001) NEW YORK (IPS/GIN)–U.S. civil rights groups have filed...

Conyers hears election horror stories

WASHINGTON (FinalCall.com) - Judiciary Committee Ranking Member John Conyers (D-Mich.), Committee member and newly- elected Congressional Black Caucus Chair Melvin Watt (D-N.C.), Reps....

Four White teens attack Black youth

CHARLENEM SIMI VALLEY, Calif. (FinalCall.com) - Young Black male Jim King was selling his newspapers in front of a popular discount store Dec. 6 when,...

25-year ‘war on drugs’ gets a failing grade

JIM.LOBE Crack the CIA (GNN Web Video)Drug War Clock (DrugSense.org) WASHINGTON (IPS/GIN) - Neither its nearly quarter-century “war against drugs” nor the almost $3 billion...

No draft! No way!

Gearing Up for the Draft (12-13-2004)The 2005 United States Draft: Will you answer the call? (FCN, 07-17-2004) NEW YORK (FinalCall.com) - Kim Rosario, 38, became...

Untangling a twisted web to search for U.S. secrets

Preview in new tab US Designation “Intellectual Terror”: Al-Manar (IslamOnline, 12-18-2004)Iraq's reality; Interview with "unembedded" journalist Dahr Jamail (ZNet, 12-13-2004)Pentagon Weighs Use of Deception...

Elders come to the aid of youth

(FinalCall.com) - The New York Council of Elders Relating to Young People has added racial profiling to the numerous issues it deals with...