Pentagon workers challenge new personnel system
Steady Drop in Black Army Recruits (Washington Post, 03-09-2005) WASHINGTON (FinalCall.com) - Even as the Pentagon watches Black recruitment into the uniform services decline,...
Police brutality: Alive and well in America
(FinalCall.com) - Juanita Young is legally blind and suffers from asthma. But that did not stop the New York Police Department from arresting her...
Racial profiling a crime in New Jersey
TRENTON (FinalCall.com)–New Jersey Governor James McGreevey (D) signed a bill March 14 that made racial profiling by public officials, including police officers, a crime. The...
Identity theft, the silent crime
(FinalCall.com) - Last year, over seven million people were victims of the silent crime of identity theft. The information explosion, easy credit and...
Residents reach boiling point over racial attacks
CHARLENEM LOS ANGELES (FinalCall.com) - From the coastal city of Long Beach to the rolling hills of Valencia, Blacks within the county are being attacked...
Tulsa riot victims petition Supreme Court
Landmark suit seeks reparations for deadly 1921 Okla. riot (FCN, 03-13-2003) WASHINGTON (FinalCall.com) - They survived one of the ugliest and bloodiest incidents of...
Poor People Protest predatory lending practices by Wells Fargo
Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) WASHINGTON - The racially discriminatory, predatory lending practices of Wells Fargo, along with President George Bush's...
D.C. AIDS providers protest de-funding
FCN Editorial - Black women v. AIDS (12-19-2004)Genocide of Blacks continues in America (FCN, 12-22-2003)HIV/AIDS continues to challenge Black America (FCN, 12-14-2003) WASHINGTON (FinalCall.com)...
ADL targets Russell Simmons
(FinalCall.com) - Music mogul Russell Simmons has refused to bow to pressure from the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) to denounce Minister Farrakhan as being...
Supreme Court bans death penalty for minors
JIM.LOBE WASHINGTON (IPS/GIN) - In a major, but razor-thin, victory for children's rights advocates, five of the nine justices on the U.S. Supreme Court...