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Muslim women assemble against domestic violence

CHARLENEM Statewide California Coalition for Battered Women TORRANCE, Calif. (FinalCall.com) - Rohida Khan Fox is a woman one would definitely call “educated.” She covets two Masters...

Who really wrote The Matrix?

(FinalCall.com) - Screenplay writer Sophia Stewart is adamant that she is the author of the screenplay for the blockbuster movie, The Matrix, and her...

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...