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A weekend of support for Palestine in Chicago

CHICAGO—The Chicago Coalition for Justice in Palestine organized a car caravan to continue drawing attention to the atrocities happening in Gaza by the Israel Defense Forces. Hundreds of cars with large Palestinian flags attached to each car lined up in the parking lot of the GeekSeat Stadium in Bridgeview, Illinois, and drove in solidarity to downtown Chicago on Dec....

What Romney & Obama Missed

ERICTOUREM -Contributing Writer- Poverty, urban violence other crises are missing as Romney and Obama pursue the middle class vote and a seat in the White House   ATLANTA (FinalCall.com) -  With the Republican and Democratic conventions behind them, President Barack Obama and Republican rival Mitt Romney are fine tuning their debate skills. The first of three nationally televised debates is set...

Justice Department sues Texas developer accused of luring Hispanic homebuyers into predatory loans

WASHINGTON—The Justice Department filed its first predatory mortgage lending case on December 20, against a Texas developer accused of luring tens of thousands of Hispanic homebuyers into ”bait and switch” sales through platforms like TikTok. The lawsuit focuses on a massive development northeast of Houston, Colony Ridge, that promises homeownership with advertisements in Spanish, but then steers applicants into buying...

Hip Hop Controversy: Rap music may be facing new challenges

By Charlene Muhammad CHARLENEM See Related story:#HipHop The voice of the revolution and the spirit of resistance (FCN, 04-17-2013) LOS ANGELES (FinalCall.com) - Rappers and music audiences appear to be engaged in a battle over freedom of speech and consumerism with a backlash against negative lyrics. The latest to feel public pressure is former prison guard-turned rapper Rick Ross, who also uses...

Dr. King in context: A revolutionary and visionary for freedom, justice, equality

Over the years, humanitarian and civil rights champion, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., his mission, narrative and work have been gentrified, watered down, white-washed, hijacked and blatantly misquoted, but he was a revolutionary who truly fought for freedom, justice and equality. As the nation prepares to honor and reflect on Dr. King with activities and events on the U.S....

Stop and frisk unconstitutional, but the fight isn’t quite over yet

NEW YORK (FinalCall.com) - The New York Police Department's “stop and frisk” proactive violates constitutional protections against unreasonable search and seizure, federal judge Shira Scheindlin recently ruled. Her decision on Aug. 12 also includes a call for a court-assigned independent monitor. City officials responded quickly with vows to appeal the ruling. The federal judge's decision followed a 10-week class action lawsuit...

Premiere for ‘ANSWERED Part 2—The Coming of God’ debuts in Arizona

PHOENIX—In a spectacular event that combined glamour with spiritual significance, over 600 members of the Nation of Islam (N.O.I.), their families, friends, and guests attended the white carpet premiere of the documentary “ANSWERED Part 2—The Coming Of God” in three sold-out theaters at the Pollack Cinemas in Tempe, Arizona, on January 20. Produced by Student Minister Ilia Rashad Muhammad, author of “UFOs...

A conspiracy to kill Dr. King?

CHARLENEM and Starla Muhammad -Final Call Staffers- Nearly 50 years after murder civil rights leader's death, questions about who killed him still raised While Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was lauded, his life celebrated, and his legacy praised on the day that commemorated his birth, there remained lingering questions about his assassination and whether all the facts surrounding his death are...

A declining America sloping further toward a broader Middle East war

Since war and unspeakable horror enveloped the Gaza Strip in October 2023, and now increasingly the Occupied West Bank by the Zionist State of Israel, there are fears of it expanding to regional proportions.  With recent drone attacks in Iraq, Syria, and Yemen by the United States, Israel’s chief backer, it appears the Middle East is sloping further to...

Community Reinvestment Act targeted, say activists

By Saeed Shabazz -Staff Writer- Activists in Chicago are using the power of the 1977 Community Reinvestment Act (CRA) to ensure that U.S. Bank NA, lives up to its commitments to Blacks and Latinos as they aim to acquire Chicago-area branches of RBS Citizens/Charter One Bank.   In a letter to the federal Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) which has...