Top Sweetener Officially Declared a Carcinogen
by Dr. Joseph Mercola - mercola.com NEWS ANALYSIS Since 1987, it’s been clear this sweetener’s approval was mired by conflict of interest, poor quality, industry-funded research and revolving-door relationships between the FDA and the food industry. The World Health Organization has finally gotten around to declaring the popular artificial sweetener aspartame a potential carcinogen. I warned about aspartame’s cancer-causing potential on my site over...
Policy change gives LAPD chief more power
CHARLENEM LOS ANGELES (FinalCall.com) - The Los Angeles Police Department Board of Commissioners unanimously approved a new policy July 22 that mandates more training for officers involved in deadly use of force incidents and grants the police chief more oversight of when, why and how to discipline officers involved in shootings. LAPD Commander Richard Webb explained during a Commissioner’s Special Meeting...
U.S. averaging two mass shootings per day this year: Report
The U.S. is currently set to match or exceed the previous record for the most mass shootings in a year—set in 2021 with a total of 690—data compiled by Gun Violence Archive (GVA) indicates. According to GVA’s data, the U.S. has witnessed an average of two mass shootings every day so far this year, for a running total of 419 incidents, Axios online news...
Farrakhan announces a new beginning for the Nation of Islam
By Richard MuhammadContributing Editor (CHICAGO - FinalCall.com) - The history of the Nation of Islam in America is the history of a movement that has been unswerving in its defense of Blacks in America, challenging injustice and confronting the forces of White supremacy in the country. The Nation's strident defense of Blacks and unapologetic language employed to break up the mindset...
‘A cathartic release for Black folks’ Intellectuals analyze, activists mobilize and others wonder what’s next after Montgomery Riverboat brawl?
It was the video seen around the world. It’s been called the Riverboat Rumble, the Montgomery Melee, the Alabama Sweet Tea Party with more fans than Ali vs Frasier I, II and III, Tyson vs. Buster Douglas or Leonard vs. Duran. Unless you live on Mars, much of America witnessed how this fight captivated Blacks and others through social media...
Young and Powerful for Obama pushes activism
WASHINGTON (FinalCall.com) - During the Young and Powerful Presidential Brunch at recent inaugural festivities, the Rev. Jesse Jackson announced plans to organize college students around the county to protest student loan interest rates. The group Young and Powerful for Obama organized the brunch and other inaugural activities as part of efforts to support the new president and promote greater...
Uncertainty facing many Black parents, children as back-to-school season begins
WASHINGTON—Public schools around the country are opening doors with increased security measures, heightened anxiety, and concerns about testing scores. Those are the challenges facing teachers. Many schools are facing critical shortages of counselors, teachers and bus drivers. Students have similar concerns. There is bullying, an increase in suicides, and self-harm, and many students are still recovering from COVID-19 learning...
Poor communities combat military pollutants
CHARLENEM Activists charge environmental racism, and genocide (FinalCall.com) - Dorothy Bradshaw knows devastation. Her father passed away from cancer in late March. Her grandmother passed away after just six months of being diagnosed with an aggressive, rare form of bladder cancer in 1995 and when her grandfather died of the cancer a year later, she recalled a letter sent by a...
‘Profiting off crime on every level’ The exploitation of incarcerated people and their families generates $80B for private corporations
Crime pays, especially if you’re a for-profit contractor providing services at correctional institutions. From medical and mental health care to pharmaceutical services to transportation to food services and communications services, these services cost the incarcerated a “pretty penny.” Imagine working for $1.25 an hour or receiving only $20 a month for full-time work. Adding insult to injury are the...
Memories of a son and a quest for justice
(FinalCall.com) - It has been one-year-and two- months since Stanley Ridley learned that a Westchester, N.Y., grand jury would not indict four police officers accused in the killing of his son, police officer Christopher Ridley. On Jan. 25, 2008, Off. Ridley, 23, with one year of service on the Mt. Vernon Police Department was visiting nearby White Plains, N.Y....