From Final Call News
April 5, 2012
Nationwide, there has been outpouring of grief mixed with outrage resulting from the shooting death of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin. Trayvon’s father Tracy Martin was recently interviewed by FCN Staff Writer Jesse ...
Posted Saturday, April 7th 2012 at 3:58PM
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Peace,
Our Enslavement, which is refer to as "Slavery", should be looked at, not just for its negative humiliating aspects, but, for it's empowering legacy of those that conquered their enslavement. We should be using it as other people use their ...
Posted Friday, April 6th 2012 at 12:06PM
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CHICAGO (CBS) ¡ª A former railroad police detective was sentenced to 40 years in prison Thursday for attempted murder, convicted of shooting at Chicago Police officers who fired back several times.
CBS 2¡äs Marissa Bailey reports the sentence was ...
Posted Friday, April 6th 2012 at 11:51AM
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iVillage.com--Tyler Perry is one of the most powerful entertainers in Hollywood, but that still didn't stop him from being harassed by the police, he says. The Georgia-based filmmaker is accusing the Atlanta police department of treating him in a hos ...
Posted Thursday, April 5th 2012 at 11:20AM
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Dallas --Tornadoes tore through the Dallas area Tuesday, peeling roofs off homes, tossing big-rig trucks into the air and leaving flattened tractor-trailers strewn along highways and parking lots.
The National Weather Service confirmed at least t ...
Posted Wednesday, April 4th 2012 at 11:55AM
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(AP) Tyler Perry hopes Whitney Houston’s daughter Bobbi Kristina Brown can do for his TBS sitcom “For Better or Worse” what she did for Oprah Winfrey Network.
Record ratings.
Perry’s cast Bobbi Kristina in a recurring role in the sitcom, which ...
Posted Monday, April 2nd 2012 at 12:27PM
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Juanita Hall (November 6, 1901 – February 28, 1968) was an American musical theatre and film actress. She is remembered for her roles in the original stage and screen versions of the Rodgers and Hammerstein musicals South Pacific as Bloody Mary and F ...
Posted Saturday, March 31st 2012 at 5:34PM
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HUNTSVILLE, AL (WAFF) -Alabama A&M's president is trying to distance himself and the University from next month's appearance by Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan.
Dr. Andrew Hugine, Jr. said in a news release that his administration did not e ...
Posted Saturday, March 31st 2012 at 4:39PM
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NORTH CAROLINA---As they buried a Hoke County couple killed in their front yard last weekend, family members said Thursday that they are still struggling to make sense of the tragedy.
Tommy Charles Brown Sr., 35, and his fiancée, Thalia Rebbecca M ...
Posted Saturday, March 31st 2012 at 4:33PM
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By Clay Routledge, Ph.D.
March 30, 2012
The recent killing of Trayvon Martin, an unarmed black male teen, in Florida has reignited discussions regarding the problem of racism in modern America. Though all the facts of the incident are not yet cl ...
Posted Saturday, March 31st 2012 at 4:28PM
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Sarah E. Goode (born Sarah E. Jacob) was born into slavery in about 1850.
She gained her freedom at the end of the Civil War and moved to Chicago shortly after. In Chicago she met and married Archibald Goode, a carpenter.
The idea of being ma ...
Posted Friday, March 30th 2012 at 11:34AM
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CATECHUMENS, HOUSE OF (called also Casa dei Neofiti) was a Roman institution for converting Jews to Catholicism, which the Jews, by means of taxes, were compelled to support. The Vatican founded this house for converts March 21, 1548 (Rieger, ii. 64) ...
Posted Friday, March 30th 2012 at 10:33AM
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NEW ORLEANS -- Hundreds of students from Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Charter School marched on the streets of New Orleans in hooded sweatshirts Monday and demanded justice for the death of Trayvon Martin.
Martin, 17, was a Florida student killed la ...
Posted Thursday, March 29th 2012 at 3:08PM
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DETROIT (WJBK) - Minister Malik Shabazz made headlines when he made this impassioned remark at a Detroit financial review meeting on Monday: "This is white supremacy, and we will fight you. Before you can take over our city, we will burn it down firs ...
Posted Thursday, March 29th 2012 at 2:58PM
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Fannie Lou Hamer (born Fannie Lou Townsend) was born October 6, 1917, in Montgomery County, Mississippi. She was the granddaughter of slaves. Her family were sharecroppers - a position not that different from slavery. Hamer had 19 brothers and sister ...
Posted Wednesday, March 28th 2012 at 11:54AM
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By Li Onesto
March 27, 2012
The February 26 murder of Trayvon Martin has ignited outrage around the country and reminded us once again of this cold hard fact of life in the USA.
That if you¡¯re Black, and especially if you¡¯re young, male, and ...
Posted Wednesday, March 28th 2012 at 11:43AM
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CNN--Irish singer songwriter Sinead O’Connor has posted an open letter to Treyvon Martin’s family on her website. The controversial singer expressed her sympathy towards the Martin family whose teenage son was shot in Sanford, Florida by neighborhood ...
Posted Tuesday, March 27th 2012 at 11:02AM
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AP--Aretha Franklin has a lot more than her 70th birthday to celebrate: She's reuniting with one of her musical mentors, Clive Davis, for a new album.
In an interview at her swanky birthday party on Saturday, Franklin said she and Davis, who help ...
Posted Sunday, March 25th 2012 at 5:51PM
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Blaze.com--As federal and local authorities investigate the killing of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin, and whether or not Florida’s “stand your ground” law applied to the shooter, George Zimmerman, Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan has been calling ...
Posted Sunday, March 25th 2012 at 5:47PM
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Hey Mr. Taaffee. This is George. Um, first and foremost, I wanted to say I am very sorry for the loss of your son, and, um, I can't imagine what you must be going through. Um, secondly, I wanted to thank you for doing everything you've been doing ...
Posted Saturday, March 24th 2012 at 1:20PM
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