By Jeremy Mitchell Community Organizer in Southeast Wisconsin As Hip-Hop Week MKE returns, I rewatched what I think is one of the funnier municipal moments in recent Milwaukee history. The video is from a January 2018 City of Milwaukee Common Council Community and Economic Development Committee meeting that discussed the potential for the first Hip-Hop […]
EXCEPT WHERE INDICATED, THE OPINIONS EXPRESSED ON THIS PAGE ARE NOT NECESSARILY THOSE OF THE MADISON TIMES
EXCEPT WHERE INDICATED, THE OPINIONS EXPRESSED ON THIS PAGE ARE NOT NECESSARILY THOSE OF THE MADISON TIMES
A Letter to Green Bay Packers Quarterback Jordan Love
Dear Jordan, I am writing this letter to you as a sports fan and as a fellow Black man. As I begin to form my thoughts to you, I can already hear some in the distance exclaim, “Why do you say fellow Black man? Isn’t Jordan Love biracial?” I say fellow Black man, Jordan, as […]
EXCEPT WHERE INDICATED, THE OPINIONS EXPRESSED ON THIS PAGE ARE NOT NECESSARILY THOSE OF THE MADISON TIMES
Wisconsin Assembly Speaker Robin Vos Says no to Affirmative Action and DEI in Wisconsin
By Jeremy Mitchell Recently I read that Wisconsin Assembly Speaker Robin Vos said that the assembly would, “…introduce legislation to correct the discriminatory laws on the books and pass repeals in the fall.” Weeks before that statement the Speaker gave comments asserting his belief that, “The overt racism, the overt exclusion, the overt indoctrination is […]