Legislatively Speaking By Senator Lena C. Taylor The Story of Blacks in America Will Forever Be Told It’s hard to trace the exact origins of the saying “You Can Kill the Messenger, But Not the Message.” While research has pinpointed the adage’s roots to the Middle Ages, many also associate the idiom with ancient wars […]
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Pride Comes In Many Forms
Legislatively Speaking By Senator Lena C. Taylor Every June, Pride Month is celebrated to raise awareness of the LGBTQI+ community. It is a time to reflect on the lives, families, contributions and issues of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people. According to History.com, far from the celebrations we see today, the first documented U.S. gay […]
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Gun Violence Continues to Take a Toll
Legislatively Speaking By Senator Lena C. Taylor Last week, I was checking my calendar for upcoming events, when I noticed a reminder: Remember to wear orange on Friday…… If Hadiya Pendleton were alive today, she would be twenty-five years old. You can’t help but wonder what this young woman’s future would have held. As a […]
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Climbing The Hill
Legislatively Speaking By Senator Lena C. Taylor The Problem of Undiversified, Inequitable and Exclusionary Policies In 1940, George Orwell wrote: “Almost certainly we are moving into an age of totalitarian dictatorships – an age in which freedom of thought will be at first a deadly sin and later on a meaningless abstraction. The autonomous individual […]
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These Last Two Dollars: Pushing Against the Debt Ceiling Deadline
Legislatively Speaking By Senator Lena C. Taylor Blues legend Johnnie Taylor sang about what’s it’s like to be down on your luck… “Just loan me two dollars, Until the next time I see you.” Released in 1997, Last Two Dollars was an instant hit, resonating across race, socioeconomic status and educational lines. Common experiences would […]
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A Down Payment on A Promise
Legislatively Speaking By Senator Lena C. Taylor In the Spring 2020 election, many Milwaukee voters went to their polling locations to find nearly 97% of them closed. For those lucky enough to see a news broadcast, hear it from a friend, or possibly visit the Election Commission website, they learned that Milwaukee had reduced their […]
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Leveraging Debt to Do More Harm
Legislatively Speaking By Senator Lena C. Taylor Never kick a man when he is down. Yet, on both the state and national level, there are Republican-led policy proposals poised to do just that. Whether the federal debt ceiling or the state shared revenue discussions, it is clear that much needed resources for our citizens and […]
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Same Facts, Different Outcomes
Legislatively Speaking By Senator Lena C. Taylor Does Expanding the U.S. Supreme Court Really Change Anything? Just the facts, mam. This is a movie line I remember all too well from the remake of Dragnet, featuring Dan Aykroyd and Tom Hanks. It represented a clean and clear way to solve a case, get at the […]
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“Baby Blues” or Something More
Legislatively Speaking By Senator Lena C. Taylor Next week is Black Maternal Health Week. It is a lead up to International Maternal Mental Health Month, which is observed during the month of May. And if I am honest, as a young mother I don’t know if I ever thought about either. My only child is […]
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Tennessee Is Our New Old Normal
Legislatively Speaking By Senator Lena C. Taylor Race. Power. Money. Writer and philosopher George Santayana said “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” Well, it seems like Tennessee’s Republican state legislators are either too indolent, oblivious, or willfully resistant to understanding the state’s mistakes of old. Some of those errors include […]
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