By Lindsey Gapin March 13, 2015 Photo: Hedi Rudd. A veteran Madison police officer shot and killed a 19-year-old African-American man around 6:30 p.m. on Friday, March 6, 2015. The unarmed teenager is identified as Anthony “Tony” Robinson Jr., a 2014 graduate from Sun Prairie High School. According to police, Robinson […]
ON THE SCENE: Community Reacts to Fatal Shooting of Unarmed Man: Tony Robinson
By Aubrey Koski, Photos by Hedi Rudd March 13, 2015 Addtional ON THE SCENE photos are provided at the end of this article. MADISON, WI — In response to the tragic shooting that took place Friday, the Madison community voices a broad spectrum of opinions and concerns surrounding the death of Tony […]
EXCEPT WHERE INDICATED, THE OPINIONS EXPRESSED ON THIS PAGE ARE NOT NECESSARILY THOSE OF THE MADISON TIMES
SPECIAL EDITORIAL: Police Shooting
By The Madison Times Staff March 13, 2015 Photo: Hedi Rudd. Tragic. Heart-wrenching. Difficult to fathom. Those are just a few of the emotions that arise when attempting to understand the shooting death of 19-year-old Tony Robinson by a Madison police officer. The death of Robinson has triggered protests by hundreds of […]
Ferguson, MO Police Chief Resigns
By Jim Salter, Associated Press March 13, 2015 In this Aug. 15, 2014 file photo, Ferguson Police Chief Thomas Jackson releases the name of the officer accused of fatally shooting Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo. On Friday, March 6, 2015, Jackson is still on the job, two days after a government report criticized his […]
Marcia Légère Student Play Festival Showcases Three Original Plays
By Vanessa Jenkins March 13, 2015 Students from the University of Wisconsin-Madison will present three original plays at the 24th annual Marcia Légère Student Play Festival at the Wisconsin Union Theater on Friday March 21 and Saturday March 22 at 7:30 p.m. in the Fredric March Play Circle downtown Madison, Wisconsin. The […]
Blacks Now Finishing High School at Record Levels
By Jazelle Hunt, NNPA Washington Correspondent March 13, 2015 In this May 5, 2014 photo, Krishaun Branch, left, moves the tassel on his mortarboard to the left side after graduating from Fisk University in Nashville, Tenn. (AP Photo/Mark Humphrey) WASHINGTON, D.C. (NNPA) — After 30 years of little to no progress, Black […]
VOICES: A Relentless Crusader for Diversity is Lost
By Brent Jones March 13, 2015 Dori J. Maynard (Photo: Jane Tyska, Oakland Tribune via AP) Journalism lost a courageous soldier this week. Dori J. Maynard, 56, who died Tuesday of lung cancer, didn't report in combat zones. She had no battle scars to show. Dori's fight was of a […]
Anniversary of Selma March Rekindles Ferguson Comparisons
By Jesse J. Holland, Associated Press March 13, 2015 In this March 13, 1965 file photo, a line of police officers hold back demonstrators who attempted to march to the courthouse in Selma, Ala. Police kept the demonstrators hemmed up in a square block area where they attempted several times to break through. (AP […]
A Brief Biography of Lorraine Hansberry
By Eelisa Jones March 13, 2015 Lorraine Vivian Hansberry III was an activist, author and playwright born in Chicago on May 19, 1930. She was the first African-American writer to have works appear on Broadway. Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun remains her best-known play, which centered on the experiences of black individuals […]
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Urban Renewal is About Urban Removal: Part 1
By Rahim Islam March 13, 2015 Rahim Islam Where you start matters! For the Black community in America the economic start has been so disproportionate and bankrupting that so called “ghettos” and the Black community go hand-in-hand. This has created an accepted stigma of inferiority about Black people and Black neighborhoods. […]