Kweku’s Korner By Dr. Kweku Akyirefi Amoasi I was once told the best quality about a cup is its emptiness. Not its size. Not its color. Not its handle. Not its special design. But the emptiness. It’s the hollow part that makes the cup useful. If it’s empty, it can be filled. But it must […]
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Headline Thoughts #10: Turning Points
BlackEconomics.org® This “Headline Thoughts” is unlike any other. We dispense with our usual formalness and present raw issues in raw form. These are not “headlines” per se. Rather, they are haunting thoughts about turning points that are on our mind. We believe that they should be on your mind, which motivated our production of this […]
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Strange and Familiar Fruit: Remembering, Resisting, and Refusing to Forget
Say Something Real By Michelle Bryant There are songs that haunt the American soul, but none more so than “Strange Fruit.” First made famous by Billie Holiday in 1939, its mournful melody and searing lyrics hold a mirror to the ugliest chapters of our nation’s past. Lynching. Recently, I heard a pastor say, “You can’t […]
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Listening to Yesterday
Kweku’s Korner By Dr. Kweku Akyirefi Amoasi One of the most powerful scenes in the movie “Black Panther” is when T’Challa goes to the realm of the ancestors to talk to his father after he is crowned King and Black Panther. He meets his father, T’Chaka, and tells him how much he loves him and […]
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Wisconsin Finally Takes a Step Toward Electoral Efficiency
By LaKeshia N. Myers After years of watching Wisconsin suffer through election nights with delayed results and manufactured controversy, I’m thrilled to see Republican lawmakers finally embracing common-sense election reforms. The reintroduction of legislation allowing clerks to begin processing absentee ballots on the Monday before election day isn’t just good policy – it’s essential for […]
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‘Durability’ and Failure to Produce Black American (Afrodescendant) Success
BlackEconomics.org® “Durability” is the operative term in the topic for this essay. But it is critical that we clarify the type of “durability” involved. We will let the “cat out of the bag” up front and then reveal the reasoning as we received it. The political economy and public choice literature is definitive on our […]
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Spewing Poison: How Inflammatory Rhetoric Fuels Political Polarization
By LaKeshia N. Myers “Mind your tongue,” my grandmother would say. Her favorite scripture was James 3:1-2, in which the author admonishes readers to bridle their tongue as a sign of spiritual maturity. I was reminded of that this week, in the aftermath of Charlie Kirk’s death. His killing serves as a stark reminder that […]
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9/11: Twenty-Four Years Later
Say Something Real The Evolving Threat to American Security By Michelle Bryant In marking the 24th anniversary of the September 11th (9/11) attacks, Americans once again gathered to remember the lives lost and heroism displayed in the face of unprecedented tragedy. However, this year’s remembrance comes with a growing sense of unease. Grounded in facts […]
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The S Word
Kweku’s Korner By Dr. Kweku Akyirefi Amoasi Why are we afraid to talk about Suicide? It happens all the time. We talk about murder (homicide) daily. We see it on the local and national news daily. In Wisconsin, there were 227 murders committed in 2022 and 263 in 2023. Now compare that to the number […]
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When We Are Advocating for Policy and Change to Better the Lives of Black Wisconsinites, It Benefits Everyone
Dear Black Caucus Members and Allies, Next week, the caucus and members begin a series of events and activities around the state to mobilize our communities and uplift Black leadership in our state. This is a part of our larger strategy to build a Black policy agenda that demonstrates the commonality our communities share with […]