BlackEconomics.org® Introduction Those knowledgeable of the political economy recognize that US “democracy” is far from pure. BlackEconomics.org has highlighted many times the sway—near total control even—that oligarchs and plutocrats and their enterprises have over the political economy. For example, the airline industry reflects and projects inordinate power. We will discuss this power below as we […]
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Top Five Packer Players of All-Time
By Charles Collier I have compiled a list of the top five players in Packer history. Reggie White (Minister of Defense). White was an ordained minister. Every Sunday White preyed on NFL Quarterbacks, and they prayed for safety and protection. White was one of the most dominant defensive linemen to ever play the game. At […]
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Rep. Myers’ Summer Reading List #3: The ‘Girl Power’ Edition
By LaKeshia N. Myers Women are fifty percent of the American population, yet their perspectives have historically been ignored. In my quest to ramp up my reading this summer, I chose to focus on reading books by female authors. The women’s liberation movement had a bevy of female writers whose works created shifts in political […]
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Lead Lateral Replacement Timeline Doesn’t Add Up
Legislatively Speaking By Senator Lena C. Taylor A few weeks ago, I was at an event with Vice President Kamala Harris. In her remarks, she mentioned federal funding to help replace lead lateral service lines across the country. Milwaukee continues to grapple with this threat to our residents’ health. Like other communities, we have lead-contaminated […]
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Doing It Wrong All Along
BlackEconomics.org Let us begin by recalling two important facts. First, one cannot keep doing the same thing and expect a different outcome. Second, as of 2020, there were about 3.8 million Black American businesses, about 95 percent of which were non-employers. That is, they were small one-person operations with average receipts sufficient to survive at […]
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Rep. Myers’ Summer Book Review: The Shattering
By LaKeshia N. Myers As promised, I am sharing reviews of some of the books I’m reading this summer. As a historian, I took interest in a book called The Shattering. The Shattering chronicles the multilayered and multifaceted growing pains of modern America. Through humor, contextualization, and historical anecdotes, Kevin Boyle weaves the story of […]
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AI May Be the Future, But for Blacks It Continues Problems of the Past
Legislatively Speaking By Senator Lena C. Taylor It’s hard to miss all the stories discussing Artificial Intelligence or AI, as it’s called for short. Seemingly, the hottest new thing, the reality is that AI has been around for quite some time. In 1936, a mathematician, computer scientist, and theoretical biologist, by the name of Alan […]
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What You Don’t Know, Will Hurt You
By The Milwaukee Courier Editorial Staff A cow at the Wisconsin State Fair named after a racial slur for Black people led to the removal of the exhibitor from the fair. The award winning cow named Milgene Tatio Jigaboo was exhibited by Tianda Hildebrandt, 17. The Wisconsin State Fair apologized for the situation and apologies […]
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Black Americans Have Choices
BlackEconomics.org® Why are Black Americans so wedded to a system that is speaking clearly to us in no uncertain terms that “technology” in all its forms is preeminent, and that technology is likely to render us “null and void” or nonexistent? Let us be clear: BlackEconomics.org is not averse to technology, and that we do […]
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Report Brief: Why Racism? Black American Adverse Stereotypes in the WSJ
BlackEconomics.org® Background Race has always been a salient dilemma for the American society. Scholars, politicians, and laypersons alike continue to analyze race and racism. Sometimes, we bypass consideration of race and focus on racism and how to halt it. But to purge racism from society, one must fully comprehend its root causes. At BlackEconomics.org, we […]