By Jesse Jackson Last week, President Trump, in a rambling stump speech in Montana, bizarrely compared his oratory to that of Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address, arguing (incorrectly) that Lincoln was “ridiculed” for the speech. “He was excoriated by the fake news. …Fifty years after his death, they said it may have been the greatest speech […]
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Commentary: There is A Black Wave Sweeping Across the State of Florida
By Roger Caldwell NNPA Newswire Contributor Many political experts and pundits will admit that their polls were wrong, when they discuss which Democratic candidate would win the Florida governor’s primary election. When a candidate like Jeff Greene comes into a campaign and spends $34 million, and Philip Levine spends $28 million, you must begin to […]
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Has Foxconn Changed its Business Stripes?
Capitol Report By State Representative, Leon D. Young On its face, it looks like an extraordinary generous gift and would be the largest investment from a research partner in the University of Wisconsin’s history. Foxconn Technology Group has pledged up to $100 million to the University of Wisconsin-Madison, including funding to help establish a new […]
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When Talking About Suicide Awareness, Hope Matters
Legislatively Speaking By Senator, Lena C. Taylor Young people around the country sharpened their pencils and strapped their backpacks on for the start of another exciting school year. As I joined others in greeting students at Maple Tree Elementary School this week, the significance of the day was not lost on any of us. I […]
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We Are Witnessing History
Legislatively Speaking By Senator, Lena C. Taylor In the 242 years of this country’s history, we have only seen four African-Americans hold the seat of Governor. Pinckney Benton Stewart Pinchback was the first African American to become governor of a U.S. state. He won election to the Louisiana State Senate in 1868 and became the […]
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Automatic Voter Registration: It’s a No-brainer
Capitol Report By State Representative, Leon D. Young Automatic (or automated) voter registration can be seen as new, or it can be seen as an updated version of processes put in place by the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 (NVRA). That law, also known as “motor voter,” pioneered a new way of registering to […]
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Proposed EPA Roll-Backs Have Air of Injustice
By Felicia M. Davis Director of the HBCU Green Fund and on the boards of Green 2.0 and The National Coalition on Black Civic Participation. President Trump visiting West Virginia to announce a major rollback in regulations limiting coal fired power plant emissions feels like being lost in a dark coal mine, reaching a fork […]
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Trump’s Ongoing Scandals Mask a Radical Agenda that Hurts Everyday People
By Jesse Jackson Trump’s serial scandals—Stormy Daniels, the Russia investigation, the Paul Manafort verdict, the Cohen guilty plea, the juvenile tweets—fill the headlines. Beneath the noise, however, Trump’s appointees and the Republican Congress are relentlessly pursuing a radical right-wing agenda that is gutting basic protections for workers, consumers and the environment. This is often characterized […]
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Milwaukee’s Addiction Crisis Hits Close to Home for All of Us
By U.S. Senator Tammy Baldwin Earlier this year, I decided to tell a very personal story that I hadn’t shared with many people before. I often talk about being raised by my grandparents, especially during discussions in Milwaukee about the importance of strengthening Social Security or Medicare, supporting family caregivers or bringing down skyrocketing prescription […]
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Verizon Slows Internet While Firefighters Needed it to Save Lives
Legislatively Speaking By Senator, Lena C. Taylor Social Implications of Trump’s Changes to Internet Access In May, I joined my Democratic colleagues on the state and federal level in denouncing the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) decision to repeal Net Neutrality rules. Net Neutrality was intended to keep the internet free and accessible, while treating all […]
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