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 […]
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NFL preseason officially starts with Hall of Fame Game
By Chuck Duane Collier The NFL preseason started August 10, 2023. The NFL is the most popular of the American sports and the NFL’s preseason start was highly anticipated by fans all over the country. The Jets and Browns played in the Hall of Fame Game. The Jets lost to the Browns 21-16. Star quarterback […]
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What Your Alder’s Favorite Rapper Might Tell You About Them
By Jeremy Mitchell Community Organizer in Southeast Wisconsin As Hip-Hop Week MKE returns, I rewatched what I think is one of the funnier municipal moments in recent Milwaukee history. The video is from a January 2018 City of Milwaukee Common Council Community and Economic Development Committee meeting that discussed the potential for the first Hip-Hop […]
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China Gets by With a Little Help From its Friends — on the Supreme Court
By Paul Michel Former Chief Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit China is overtaking America in a variety of high-tech industries — thanks to some inadvertent help from the U.S. Supreme Court. According to a brand-new report from the Australian Strategic Policy Institute, the communist nation has outstripped America in […]
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Student Loan Debt Solutions Still Exist
Legislatively Speaking By Senator Lena C. Taylor For those hoping to see the Biden/Harris administration’s student loan forgiveness initiatives survive legal challenges, you are likely feeling pretty anxious right now. Private for-profit colleges and trade schools, in Texas, are the latest to challenge new administration rules that would forgive the loans of those defrauded by […]
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