By State Senator LaTonya Johnson Represents Wisconsin’s 6th Senate District and lives in Milwaukee COVID-19 cases are skyrocketing in Wisconsin. Our hospitals are almost at full capacity. The economy is in shambles. And Black and brown communities are being hit the hardest. It didn’t have to be this bad. For months, President Donald Trump downplayed […]
We Need a Plan for Black America
By Joanne Sabir Co-Founder of the Sherman Phoenix and was recently named one of Milwaukee Business Journal’s “Community Executives of the Year” and “2020 Women of Influence.” She and her husband, Maanaan, own and operate The Shindig, LLC. Two weeks ago, I had the opportunity to sit down with Sen. Kamala Harris to discuss challenges […]
Our Faith In Democracy and One Another is Being Tested
Legislatively Speaking By Senator Lena C. Taylor Separation of state and church. At one time or another, most of us have heard, uttered, invoked, discussed or argued this idea, without fully understanding the origin of the concept. Many people are unaware that the actual words “separation of church and state” are not contained in the […]
Frankie Beverly Endorses Joe Biden and Kamala Harris
The soulful R&B singer Frankie Beverly of MAZE, has endorsed the democratic nominee, Joe Biden for President of the United States and Kamala Harris for Vice President of the United States On National Black Voter Day — Frankie Beverly is going on record to say that he is endorsing Joe Biden and Kamala Harris. He simply […]
Racial Equity
By Nadiyah Johnson This week, we learned from reports that Donald Trump downplayed the threat of COVID-19. Black Wisconsinites have borne the brunt of the the pandemic’s infections and deaths and job loss, because Trump intentionally didn’t do his job. Now, we are all living with the immense economic consequences of his failure to lead. […]
A Throne of Lies
By LaKeshia N. Myers “The truth doesn’t cost anything, but a lie can cost you everything,” my mother said as she scolded me for lying about cutting my hair. I was seven years old and had come up with an elaborate tale about how one of my ponytails ended up significantly shorter than the other. […]
Price Controls Rob Patients of Future Therapies
By Peter J. Pitts President Donald Trump just announced a sweeping executive order that’d forbid Medicare from paying more for advanced medicines than any other developed country. This price control scheme, if implemented, would sound a death knell for medical innovation – and potentially for many patients. Drug development is expensive, time-consuming and full of […]
Have You Seen My Childhood? The Silent Epidemic of Rapid Adultification of Black Males
By LaKeshia N. Myers “I just don’t know what to do, he’s so big,” I was stunned when she said it. Matter-of-fact, I was rendered temporarily speechless by the statement. I was acting as a new teacher mentor when my mentee, a young twenty-something white woman told me she was unable to effectively control her […]
She Will Answer
By Amelia Ashley-Ward Publisher, San Francisco Sun Reporter Newspaper I reached out to congratulate my friend Kamala Harris shortly after she accepted the nomination to become the Democratic Party’s candidate for Vice President of the United States of America. She is, in fact, the first African American woman to be selected to be vice president […]
Kamala Harris: Making History While Remembering Her-story
By Gloria J. Browne-Marshall Kamala D. Harris is the Democratic nominee for Vice-President of the United States. Her acceptance speech was laced with reflections about her late South-Asian mother and the Black women who laid the path for this moment. Due to COVID-19 and social distancing, the Democratic National Convention was without fanfare. But her […]
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