By Lauren Victoria Burke NNPA Newswire Contributor In 2010 in New York City, 601,285 people were stopped-and-frisked by the New York City Police and 315,083 of them were Black. In 2011, 685,724 individuals were stopped and 350,743 were Black. Over 90 percent of those stopped by police where African American or Hispanic. Michael Bloomberg was […]
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The Affordable Care Act: Still Standing
Legislatively Speaking By Senator Lena C. Taylor It’s hard to believe it’s been two and a half years since Congressional Republicans trotted out their American Health Care Act. Introduced in early 2017, the act was going to be the long-awaited replacement in their promise to repeal the Affordable Care Act (ACA). The proposal was short-lived, […]
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Thank you, Kamala!
By Amelia Ashley-Ward Publisher of Sun Reporter We were saddened when United States Sen. Kamala Harris announced the end to her 2020 United States Presidential bid this week. When we see a brilliant female freedom for all fighter, who looks like us, we are hungry and excited for spirited competition. We believed like Harris, that […]
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“This Right Here”
Legislatively Speaking By Senator Lena C. Taylor Zimmerman’s Twisted Dance With Justice You may not know the name of them, but if you use social media, you have definitely seen a “GIF”. In its simplest form, a GIF is a still image. However, the GIF format has a special feature that can also be used […]
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Suffragist Coralie Franklin Cook: First Descendant of Monticello Slave to Graduate College
By Stacy M. Brown Special to The Washington Informer This is part of an ongoing Washington Informer series about the Women’s Suffrage Movement and an initiative that includes Informer Publisher Denise Rolark Barnes that will use the lens of history, the fabric of art and culture and the venue of the public square to shine […]
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Positive Partnerships Needed in Education
By State Superintendent Carolyn Stanford Taylor During my childhood, I found myself in a challenging school environment. Through no fault of myself or my siblings, our peers did not welcome us. It was the civil rights era and we had recently enrolled as the first black children in the well-funded “white school” in my Southern […]
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Gun Sanctuary Counties Are a Misnomer
Legislatively Speaking By Senator Lena C. Taylor By now, many of you have heard that Wisconsin’s Florence County has passed a resolution declaring the county as a Second Amendment sanctuary, or “gun sanctuary county” as such designations have been commonly referred. Joining a handful of states and municipalities around the nation, the Wisconsin county has […]
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For Wisconsin, Education is the Key to the Future
By LaKeshia Myers This week has been a very good week for education in Wisconsin. Gov. Tony Evers signed three pertinent pieces of legislation that are sure to pave the way for our state’s future as we continue to shed our rustbelt image. The first, Assembly Bill 51, now Wisconsin Act 35 modifies the eligibility […]
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The Right to Vote Should Not Fall Victim to Partisan Battles
By Jesse Jackson The right to vote is fundamental to any democracy. Protecting that right — and making it easier to exercise it — ought to be a priority across partisan lines. Instead, in states across the country — particularly in the five years since the Supreme Court gutted the Voting Rights Act — it […]
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Autonomy vs. Equity: Why A Convention of the States Would be Detrimental to People of Color
By LaKeshia Myers While the Wisconsin State Assembly received quite a bit of attention last week at its last floor session of 2019 due to deliberating the official name of the capitol evergreen (yes, it is in fact a Christmas tree); the political rumblings during the Federalism and Interstate Relations committee were, in my opinion, […]
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