By The Madison Times Staff March 13, 2015 Photo: Hedi Rudd. Tragic. Heart-wrenching. Difficult to fathom. Those are just a few of the emotions that arise when attempting to understand the shooting death of 19-year-old Tony Robinson by a Madison police officer. The death of Robinson has triggered protests by hundreds of […]
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Urban Renewal is About Urban Removal: Part 1
By Rahim Islam March 13, 2015 Rahim Islam Where you start matters! For the Black community in America the economic start has been so disproportionate and bankrupting that so called “ghettos” and the Black community go hand-in-hand. This has created an accepted stigma of inferiority about Black people and Black neighborhoods. […]
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To Be Equal: Rhetoric of Race at the Crossroads of Police Reform
By Marc H. Morial, NNPA Columnist March 6, 2015 “Much research points to the widespread existence of unconscious bias… We all – white and black – carry various biases around with us. I am reminded of the song “Everyone’s a Little Bit Racist” from the Broadway hit, Avenue Q: ‘Look around and you […]
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Democrats Still Searching for Winning Formula
By Julianne Malveaux, NNPA Columnist March 6, 2015 Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel just got spanked. Despite a campaign war chest of more than $15 million and the support of President Barack Obama, the former Congressman and White House chief of staff could not avoid a run-off in the non-partisan election. Garnering 45 […]
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How Walker’s Sidestep May Grant Timely Insight
By Eelisa Jones February 27, 2015 When New York’s Republican Mayor, Rudy Giuliani, told a room packed with fellow GOP members that our 44th President had no love for The United State of America, he succeeded in complicating the campaign trails for a number of high-profile potential candidates for the 2016 presidential race. […]
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DuBois and Trotter: My Civil Rights Heroes
By George E. Curry, NNPA Columnist February 27, 2015 George E. Curry, NNPA Columnist In the interest of full disclosure, I have been a W.E.B. DuBois fanatic since my teenage years in Tuscaloosa, Ala. I have a healthy collection of books by and about DuBois, including David Levering Lewis’ two-volume biography of […]
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God Made Man in His Own Image, Why? Part 4
By Rahim Islam February 20, 2015 Rahim Islam Continued from last week Sir John Newton, famous Christian hymn writers, was a slave trader. He wrote “How sweet the Name of Jesus Sounds” and “Amazing Grace.” The name of one of the most famous British slave vessels was “Jesus.” The Christian […]
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God Made Man in His Own Image, Why? Part 3
By Rahim Islam February 13, 2015 Rahim Islam Continued from last week Man has abused his position by portraying himself as the God and has led man down a poisonous path that supports hate of other humans and the destruction of the earth. We hear about the ultimate friction between […]
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Equal Opportunities Commission Response to Recent Research on Madison and Dane County
By Bill Fetty on behalf of the Equal Opportunities Commission February 13, 2015 In September of 2014, Livability magazine published an article reporting Madison, WI as the top 100 places to live in the United States of America. This is based on our great university, research investment, and jobs. The article also indicated […]
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Did NBC’s Brian Williams Also Lie About Hurricane Katrina?
By George E. Curry, NNPA Columnist February 13, 2015 George E. Curry, NNPA Columnist “NBC Nightly News” anchor Brian Williams has finally admitted that he had incorrectly asserted that a helicopter he traveled aboard in 2002 while reporting on the Iraq War in 2003 was hit by a rocket-propelled grenade, forcing an […]
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