By Kweku Ramel Akyirefi Smith, PhD The Black community did not need the novel coronavirus to shed light on how our community is continually, disproportionately and negatively affected by historical emotional and medical trauma. African descendants of slavery in the United States have been shown for centuries that we must work twice as hard to […]
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Are My Hands Clean?
A Commentary By Dr. Sylvia Bartley I consider myself to be a socially aware person with a passion and love for my community. I do my best to give back in a meaningful way. Giving back to my community is a core value I hold close to my heart. I’m mindful of the racial disparities, […]
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What About the Children?
By LaKeshia Myers While states debate the probability of shuttering their “safer at home” policies, one key constituency is yet again left behind, school children. With the 2019-20 academic year abruptly interrupted—many teachers and students were left to fend for themselves. Lack of disaster planning forced schools into a frenzy, hurriedly switching modalities from the […]
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Practicing Law in a Pandemic
By Gloria J. Browne-Marshall Gloria J. Browne-Marshall: The U.S. Supreme Court’s building will be closed to the public. Under the Sixth Amendment, “in all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial.” These are unprecedented times for the practice of law. People in jail, accused of a crime, with […]
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Almost Doesn’t Count: The Wisconsin Legislature Needs to Get Back to Work
By LaKeshia Myers COVID-19 has taken hold across our country and forced us to reconsider what we deem “essential” and has upended “business as usual.” While our governor has been diligent in advocating for more testing, requesting federal intervention, and asking residents to stay home, some policymakers have decided that a “hands off” approach is […]
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PPP Loans Allow Some to Hang On During Pandemic
Legislatively Speaking By Senator Lena C. Taylor Under the CARES Act, the federal government allocated $349 billion dollars to assist small businesses struggling to stay afloat during the COVID-19 pandemic. Many folks assumed that millions of businesses could be helped with that kind of money. We quickly found out that we were wrong. The Paycheck […]
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People of Color and the Pandemic
Gloria J. Browne-Marshall: This is “Law of the Land.” It was known as early as March, that there was a disproportionate impact, disparities, around race. We want to delve into what those disparities may be and what might have caused them. We know that people of color are on the front lines in our service […]
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COMMENTARY: The Political and Healthcare System is Broken and Corrupt in America
By Roger Caldwell NNPA Newswire Contributor “History is bound to repeat itself. Look at what went wrong in 1918 (Spanish Flu). Then do the opposite,” said the History Channel. President Woodrow Wilson was the American President in 1918, when 675,000 Americans died as a result of the Spanish Flu and over 20 to 50 million […]
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Special Session: Overdue and Undervalued
Legislatively Speaking By Senator Lena C. Taylor Early in March, the 13th to be exact, I made an initial request that the Wisconsin State Legislature take up a special session to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic. The Legislature finally met on April 15. Understanding both the obvious and unintended consequences of policy decisions to minimize […]
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The Passion of The Vote
By LaKeshia Myers Where you there when they crucified my Lord? Where you there when they crucified my Lord? Oh, sometimes it causes me to tremble, tremble, tremble! were you there when they crucified my Lord? ~Negro Spiritual “Father, I cannot forgive them for they know exactly what they do!” I said to myself silently […]
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