By KaliMaa Free Do you want to hear a crazy reparation story? After the Haitian revolution in 1807, former French colonists were compensated up to $300 for each enslaved person who was freed. In total, Haiti was ordered to pay 21 billion dollars, which would be equivalent to about 522.58 billion dollars in 2024, in […]
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The Truth About That 40 Acres
Say Something Real Some Blacks Actually Received the Promised Land By Michelle Bryant For most of my life, I’ve heard the idiom “40 Acres and A Mule”. In the Black community, the phrase always represented a broken promise and the fact that America would never make good on reparations due to formerly enslaved Africans. However, […]
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Celebrating Juneteenth
On June 19th, 1865, Union troops arrived in Galveston, Texas to announce that the more than 250,000 enslaved African Americans in the last state under Confederate control were finally free– officially ending slavery in our country and marking the freedom of every single African American. This Juneteenth, I want to commemorate Wisconsin’s Black communities and […]
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A Father’s Love Part II
Kweku’s Korner Dedicated to Austin and Cameron Lee By Kweku Akyirefi Amoasi In Part I, we stated we would discuss five rules to demonstrate a father’s love. It was designed to be a rule book for those who plan to not just be a sperm donor, but to one who wants to honor a sacred […]
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Addressing Unemployment
By Dora Drake Wisconsin State Representative As Milwaukee continues to grapple with issues on education, mental health, literacy rates and transportation, there is one that continues to demand immediate attention: Black Unemployment. As a state representative and a member of this community, we need to address this crisis head on. Tackling unemployment on the northside […]
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Two Truths & A Lie: Understanding the Milwaukee Public Schools Debacle
By LaKeshia N. Myers I am MPS Proud. From Lloyd Street Global Education School, Grand Avenue Middle School, to Rufus King High School (aka the best school anywhere), my K-12 experience in Milwaukee Public Schools was one that I have often extolled and at times wax nostalgic for. I am also ashamed of MPS; ashamed […]
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The Gift that Keeps on Giving: Black America’s RDIS
BlackEconomics.org® In a White Supremacist world, it is expected that efforts would have been undertaken to influence Black Americans to believe that we had little-to-no power—especially economic power. Then “spending power” (now thought to be approaching $2.0 trillion) emerged as a counter claim to our powerlessness. More recently during the Covid-19 Pandemic, several submissions appeared […]
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Milwaukee Public Schools Prime for Takeover
Say Something Real Financial Turmoil Spells Trouble By Michelle Bryant “The math ain’t mathing” accurately sums up the recent financial turmoil facing Milwaukee Public Schools (MPS). Per Urban Dictionary, the popular phrase means that something doesn’t add up or when you are skeptical about something you are hearing or seeing. Over the last few days, […]
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A Fathers Love
Kweku’s Korner Dedicated to Joie Michael, Maya Alisia, Jonah Herman, Noah Robert, and Skye Alyxandra Kathryn By Kweku Akyirefi Amoasi There was a movie, a few decades ago, entitled “Mrs. Doubtfire.” This movie was about a man whose marriage had failed, and he felt his children were going to be taken from him. To stay […]
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It’s Time to Rip the Band-Aid Off
By Representative Dora Drake Our children are the future; they will become our next doctors, teachers, leaders, nurses, and electricians. Our children will have their own families, their own dreams, and inherit the struggles we failed to address. In this moment, we as a community must ask ourselves, how are the children? And the sad […]
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