BlackEconomics.org® At the outset of certain lectures, we have enquired of the audience: “What is the most important ‘thing’ in the universe?” While we have received a multiplicity of answers, we always steer the audience back to what we view as the correct answer: “Knowledge!” Why knowledge? Because it is fundamental. You may have all […]
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Tennessee Is Our New Old Normal
Legislatively Speaking By Senator Lena C. Taylor Race. Power. Money. Writer and philosopher George Santayana said “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” Well, it seems like Tennessee’s Republican state legislators are either too indolent, oblivious, or willfully resistant to understanding the state’s mistakes of old. Some of those errors include […]
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Dear Republicans, Your Chickens Are Coming Home to Roost
By LaKeshia N. Myers There are some days when I want to just, “throw it all away” and start over—the world that is. Because its too much; and after this week, its safe to say Republicans have lost their damned minds. And collectively (and ideologically) the deep end is where they reside. If you don’t […]
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Self-Enslavement: The Psychoeconomics of Sports Games
BlackEconomics.org® Prof. John Nash, Jr. shared the Sveriges Riksbank (Nobel) Prize for Economics in 1994 for his work on the theory of strategic games. You may have seen the related 2001 biopic entitled, A Beautiful Mind. Economists use Prof. Nash’s theory to analyze a wide range of economic situations. The closest most persons come to […]
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The April 4 Election for Wisconsin Supreme Court Represents a Clear Choice
Vote For Judge Janet Protasiewicz By Milwaukee Courier Staff This is an election that has been nationally-watched, and drawn record spending. It’s an election that has already brought out hundreds of thousands of Wisconsinites to vote early. And with the court split 4-3 in favor of so-called “conservative” justices, it is an election that will […]
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Why do we Need to Vote
African Americans and women have always fought to vote. There’s been a long history of preventing people of color from voting. African Americans knew that the inability to vote resulted in economic, political, and social harm to themselves, their families, and their communities. Originally under the Constitution, only white male citizens over the age of […]
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Medicare Advantage Works for African American Seniors. Now is the Time to Protect It.
By Betty Speed Health care access continues to be an important issue across Wisconsin’s Black communities. As the cost of care continues to rise, it has become increasingly important that we have options that allow us to access quality and affordable health care. That is why I am a supporter of Medicare Advantage, a program […]
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Wisconsin Voters Continue to Learn More About Supreme Court Candidate Dan Kelly’s Ties to GOP Extremists
By Milwaukee Courier Staff On Thursday, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported that Kelly appeared at an event headlined by anti-abortion extremist Matthew Trewhella. During his speech in St. Croix County, Trewhella compared public health guidance during the COVID pandemic to the Holocaust. Trewhella has previously said the murder of an anti-abortion provider was “justifiable homicide.” […]
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Riots: The American Way
By LaKeshia N. Myers “A riot is the language of the unheard. And what is it America has failed to hear? It has failed to hear that the plight of the negro poor has worsened over the last twelve or fifteen years. It has failed to hear that the promises of freedom and justice have […]
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The Wisconsin Supreme Court is Not for Sale
By Milwaukee Courier Staff Reporting continues to emerge showing deep financial ties between Wisconsin Supreme Court candidate Dan Kelly’s and extreme right-wing special interest groups that have long advanced Republican causes in court. Kelly already had long-established ties to the far-right fringe through his legal work for the anti-abortion group Wisconsin Right to Life and […]
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