by Stacy M. Brown NNPA News Wire Contributing Writer Publishers and leaders from the National Newspaper Publishers Association (NNPA), a trade group of more than 200 Black-owned media companies, and from the 400-plus member National Association of Hispanic Publications (NAHP) recently held a historic three-day summit in Washington, D.C. that featured an all-star roster of […]
‘Here And Now’: Cuban-American Offers Perspectives On Normalized Relations
Lucia Nuñez Talks Implications Of Growing Contact With Cuba by Scott Gordon Wisconsin has about 3,564 residents of Cuban descent, about 0.1 percent of the state’s population, according to a 2014 estimate from the U.S. Census Bureau. However, thousands more than that passed through the state and stayed at Fort McCoy via the 1980 Mariel […]
Overture Center for the Arts 16/17 Season Announced
MADISON, Wis. – Overture announced its 2016/17 Broadway and Overture Presents season, which brings more than 100 performances to downtown Madison. The Broadway season: • Twelve years after it premiered in Madison, Andrew Lloyd Webber’s The Phantom of the Opera is back in Cameron Mackintosh’s new production and tour, which launched in 2013. The show […]
Veterans and Consumers of Color often Targeted for Fraud
by Charlene Crowell NNPA News Wire Columnist Although the former Corinthian Colleges, once one of the nation’s largest for-profit colleges, closed its doors last year, many of the problems incurred by its former students persist. The now-defunct college is the only questionable actor among for-profit colleges. To date, investigations, and lawsuits have focused on a […]
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Potentially Devastating: Why the Attack on Tenure at UW Matters
by Karma R. Chavez On March 10, the UW Board of Regents passed what I can only describe as extreme changes to System tenure policies. These policies, much to the contrary of the public statements of the Board and some campus administrators, will have potentially devastating impacts on the UW. After tenure protections and shared […]
NFTE Turns Inner-City Youths into Black Entrepreneurs, Despite Persistent Challenges
by Curtis Bunn Urban News Service “My ethnicity has been empowering and encouraging for my community,” she says. “I am the first African-American balloon artist that most children in the region have seen, especially inner-city African- American children. Oftentimes, people will book me because of my color and age. Sometimes, I am even hired to […]
Getting your Zzz’s: Healthy sleep habits add up to better overall health
Many Americans skimp on sleep thinking there’s no harm in missing a few hours here or there to maximize hours spent working or having fun. But, Dean and St. Mary’s Hospital Neurologist Dr. Mandira N. Mehra says routinely missing sleep causes a sleep debt, which has serious effects. “Sleep is not a luxury, it’s a […]
Was it Civil Rights or a Movement?
by Avis Thomas-Lester Urban News Service They fought for integration, equal education and voter registration. There were Freedom Rides, a march on Washington and mayhem on Selma’s Edmund Pettus Bridge. There were sit-ins, brutal attacks and stands against violence. In the end, freedom was achieved – at least in part. “There is no question that […]
Ntozake Shange and Toni Cade Bambara: Pioneers of Black Feminist Cultural Production
Women’s History Profiles By Brianna Rae Ntozake Shange Best known for her award-winning play for colored girls who have considered suicide / when the rainbow is enuf, Ntozake Shange is a Black feminist playwright, poet, and novelist. Born Paulette L. Williams on October 18, 1948, Shange was born in Trenton, New Jersey into a family […]
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Open Letter Addressing Racist Incidents at UW
by Dr. Karma R. Chavez Dear Dean Berquam and Chancellor Blank, I am writing to you about the racist incidents that have happened in the last several days on this campus, one against a Native American elder, and the second where a student spat in the face of another student in the UW First Wave […]
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