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Historic Black Press Week Captivates D.C.

April 1, 2016

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 […]

Popular Interests In This Article: Benjamin Chavis, NAHP, National Association of Hispanic Publications, National Newspaper Publishers Association, NNPA, Stacy M. Brown

‘Here And Now’: Cuban-American Offers Perspectives On Normalized Relations

April 1, 2016

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 […]

Popular Interests In This Article: Centro Hispano, Lucia Nuñez, Madison College, Scott Gordon

Overture Center for the Arts 16/17 Season Announced

April 1, 2016

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 […]

Popular Interests In This Article: Beautiful - The Carole King Musical, Broadway Shows, Cabaret, Jersey Boys, Overture Center for the Arts, Phantom of the Opera, The Book of Mormon, The Illusionists

Veterans and Consumers of Color often Targeted for Fraud

April 1, 2016

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 […]

Popular Interests In This Article: Charlene Crowell, Department of Veterans Affairs, Pell Grants, Student Loans, Title IV

EXCEPT WHERE INDICATED, THE OPINIONS EXPRESSED ON THIS PAGE ARE NOT NECESSARILY THOSE OF THE MADISON TIMES

Potentially Devastating: Why the Attack on Tenure at UW Matters

April 1, 2016

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 […]

Popular Interests In This Article: Karma R. Chavez

NFTE Turns Inner-City Youths into Black Entrepreneurs, Despite Persistent Challenges

March 18, 2016

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 […]

Popular Interests In This Article: Curtis Bunn, Entrepreneurship, Network For Teaching Entrepreneurship, NFTE

Getting your Zzz’s: Healthy sleep habits add up to better overall health

March 18, 2016

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 […]

Popular Interests In This Article: Mandira N. Mehra, Sleep, Sleep Debt, Sleep Deprivation

Was it Civil Rights or a Movement?

March 18, 2016

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 […]

Popular Interests In This Article: Avis Thomas Lester, Civil Rights, Civil Rights Movement, Montogmery Bus Boycott

Ntozake Shange and Toni Cade Bambara: Pioneers of Black Feminist Cultural Production

March 18, 2016

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 […]

Popular Interests In This Article: Brianna Rae, Ntozake Shange, Toni Cade Bambara, Womens History Month

EXCEPT WHERE INDICATED, THE OPINIONS EXPRESSED ON THIS PAGE ARE NOT NECESSARILY THOSE OF THE MADISON TIMES

Open Letter Addressing Racist Incidents at UW

March 18, 2016

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 […]

Popular Interests In This Article: Karma R. Chavez

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