By Freddie Allen (Editor-in-Chief, NNPA Newswire) In the early morning hours of January 10, 1966, civil rights leader Vernon Dahmer Sr. was jolted from his sleep, as members of the Ku Klux Klan surrounded his house just north of Hattiesburg, Miss. Dahmer, a Black land-owner, had been actively working to register Blacks to vote and, […]
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Cracked, Packed, or Hijacked
Legislatively Speaking By Senator, Lena C. Taylor Attempts to Suppress Black Voter Participation IS Real A few days ago, a group of Milwaukee residents gathered to provide personal stories of voting challenges suffered since Governor Scott Walker and Republican state legislators implemented Wisconsin’s voter ID laws. Often described as some of the strictest voter laws […]
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Kavanaugh and Republican Control of the Wisconsin Legislature
By Matthew Koch Educational background, Vanderbilt University Department of Political Science, Nashville TN MA, PhD candidate August 2010 – Present ● Conducted research concentrating on political theory, international relations and public law • Researched differing definitions of Justice in Western and Islamic legal traditions • Completed full core graduate course load in econometrics and statistics […]
The Black Press Challenges Fake News
By Lauren Poteat As Donald Trump’s persistent “fake news” rhetoric continues to fester in the media, Black publishers across the nation, recently took charge of the conversation, giving way to a special forum entitled “Black Press vs. Fake News.” The forum took place during the National Newspaper Publishers Association’s (NNPA) annual convention. Dorothy Leavell, the […]
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Racial Divides Found in Student Loan Defaults
Unsustainable Debt Trajectory Needs to Be Managed By Charlene Crowell With 44 million consumers owing student debt that now reaches $1.5 trillion and still climbing, a lot of people want to better understand how and why this unsustainable debt trajectory can be better managed. For Black consumers who typically have less family wealth than other […]
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It’s Time for Blacks to Pull the Trigger on Politics
By Jeffrey L. Boney (NNPA Newswire Contributor) How often do we hear messages about the amount of money Black people spend every year as consumers? In a recent report by Nielsen titled, “Black Dollars Matter: The Sales Impact of Black Consumers,” the message was once again highlighted: While African Americans make up just 14 percent […]
Patients, Health Professionals Observe World Sickle Cell Day
By Stacy M. Brown (NNPA Newswire Contributor) It’s been 100 years since sickle cell disease (SCD), a hereditary blood disorder, was first discovered. And, according to health experts, it’s no secret that an alarming number of children and adolescence have died, and the condition remained in the province of pediatrics. Known as “the silent killer,” […]
Sen. Kamala Harris Supports Baldwin’s Re-Election
By Mrinal Gokhale California Sen. Kamala Harris visited Milwaukee to support Sen. Tammy Baldwin’s possible re-election at a rally in the Italian Community Center Ballroom in Downtown Milwaukee. Harris, who has served as California Senator since 2017, is the only African-American female in Senate. There have been rumors that Harris is possibly running for president, […]
Wisconsin Residents Raise Awareness of Gun Violence
By Ana Martinez-Ortiz Last week, people around the nation donned orange to raise awareness of gun violence. The Wear Orange campaign began several years ago after the death of Hadiya Pendleton, who at 15-years-old was shot and killed in Chicago. Pendleton’s tragic death has become the face of a movement that hopes to change gun […]
Is the NFL’s New National Anthem Policy Legal?
By Lauren Victoria Burke (NNPA Newswire Contributor) Protesters held a rally in front of the National Football League’s New York City headquarters on May 25 after the league announced new rules that punish players who don’t stand for the national anthem. Tamika Mallory said that the NFL owners were acting as a “proxy for a […]
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