By James Clingman NNPA Newswire Columnist Black folks in America have been so successfully programmed that many of us are still psychologically enslaved to the point that we truly believe we have “made it” when we have reached a certain financial plateau or when we have attained a certain position or title. Far too many […]
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Madison Police Give Nonviolent Drug Offenders Choice: Arrest Or Treatment
Additional Recovery Initiative To Start As Soon As January By Shamane Mills The Madison Police Department has received a three-year, $700,000 federal “smart policing” grant to try a new way to deal with nonviolent drug offenders who commit low-level crimes. Rather than arrest, drug users will be given a chance to get treatment. The heroin […]
Madison Schools Seek To Narrow Achievement Gap With New Early Childhood Zone
North Side Schools Offer Family Support To Boost Early Learning By Shamane Mills Madison-area schools are expanding an effort to narrow the achievement gap between students who are well off and those who aren’t. Typically, the disparity in grades breaks down along racial lines. In 2013, Leopold Elementary in Madison was the first to give […]
Fight for Daughter Reveals Plight of Unwed Dads
By Grant Clark Urban News Service Christopher Emanuel puts his heart into the role of do-it-all dad with his active, 2-year-old daughter, Skylar. As a 26-year-old single father, raising a toddler can sometimes be a heavy lift. But the customer-relations specialist from Aiken, S.C., claims to take his paternal duties in stride – from cooking […]
Once-Hot Artists’ Palettes Stay Cool Through Campaign 2016
By Eric Easter “If I’m 100 percent honest, I’ve tried hard to make a Hillary poster, but I can’t figure out where to start,” says Los Angeles-based graphic artist Charles White. “There’s no strong word or theme that sparks my imagination.” White is one of many creators who say that the 2016 race between Hillary […]
Part II: Oakhill Kids’ Garden Network Fosters Healing and Restorative Practices, Despite Its Walls
By Jacklin Bolduan “Wisconsin’s state motto is ‘Forward.’ That is what is happening here, we are going forward. Wisconsin has a long history of my type of conservatives, those men and women who are into true conservation of this beautiful state’s natural resources. As the birthplace of ‘Earth Day’ this is exactly the type of […]
Part I: Oakhill Kids’ Garden Network Fosters Healing and Restorative Practices, Despite Its Walls
By Jacklin Bolduan Jason Garlynd heads out to the greenhouse from his office at the Oakhill Correctional Institution, a minimum security prison just outside of Madison in Oregon, WI. It’s the middle of the growing season for Garlynd and the men who are a part of the Horticulture Training Program, one Garlynd has been building […]
New Report Shows State and Local Governments Spend More on Incarceration than Education
By Karen Stokes The Milwaukee Courier A new report from the U. S. Department of Education revealed that the majority of state and local governments are investing more money on prison than on education. The report, Trends in State and Local Expenditures on Corrections and Education, released on July 7, showed that on the average, […]
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NNPA Demands Federal Prosecutor Investigate Racially-Motivated Police Shootings
By Dr. Benjamin F. Chavis Today, the National Newspaper Publishers Association (NNPA), the nation’s largest trade association of African American-owned newspapers and media companies, issued an urgent call and demand that President Barack H. Obama and U.S Attorney General Loretta Lynch appoint a Special Federal Prosecutor in the wake of the police killings of Alton […]
One Place. Two Years. 100 Stories.
Gun Violence is a crisis in Milwaukee which is why United Way is partnering with 371 Productions, WUWM 89.7 – Milwaukee Public Radio, WNOV 860 AM – The Voice and an array of other community organizations to help give a voice this issues and amplify efforts to solve it. On June 15th Precious Lives, a […]
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